Feb

23

(2006)

Quick Photos from Around Campus

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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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4 Responses to “Quick Photos from Around Campus”

  1. Sami Khan says:
    February 23, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    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!

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  2. Tim Wang says:
    February 23, 2006 at 8:55 pm

    That’s it man! You are black listed by google.cn :)

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  3. Leigh Blackall says:
    February 25, 2006 at 12:51 am

    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.

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  4. D'Arcy says:
    February 25, 2006 at 8:53 am

    Leigh, that’s an awesome idea! I might have to, er, borrow that one… :-)

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