It started out as a simple photo collection mission. Shawn is in Hong Kong, and asked if I had any pictures of the “Goddess of Democracy” statue that was erected on campus in memory of the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989. I didn’t have any photos handy, but wanted to take a couple.
It’s weird how walking around campus with a camera in hand makes you see things slightly differently. I’ve been on campus since 1987 (with a short hiatus when I was working downtown), and never realized that much of the drabbery around here is really kind of interesting. It’s not a beautiful campus like UBC or Stanford or anything, but it’s interesting in its own pragmatic way.
So, here are a few shots taken around campus today, including a few of the Goddess herself.
I’m going to try to keep my camera handy more often, and to use it more than once a week. Not committing to the “A Photo a Day” thing, but more pics ain’t bad. And I realize now that my blog is likely to get yanked from Google China for mentioning the “T word”
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left some comments, i got some the other day too and was planning pretty much the same type of things… great minds do think alike!
That’s it man! You are black listed by google.cn
Amazing! The same day you were taking photos around your campus, I was doing just that around mine! I’m new on mine, so wanted to get some orientation done. I grabbed a map and took pictures of every building. Then I loaded the map to flickr and created roll over tabs with links to the photos I’d taken. Call it a virtual tour or something, but the process really helped me learn about my campus. Now I’ve started a wikipedia page about the place. Its been a great exercise in orientation I can tell you! I think I’ll take your lead and create a Flickr group for my campus as well.
Leigh, that’s an awesome idea! I might have to, er, borrow that one…