Around Campus...

Dobby, Leaf and Fence

These are just a few photos I've taken recently with my new Canon Rebel XTi. I am just trying to get used to the camera...hehe

San Francisco (May 2007)

Pier 39 -- Sea Lions!

Chocolate...Cafe

Lombard Street

Pier 39 Carousel

Photos taken using my Canon EOS Rebel 2000 (Non-Digital).

My Gingerbread House

My Apartment

My little "hallway"... Closet and Bathroom on left, Bedroom door on right...

My kitchen! Some of it you can't see

Living room bookshelf!

Living room

My bedroom closet!

Bedroom (Dobby's litter box is no longer there! Its in the kitchen near the front door now, but it's a hooded litter box!)

My bed, but I don't normally have that many pillows/blankets lol

Flowers

A few sunflowers in mum's garden.

The Necklace

The Necklace

This necklace bore my life and my dreams

Brilliantly coloured glass beads

Black and purple held my sorrows and my dignity

Green and blue my connection with earth, my tranquility

Red my passion for all my beliefs

Pink for the child in me

In each glass bead there was a dream, a wish to be fulfilled

Some beads heavy, some light

Their weight invisible to the naked eye, only known by me

The necklace was a gift from my creator

Each day I wore my necklace with pride and humility

It reminded me of all that could be achieved and all that I had forgone

I stood tall and let others see

My necklace gleaming so brightly

It caught the gaze of many evil eyes

But I guarded the necklace with all my life

Throughout the day I’d touch the beads

Feel its power overcome me

But one tragic day the clasp became undone

My necklace crashed to the pavement

Broke into pieces, a thousand and one

I knelt to the ground and wept as I saw

My broken life and dreams before me

But still gleaming in the sun

I ran back to my home and wept some more

The following days seemed like an eternity

I was hollow, so incomplete, and so weak in the knees

When the black beads had crashed, I felt a weight lifted from me

But then the purple took away my dignity

That I had gained from the weight of the sorrows I carried

I no longer felt at one with nature

My passion and tranquility taken away

At nights I laid awake in a frenzied state

My inner child, innocence gone

I needed my necklace, without which I was not myself

I went back to the place where my dreams had broken

By now mud had covered the thousand and one pieces

The thread splintered and so frail

For the past week my dreams had been trampled over

They were no longer gleaming so brilliantly

But weeping for I’d been careless and left them to suffer

I picked up a few pieces of the beads

At home I tried to make them once again complete

But now something was not right

The pieces fit into place, but the colors were not whole

All the blues repelled each other, as did the pieces of the other colors

The colors asked to be blended with one another

The beads were no longer just red, purple, green, blue, black or pink

My life and dreams were fused together

Each bead now a multicolored work of art

Each bead as exquisite as me

I went back to the place where my necklace had broke

And picked up all the remaining pieces

Worked diligently until my necklace was whole

It was not the same necklace I once bore

Made of the same pieces, but now what I wore

Was new, still regarded as a gift from my creator

The pieces didn’t fit into the places they once used to be

But my life and dreams were still complete

Still waiting to be lived and fulfilled

Gleaming evermore brighter than before.

Manipulated Photos [Ali Imran]

The above are photos of mine that Ali Imran manipulated (with PhotoShop I believe). They are just too awesome, so I had to post them here :) Thanks Ali Imran !

London [May 2005]

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

Trafalgar Square

Swans

Tower of London

Tower of London ("inside")

London Bridge

Covent Garden

Big Ben / Millenium Wheel

Paris, France (V)

Eiffel Tower

Views from the top of the Eiffel Tower...

Using Chocolate as a divider...

Jardin de Luxemburg... Paris had the most beautiful garden parks!

Jardin Luxemburg

Pantheon

Inside the Pantheon

A street view of the Pantheon

Paris, France (IV)

More chocolate...Greatest stuff on Earth :P

Notre Dame

Notre Dame...One guy is holding his head...

Stained-Glass Window, Notre Dame

Notre Dame

Paris, France (III)

Parisian chocolate... The best!!

View of Paris from Sacre Coeur

The Sacre Coeur

Sacre Coeur ("Sacred Heart")

Sacre Coeur (Montmartre)

Paris, France (II)

Parisian street in Montmartre...La Cafe Rose

Parisian Street near Notre Dame

Yet another street...

Inside of a famous Tea Shop

Parisian Cemetary

Cat sitting on a tomb

Parisian Cemetary

Paris, France (I) [May 2005]

Vineyard

A vineyard

A wall in a park...

A man feeding some birds...

Arc de Triomphe

Iran B&W Photographs [July 2004]

A phone booth in Iran!

Si-o-Se Pol in Esfahan. Figures appear ghost-like because of the very low shutterspeed. Also, there was a bit of camera shake.

Tomb of the Poet Hafez in Shiraz

Some famous Mosque, the name of which I can't remember!

View of an Iranian Bazaar. A bit washed out at the top of the picture.

Persepolis.

Men doing some metal work.

Man playing an instrument on the Si-o-Se Pol in Esfahan

Street scene in Tehran

Some street somewhere in Shiraz I believe...

I took all of these photos in Iran with my Canon Rebel EOS 2000, which is an SLR camera. I developed and printed the photographs in a dark room. So it's entirely my work. :)

Bonjour

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