Journey of a Million Miles

Friday, December 29, 2006

Feeling a little lazy since the 14th. No mood to update. So what has happened since then? Besides having a nasty experience, hmm.. Well, I have been dropping by at 3 different parts of Fish Creek Park photo shooting. Cant really recall the name of the place where I first dropped by. (Pics 1. to 4.) All I know is that is a small section of this huge provincial park. There wasn't much to shoot around there as there wasnt really anything that stands out and worth a photo. Well at least I got to shoot the skies for the sunset. Remembered seeing a couple of deers around the area but my camera aint designed for wildlife shooting, so not worth a shot. Wished I had tele-lens then.

Holding
the Sun

Evening
Skies

Till The
Sun Go Down

Red Breasted
Nuthatch

White Breasted
Nuthatch

My 2nd drop by in Fish Creek Park was at Bebo grove. (Pics 7. to 10.) Weather was really cold then. To make conditions worse, the wind was blowing so it felt even colder. The cold made my ears hurt so much then, I couldve sworn I dropped them on the ground. Had to borrow my aunts white coloured tuque to go around. Bet I looked strange in that tuque. Weather then was perfect! However, the conditions around aint so perfect as Bebo Grove was located in a valley with little sunlight. As of that, most of my shots of the scenery turned out to be rather dark.

A
Slanted Tree

Bebo
Grove

Frosty
Was Here

A Building
Stands

To
The Hills!

The latest drop by in the park was at Glennmore field. The weather was initially bad then with heavy dark clouds overhead. I was just about to give up looking for scenes when the sun began to set and gave me a good photo opportunity. Experimented wiith different white balancing effects on sunset. Was so obsessed with shooting I didnt realise my uncle was trying to call me as the phone I borrowed from him was set to silent mode. It got him and the rest of his family worried thinking that I had gotten lost in the huge park. Well, at least Im back now.

Follow
The Leader

Trails
of Snow

Isolated
.

Sunset Across
the Field

Sunset
(Test 1)

Sunset
(Test 2)

Christmas came and went recently. It was a white but not so white chistmas for me since it wasnt snowing on the day of christmas itself. It only snowed 2 days later. It was a nice and different experience for me here since Christmas was a really big thing back home. Got a couple of presents, a pc game, a bottle of alcohol, a cap and shirt, a camera bad, a photo book and 60CAD. =D

A
Blue Sunset

Skies
of Jupiter

Closing
Time

The Land
Guardian

Presents!
=D

Christmas
Tree

Tall Giants,
Bebo Grove

Line of Trees
Bebo Grove

A little video I took during one of my visits to Fish Creek Park.

Y0n6Z 11:59 AM |

Monday, December 25, 2006

Had my 1st experience of social issues here in Calgary, Canada. Racism. I wasn't expecting any until i learnt, heard, watched and in fact lived it. It was only before the night of christmas eve before I learnt that this has been going on. Heres 2 local news clip uploaded on youtube on how bad the problem is here. Clip 1 Racism Reborn Part 1 Clip 2 Racism Reborn Part 2

Now Im not saying Canada or Canadians or Calgarians are bad. Its just my pure bad luck running into a couple of bad apples. This experience has certainly made me reconsider if I want to stay and work in Canada.

Y0n6Z 11:32 AM |

Thursday, December 14, 2006

I've got too much free time on mah hands! Heres wht I did.

Mini
Me!
.

David
vs
Goliath (V.1)

David
vs
Goliath(V.2)

A salad
I made
.

Looks
good?
.

Hungry?
.
.

And heres wht I found out. I suck at food photography! NO more of these. Yes?

Y0n6Z 11:21 AM |

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

I finally converted to submitted to Firefox! Or at least partially. Earlier, I was wondering why my Deviantart Page wouldn't function properly. Found out that the admins had updated it and the page would require a more up to date browser to run it properly. This means I had to update the current IE6. Now the problem is em smart microsoft fuckers made it necessary to validate Windows before installation. This windows here, I doubt its genuine, meaning no update to IE7! Thus had to start using Firefox.

Having installed firefox, my D.Art page finally worked properly. However, I encountered something which is much to my dismay. My blog is NOT firefox compatible! The whole layout is like... ojipala, crap! Now should I redesign the layout to be firefox friendly or leave it being IE friendly? This is not the end of it..my music box in friendster barely works under firefox..but works fine with IE. Speaking of friendster, dunno wht the admis are up to but they changed the layout again! Now Ill have to alter some tricky codes for it to fit. Jst great! Ill leave it as it is. Couldnt be bothered for now. As for the IE vs Firefox, hmm..use both...depending on wht site im opening.

Y0n6Z 3:00 PM |

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Looking at my pictures, it seems and feels like I havent captured much of how Calgary looks like. With the help of being bored and the point I mentioned earlier, I had made myself go out to capture more sights of Calgary city. Shooting cityscapes and scenes are something which I dont think I'm good at, but at least I tried and had kept me busy!

Early
Morning

Late
Morning

Link
to City

At Prince
Island Park

The 1st
Sucker (Blur)

Spent 2 days going around the city snapping here and there. Spent the enire day of both days capturing shots from early morning before sunrise till late evening after sunset. Its a lovely sight overlooking the city during these 'magic hours' from a nearby hill. Wonder if I can get a smilar spot on a hill over looking the city in KL under extremely clear, ie hazeless not cloudless, skies.

The
1st Sucker

The
2nd Sucker

The 2nd
Sucker Again

The
3rd Sucker

The
4th Sucker

Wile E Coyote
in City?

Each day Id be waitng on the hill for the sunrise before heading down to an island next to the city. YES! Its an island alright. The place is a piece of land right in the middle of the river which flows by the city and have been converted into a park. Prince Island Park they call it. Its a nice place to have a walk, a brief moment away from the busy city streets. Theres planty of wildlife too, ducks, squirrels, birds and even coyotes, though I havent seen one. The animals here are really protected and I believe, are so accustomed to the presence of humans around, they arent afraid of you at all. Stretch out your hand and you'll get birds and squirrels approaching you. I believe in Malaysia, these animals would probably in the pot or in the cage for sell by now. Heh heh! Had fun fooling these poor suckers. Since I have no animal food around, I picked up a piece of dried leaf and shred it into small pieces and left them on my palm. A few birds fell for the trick and flew right onto my hand. Later they got smarter so I had to sacrifice a bit of my chocolate bar to get them coming back. The squirrels were suckers too! Found an empty peanut shell and used it as bait. They fell for it too.

Park
Bridge

The
Great Building

Heaevn Behind
the Buildings?

Windmill
(Take 1)

Windmill
(Take 2)

Windmill
(Take 3)

Close by to the Island is the EauClaire market where theres plenty of food stalls in it. Its usually more happening during summer with more stalls outside. Didnt take any pic of it since it..err..has no photographic value? The building is nice but the vehicles parked all around it really spoils the scene so didnt bother. Instead, took pics of the windmill nearby .

The
Tower

Stephen's
Avenue

Hotdog
Stall

City
Rail

Statues
.

Deeper in the city, I wasnt too sure of what to take. So most pics taken are 'main hantam' case. Most of the pics are taken around the Olympic Plaza and Stephen Avenue, thats wheres the most scenic part inside the city. Didnt post much of the pics here. In fact, too lazy to figure out the html codes to arrange the pics. Ill later upload them onto the flash slide player below. Here's a small clip of one of the sucker in action furthur.

Calgary Tower	Sunrise, Calgary	The City Hall
	3/4 Day
	Sunset,Calgary

Y0n6Z 6:41 AM |