Journey of a Million Miles

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Woke up this morning to find the lawn all white. It snowed last night, marking the beginning of an extremely cold weekend. As usual, I was staring into the computer screen, bored, when I noticed that the snowflakes are falling a little differently today. Found that the flakes are much lighter and prettier today, so took the opportunity to try shoot some flakes again! Check'em out!

Y0n6Z 2:52 AM |

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Bored. Not too sure what to do these days. Im done with the city. Only waiting to go to the nature parks. Weather forecasts says the temperature will drop till -20'c with a windchill of -30'c next week. Not good. Time to dig in tight and hang on! Ill only update here with my weekend pics sometime later. Was fooling around with my pics in Black & White mode. Tell me what u think of it! =D

Winter Comes

Far From Home

Broken

Y0n6Z 1:03 PM |

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Got 3 days of sunshine this week so thought its a real waste if I didnt get out. Spent one of the mornings at Confederation Park again looking for pics to take. Ventured to the city for the past 2 days. Thats something that I ain't really interested in but sure beats staying at home doing nothing and let the good weather pass by. Checked out their malls. Nothing much, just boutiques, boutiques and more boutiques. I mean, how different can a mall be? The only one difference I noticed is that most of the malls are interconnected by a skybridge so people need not be exposed to the cold, heat, snow or rain when they want to go to the next building.

Shadows
Over Ice

Water
Ducks

Journey to
the End

Evening
Rail

Frames of
the World

The only place of interest I checked out downtown (today) is the Calgary tower which is 525 feet high, located downtown. Theres this glass floor up on top of it. Was feeling a little numb stading right on it. But it was great. Theres thsi crazy China woman whos even jumping and stomping on the glass floor. Geez! Later went to an art exhibition nearby which I heard on Tv last night. Theres a few pieces of artworks thats quite nice, which Id really buy if I've had the cash. Spent quite a while there and I actually did buy something, my first item tht I splurged on!

East
Side

Roof
Labels

West
Side

I'm
Flying!

Calgary Tower
Glass Floor

Followed my uncle down to Bows Park yesterday evening. He had some work to do near the area so he left me his car to drive around the area. Good thing theres no police around, otherwise I'd be really screwed if caught driving without a proper license. Since we reached the park pretty late during the day (5pm is considered late as 5pm sky here is equivalent to our 7pm sky in KL!) I had nothing much to shoot besides the railway next to it. Went real close to a train on idle nearby so I was pretty nervous while taking pics right next to it. Well, tomorrows the weekend once again! hope I would be going out to some nature trails again. Was invited over to my 2nd uncles house to see how chirstmas decorations go about here. Well, I see how things go.

Canadian Pacific Rail

Calgary Tower

Y0n6Z 8:44 AM |

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The weather has been miserable for the past one week! Nothing but cloudy misty skies and snow. Result? Crappy dull pics! I want blue skies dammit! Realised I havent updated for the past one week. What was I doing? Mostly staying indoors as theres almost nowhere else to go. The parks here are beginning to lose my interest as they're always white. The weather didnt helped either. Only one day turned out fine which I had a chance to go out tobogganing with my uncles family at Confederation Park.

Cousins Tobogganing	Uncle Tobogganing	Solo Driver	Flipping Over	Me Climbing up
Alone .	White Park	Catching Snow	Catching Snow	008, The Forgotten Agent

Stayed over at another uncles place over the weekend. There I got treated with the fully western meals which I think I may take time to get used to it. First it was the Cheese Fondie with Veggies and next was the spagetti squash. Everything fully vegetarian although they're not vegetarians. Went out with my cousins and friends with their usual acitivity. Clubbing! I guess thats what them people always do when they get out. In a period of 2 weeks, I've already went out clubbing for almost 10 times! Back home, I only do this about once or twice in every two months. Went off to the nature parks again during the weekend. As said earlier, weather was crappy so nothing much to show. Kananaskis is a real nice place to be. Scenic. The other place is Fish Creek, located very near my 2nd uncles place. Its one huge park near the city, about 9km in stretch. Quite nice too..and it was a good thing that the weather lightened up a bit on that day.

Vege Cheese Fondue	Dinner Time!	Heavy Snow over Bridge	River at Fish Creek	Sharp Ice
Icicles .	Frozen .	Sunset .	A River Flows By	Last Bit of Ice

Pine Forest at Kananaskis	Fish Creek
Pine Forests Rocky Mountains
First Light
Pine Forests Rocky Mountains

Y0n6Z 2:47 AM |

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Days are getting boring, and its only been a week! Most of the time I spend are indoors staring at the pc. Thank goodness there is a pc, otherwise i'll be bored to death by now! There getting less and less place for me to go check out. There is still a city down the road which I still havent really checked out but I was thinking, no point, Im broke. Felt really pointless going down there, seeing all the things that you wish to get but you're all broke. Rather stay home than find myself drolling over the glass pane on some item. Wanted to get a job but it ain't easy. I need a work permit! And the more I spent, the more I'm furthur from my goal, getting a dSLR cam here. Sigh. Temperature these days are getting awrmer, which is good! I could last longer outside! But bye bye snow. The fields are clearing up, getting green. Amazing to see how the field is once all covered up with snow and now green all over.

After Sunshine	Snowing in the backyard
Before sunshine	Snowflake on my glove

Was out of the house cuz it is snowing! Weather here can change really fast! Was bright and snny this morning and in a matter of hours, the weather changed to a dull cloudy sky before it started snowing. Its a nice experience seeing all these. Tried to look for snowflakes. They're not that easy to catch. Took me a while to even find one perfect snowflake. And it aint as big as what you see in the pictures. Its real tiny. What you see in the pictures are shots of snowflakes shot with a super macro lens. All the while trying to get a picture of it, my fingers got so frozen I had to run into the house to thaw my fingers up.

Y0n6Z 6:51 AM |