110: Spring is bustin' out

Shot out my backdoor. Complete snapshot. Quick PP so I know it looks odd. Oh well.

109: Me II

So, way back when it was still cold and there was snow and ice all over the place, I had mentioned the idea of doing and on again off again project of sort of self portraits of me sitting in a chair in random places.

Well, this is one more for the series, though in a not terribly creative place. Don't worry, I have some better ideas!

I now feel like I can resume this PAD with a fresh eye and new start now that the bulk of my finals are done. I have one more one Tuesday, and as you can see, I am studying for it.

While in NY, I picked up a remote trigger for my camera, and can I just say it is REALLY COOL! No more running back and forth in the ten second alotted timer time! No more prefocusing on something, switching it to manual focus, and then pushing the shutter! And if you're wondering, it's in my right hand.

Winter is officially over as I was able to wear sandels to all three of my exams.

About the picture: I apologize for the blown out highlights on the right side of the picture. I had the sun on my left, and the picture was taken out my front door hallway.

I have to say it's nice to take pictures again :-)

Soon...

Almost done...
Last of three in a row in tomorrow... well, later today.

I have one on Tuesday, but the killer was this stretch
Physics on Tuesday, Chemistry on Wed, and Bio on Thursday

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving being back in school, but it's a lot of work studying for three exams abck to back. It's actually harder than having two exams on one day I am finding.

C'est la vie!

In retrospect, I think it's good I took a small (unplanned) break from photography. I think I'll get back into it witha freash perspective, full of ideas of molecular biology and how to synthesize DNA :-)

106: Finals

Fooled you!

No pictures
I have three finals this week, and I'm barely going to be able to find time to shoot for Terry's MS bracketing tourny.

Will catch up after I slog my way through this weird stuff called science.

105: Reflection

I know, been there, done that, but I still think it's fun. From a walk that my boyfriend and I took yesterday. Was nice out, and I needed to get out and stretch my legs. I was getting cross eyed staring at circuits and DNA synthesis. Today it's raining. While I don't like rain, it does mean pretty flowers soon!

104: Hyacinth

Did I spell that right?

Ohmmmmmmmm...

103: Picking up the Notes

Get it? Get it? Sheet music with notes on it flying away... getting picked up?

Hehe

Thought of entering this as well, and didn't. Figured people wouldn't get it. Physics is calling me

... ohm's law.... B-fields.... RC circuits....

102: Together

Shot at central park. The coupls is actually chimping at a pciture on a digital camera. Had thought of using this for candid, but as was pointed out, there is nothing candid about it.

I can now recite to you hwo to name hydrocarbons, alkenes, and alkynes. I feel so smart!

101: Snapshot

So I was out looking for candids. Nothing great, so I will look forward to another sub average score, but at least I hold no allusions of grandeur :D Some cute kids playing on the McGill campus. It was gorgeous out. Even got to take my coat off! whoo!

100: Robin, and 100 days DONE!

Wow. I never thought I'd actually make it to 100 days. Granted, I'm not following the 'true' spirit in taking one picture every day, but I am uploading once a day (or so...), and I have to say, I'm learning a lot with this project.

Makes up for my crappy scores over at DPC. I'm developing a love/hate relationship with that site. I'm learning so much there, and have a great time, but it's sometimes frustrating trying to figure out what makes the voters there tick.

At least, with this blog, I get to post pretty pictures that I took, and that I like :D

So, one of the nice things about Central Park is there are a fair amount of mellow birds who are hanging out in the trees. Managed to not only change lens, but snap this shot before it flitted away. I'm not much a of a bird photographer, but I can see why people enjoy it so much.

There was another bird earlier that Steve (Pawdrix) and I saw, but from where I was shooting it just kept giving me it's nice feathery behind. This one was a bit more cooperative.

I think I can send at least one of my winter coats to the dry cleaners... Shhh don't tell anyone, lest it dump 2 feet of snow sometime later this month! Like I said, Happy Spring!

99: Buds

Seeing this stuff makes me want to sing June is Bustin Out All Over, but it's not June, and I can't sing. Plus, June is more a flower month than a tree and bush bud month.

On second thought, never mind!

98: Sunbasking

Cute little turtles that Pawdrix found. I think if there is reincarnation, I'll be a turtle. Do nothing but lay on a rock and sunbathe.... But then I'd have to deal with polluted waters and messed up ecosystems. Hmm, never mind. Guess that means I (as I am now) better hurry up and work on protecting ecosystems :-)

97: Spring is in the Air

Central Park this weekend. This was actually taken on Sunday, a beautiful sunny day to take pictures. Went out shooting with Pawdrix. Had a nice time shooting stuff before I went to go see The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee, a wonderful, Tony award winning musical on Broadway. Highly recommend it!

It was nice to see spring since it's greener in NY than it is in montreal.

96: Untitled

Happy Spring!

95: Balance

More rehersal shots. Don't think I got a good shot of this during the show. Oh well. Still going through them.

Off to study

94: Rehearsal

I realized I could call one of these rehearsal after I posted the other one, so here you go :-)

93: Untitled

From a rehearsal I shot

92: Untitled

91: Faceless

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90: Busker

Buskers in a metro station in Montreal. I am so ashamed, I took pictures, and when the train came, I realized I had no money on me. I could have thrown them plastic, but I don't think they would have appreciated that. They were doing a nice rendition of Tears in Heaven. I promise to give them money next time I see them! I gelt so bad :(

89: Shadow Play

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88: Last of the studio shots (For real!)

Ok, Last few at the request of some friends :-)

Pumpkin/carrot top person is Callye this time, and one more of Jean Seb. This pose was actually inspired from that funny can you touch your toes thread. Except when he touchs his toes, it didn't really look like anything, so I had him try some other things and I liked this one.

So there you go! Fun stuff, and we can't wait to get back into the studio!

Thanks for the feedback!

87: Callye

This is Callye when she gets mad. Joking! We were goofing off with fanning to get the hair so we were trying different stuff. Ok, this will be the last studio shot since I think I've bored everyone. :-)

My printer died yesterday. It's ridiculous how dependent I am on it as a student. *sigh*

86: Jean-Sebastien

Jean-Seb again, but this time you get to see him :) Did a bit of the draganizer action on this, because I thought it would be appropriate, and I'm happy with the result. I'm not sure about the shadow, but that's learning about the studio lgiht set up.

85: Jean Sebastian

Ok, I promise to post a real picture of him tomorrow :) We had way to much fun goofing off with this!

84: John and Callye

So remember how I said I get to use a studio since I am a member of my university's photo society? Finally got in there. Wow was it fun! Wow is there a lot to learn!! The main thing I've noticed is the vignetting, which you can see in this picture, and almost all the others I took. We had a great time, and cannot wait to get back in there! These are my friends, John and Callye. You'll meet my other friend tomorrow

83: On Assignment

On assignment for one of the school papers today.

I did two others, and one got me into a comedy show that normally cost $25. It was a comedy showdown between Toronto comedians and Montreal comedians. I only stayed for the first Montreal, and first Toronto comedian, but they were both very funny. I also got a bit of the 'I'm a journalist and can go into the show just to take pictures!' I would have had no problem paying, but as money is not as abundant as I would like, going to laugh for a little bit in exchange for shooting some pics was a nice deal.

82: Medals

This was taken as a favour for my boyfriend's wine blog (linkie on the right). It's one of the few times we're tasting completely different things in the same wine. I'm tasting fruit jam (blackberry mostly) and he's tasting tobacco.

I just emailed the picture to him, so he should be posting soon.

Oh yes, and he thinks this wine is seriously overrated and that one should not trust the medals listed on the label!

Cheers!

81: MacDonald Engineering Building

Not much else to say. One of the buildings on campus

79: more river

Ok, blogger is working now!

78: Hopscotch

As always, by boyfriend decided he had to see hwo thick the ice was, even though it had started to break up. It was still quite thick in most places, so he was able to cross the river

77: Breaking Up

So even though it was well below freezing, there have been a few spells warm enough to start the breaking up of the ice on the river.

Just some fun wide angle stuff, taken with the fish eye. I'm really starting to like this lens! I forgot to take some jpegs, and I have no raw covnersion software, and I'm on dial-up, so I didn't feel like waiting for RAW essientials to download

76: St Paddy's Day

So this marks my getting caught up on my PAD. Next step will to get some comments onto those who have been morally supporting me through my mideterms. Thanks guys!

I went to a drop-in CV (resume) clinic today, and while I was waiting, what I think was the on campus day care kids dropped by. They had obviously spent the morning making green birron things and the hats and stuff, and we're doing a little mini parade through the various offices in the building. They'd stop and wave their little green streamers and say Happy St. Patrick's Day

As they were leaving, they didn't do much smiling, but they did do a lot of staring. I'm assuming they were staring at my fabulous camera :D

They are a little on the fuzzy side because this was indoors, and I didn't want to use the flash on them. Fixed these up in raw which made a huge difference.

While I'm not a supporter of commercialized holidays, especially ones like Valentine's Day, I will support St. Paddy's Day. Why? How many holidays are out there where you are expected to go out and drink beer? That being said, have a good time day, drink responsibly, and DO NOT drink and drive. Take a cab. Please!!!

And the final thought for the day courtesy of the comics page today: If you drink green beer, where does all the green go when it comes out the other end?

75: Fun with fish-eyes

I lent my 16mm Zenitar fish eye to a friend who took it to Europe for 2 1/2 weeks. His pictures with it were awesome, and I realized I needed to start palying with it more as I've hardly ever used. I bought it this past summer of DrNick (thanks Doc!), and decided today I'd try some stuff with it.

So, here are a few results. I'm realizing I don't think I'll be able to use it much for anything close up because of the manual focus. I have a hard time determing what is in focus when it's a close up. I've tried a few times and everything ends up fuzzy. Maybe if I get one of those magnifying things for the eye piece, it will help. Other than that, I will stick to things that I can put the focus on infinity.

These were taken on McGill campus.

74: Balance and Play

So this is the photo contest I entered at my university. The themes were balance and play. I submitted three, and all three were selected for display. Judging hasn't happened yet, or if it has, then I didn't win anything. These are displayed in the walkway between two of our major libraries. Lots of people looking at them, which is fun. Our names aren't on them, but it's still fun to know people stop and look at the pictures. Just in case some McGill folks look at this, I'll refrain from pointing out which ones are mine, but those of you who know my stuff should be able to find at least one of them ;-)

73: Self-Portrait

:P

This is what I look like, and my next midterm isn't until Thursday.

I don't know where I got this picture from, but if this is someone's material, and you are that someone or you know that someone, please let me know so I can give due credit, or if need be, remove it.

72: Rant

Ok, A day late and a dollar short, and not even a picture. Instead, I am going to rant and rave over how much I hate multiple choice tests. I hate hate hate hate them. They are screwing me up, even though I know the information. I'm so annoyed I can't be bothered to even find an old picture to put up. Sorry

ARGH

71: Since I never re-posted it...

Well, since I messed up yesterday, might as well post an old shot I took down to dubmit and then never re-posted it. This is from the burst of colour challenge. I called this poof! No, it's not someone's hair, as someone asked, it's a very cozy soft scarf. I tend to get cold easily, so this winter, it's been a great way for me to stay warm. Fuzzy pink scarf for my neck and fuzzy cute panda slippers for my feet. Now if only warm fuzzy things would help me solve acid base titration questions.

70: Challenge Entry warning!! (Merlin)

So this is my square crop entry. I'm posting 20 minutes before turnover. Sue me :-P

Edit: Whoops! MattO was kind enough to point out that I am a day early with rollover. Sorry about that. This is what chemistry does to your brain folks!

I really liked this picture. I know his left side was not lit, but this was taken as a sort of snapshot picture. I'm posting the original pretty much converted straight out of the RAW photo. I now realize I could have maybe selected out the eye and tried to lighten it up. Next time. I also did a run through neat image, but I toned it way down because I kept losing the detail of the hair. e301 left a great comment on my picture, and I thank him for that. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE RAW?

That being said, can I tell you how sick I am of entropy and acid base titrations?
I did take pictures today, but they were for the speed challenge. I will post when it's over

69: Solitary

Ok, so, not as interesting composition wise for me, but no person in the picture this time. And this was taken facing the other way.

I'm thinking I'm going to be to stuffed full of equilibrium constants and entropy that I'll need a break and go out and shoot some stuff this weekend

It is spring at last. Above zero rain, so no freezing rain, which meant no ice skating on the streets! whoohoo! Amazing what will excite you when you're sick of winter and ready for some green and pretty flowers. Still a month away from that, but this at least provides a tiny glimmer of hope.

Having said that, we'll probably get one of those huge blizzards in April like we did a few years back. Would make for fun pictures!!

68: Approaching

So this picture was taken at the same time as the self portrait I did a while back. My boyfriend had gone for a walk on the river on the other side, and crossed back over and was coming back towards me. I've submitted this to a geopgraphy photo contest at my university, so I don't think anything will happen with it, but I liked the picture.

Back to acid bases, equilibrium and Le Chatelier's Principle!

67: Cleo

This is my friend's cat, Cleo. She was being a real poser, which is very rare. My friends said she's generally not very photogenic. Her left eye is a little squished, but I thought she looked cute in this

66: Carrots

Carrots. Need I say anything else?

I won't be commenting for a while. Tons of assignments and two midterms will be my priority. Will get back to commenting afterwards.

65: Ready for spring

Don't you hate it when you forget to change your ISO back when you've were shooting low light the alst time? This is 1600 iso ans I'm to lazy to try and clean it up. Sorry.

It's March, which means spring should be in teh air. It's not quite, but at least it's been sunny. I cannot wait for spring. So looking forward to it!

64: Challenge Entry

Ok, last time I did this, I said I'd post it, and I never got around to it. Hopefully this time I'll remember. Or maybe I'll make it my PAD in a week. We shall see. I'm hoping for a nice average 5.5 score on this on. I like the sqaure crop format, should be interesting.

63: Nice Lens!

So, if you ever want to try something interesting, do this. Watch some bad zombie movie. Not a good one like 28 Days or something, but some cliche, low budget one. Take your ipod or MP3 player or whatver, put on random, and use that as your soundtrack. Don't turn on the movie soundtrack. You'll be amazed at how you can still follow exactly what is happening, and the music makes it very funny.

Yes, that's what my friends and I did tonight. And I let me picture be taken. So that friend I mentioned in my profile who I've learnt a lot of photography stuff from? I'm holding his camera and lens. He and his wife are great friends of mine. We get together, drink lots of good wine, and laugh a lot. Like we did tonight!

62: Simplicity

Woohoo!! I don't have a midterm for a week and half! I calculated I hand wrote things for about seven hours today. Wrote a lab report, practice midterm, and a notes for a lecture, as well as the actual midterm.

I wrote my management midterm today: intro to financial accounting. The actual midterm itself wasn't to difficult, but it was sooo long. My prof was great. She told us to budget our time, and even if we weren't done, move on to the next problem. So I did this, and it was a life saver. A problem I could have easily spent the entire time on got its allotted time, and then I moved onto the other problems. Hopefully, this will maximize my points I receive. Crossed fingers.

So, this is one of those, miracle of raw pictures. This had a major blue tint to it, and with a little white balance, got this instead. I kind of like the colours reflected in the water. Makes it look like it was a fiery sunset or somthing.

So, now I"m back to doing nothing for the rest of the night. I'm entering a couple pictures for a photo contest on Monday. Looking forward to seeing the other entrants and what will happen!

61: Standing Out

If these had been people, I think I would have met the standing out challenge from a while back.

There was a workshop tonight that I wentto most of regarding studio use. I get acess to a studio at my school that includes three lights, 1 soft box, two umbrellas, a black or white backdrop, and a light meter. Needless to say, as soon as midterms are done, I cannot wait to hit that studio! I have a friend who will also be shooting with me, and I promise to show the results off. It's a whole different technique, so it's going to be a whole new learning curve, but one I'm looking forward to!

OK, now it's back to revenue recognition, generally accepted accounting principles, and the basic accounting equation. Assets = liabilities + shareholder's equity for those of you wondering what the equation is.

I'm not commenting as much as I'd like, but I will pick it up. I'm finding I like to go in spurts, so if you don't receive one, it doesn't mean I'm not looking!

60: Jing Yuan and Adam

This is Jing Yuanand Adam. Theya re really cool friends and fellow students who I met through the MRSA. The mature and re-entry student association had a little soiree tonight. It was lots of fun, but short since we all have miderms coming up, it was short and sweet

59: Attempting to mask a crappy picture of slippers

OK. Snapshot. Crappy picture. But I did take it today! Doing my presentation on greenhouse effect and global warming tomorrow for biology. First power point presentation. I feel so special now that I can use powerpoint!

58: Ice!

Just in under the line. I will try and shoot new stuff, but I have a presentation and a midterm this week. This is from when we had that amazing freezing rain that coated everything in ice. This is the river that I've taken many a picture from, but from a different place. We figured the river would be a pretty shot, and had a nice surprise with all the ice on the trees

57: Disclaimer: Challenge Outtake!

OK, so my disclaimer is this is an outtake. If you recognize my photo, feel free to pass it by and not vote. The only pictures I took today were for the challenge, so I apologize

The rat is from my dairy entry, and even with the white background, doesn't really show up well. Oh well.

So, I wanted to title this along the lines of, Hey Froggie, Nice Ride!
Or, Duckie! Like my ride?

So, tomorrow I got back to school. I procrastinated more than I wanted to, and didn't get as much work done as I could have, but I did get a good chunk done. Such is life!