I forgot to upload the weekly pic last sunday.  Actually, I didnt' really forget, but rather had no time.  I was up till like 5:30 am on Sunday (yes, I know I had work the next day) trying to 'fix' my X-B-O-X so that I could play games on it that I purchased at a minimal price.  Anyways, this new picture is actually 13 pictures stitched together to form one big panorama of the front campus at UofT downtown (the better looking campus btw, beats UTM and Scarborough any day of the week and twice on Sundays :P).  But yeah, I also managed to convert the jpg to a movie, so check that out also.  Its pretty neat. Below is the pic and underneath is a link to the movie.  Click both to check em out.

 

Download movie here

I've been busy. I probably not an excuse because uploading a picture shouldn't take that long anyway. Fact to the matter is, I haven't even taken any photos recently. So I'm left with putting up a *really* old picture. This was taken with my Nikon Coolpix 2500 camera and it was during my graduation. We were walking, single file, across university front campus when I decided to take a picture of Convocation Hall.

I'm hoping by next week, I should have some new pictures. But here's the pic for this week:

I took this picture with my macro conversion lens again. One of the quirks with this lens though is that when used with the Canon S1 IS at full wide-angle, then you can see vignetting at the corners. I made some modifications with photoshop to this picture also. It has become a habit for me, but I think everyone does it. By the way, I have no idea what the name of the flower is.

Anyways, I always put the picture on my other website, so the pic can be viewed here:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/rehan/siddiqui/photos/LT_IMG_2913.jpg

Also, I added a bunch of other pics I took at the park I went to last week. I find flowers the easiest pictures to take. First of all, they don't move. Secondly, they are usually outside, so when taken during the day, there's an abundance of light. Maybe there is an art to them I don't really know. Ah well, check em out here:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/rehan/siddiqui/photos/sets/flowers

But yeah, here's the weekly pic:

I took this picture at this park called Guildwood Park, out in Scarborough down by the lake. It was actually more of a garden because there were people there who were taking wedding pictures, all dressed up, including the brides and grooms. I was there to take pictures of the flora mainly and got some nice lookout pictures of Lake Ontario from high above. I think it was the Scarborough bluffs actually. I'll be posting those pics later on this week. But for now, here's the main pic. I used my wicked-azz super macro-lens for this shot to get right into the flower. I love that lens, because of its high magnification factor. And its perfect for my camera when I attach an adapter lens. I'm not sure, however, what the name of this particular flower is. For all I know, it could be a weed, like your everyday dandelion. hahaha... but what i liked about this picture was that i caught the ant on it. I think its an army ant... anyhow, u'r comments are always welcome and appreciated... thanks :)

Added a new picture... see below... its my typical favorite skyline picture... but from a different angle this time, as I actually took it from this place downtown on Cherry Street. I had to modify the picture a bit using Photoshop because the actual picture didn't come out as I had wanted. I basically increased the brightness and contrast a bit. But this made some invisible noise in the image to appear quite unwantingly. So then, to fix that I had to use a filter in Photoshop that essentially 'despeckled' the noise. I think what it did was just blur the image a bit. This got rid of the noise, but it created another problem. My image was a little blurry. So then I sharpened the image and voila! ... Not a masterpiece, but hopefully one of these days I'll go back and take the perfect night shot of the Toronto skyline.

Btw, for some reason, MSN messes up the pictures that I upload to their servers. So if you look at the picture in my 'photos' section of this blog, you will see the 'not so great' version. Instead, click the link below to see what the picutre looks like:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/rehan/siddiqui/photos/LT_IMG_2662.jpg

Or click the picture below to compare the above version to the MSN messed up version (I feel like I'm being repetitive :P):

Here's a new picture for this week.  I haven't taken any pictures recently and so I had to go back to my archives and dig out something that I liked.  You may or may not like it, but I do.  I haven't put up many (actually any) pictures of people in my weekly pics.  Its mostly been buildings, scenery, nature, etc.  So maybe it was time.  This weeks picture was taken earlier this year at a conference.  The person in the picture is an arab singer named Sami Yusuf.  He's supposed to be really big in the arab world for singing religious songs.  I thought he was alright. 

Anyways, here's the pic:

i added a new "picture of the week"... i'm such a lazy person tho... i haven't blogged anything in over a week ... i should try at least to blog something once every two days... but its hard... don't know how other people do it... writing comments however is soooo much easier  ...

i was reading some other person's blog and she asked herself the question, "why blog?"... and so i thought it would be interesting to ask myself that question too... why do i blog?... i can think of a few reasons...

1. ...

hmmm, ok its 3:50am friday night... and i'm so tired from just playing basketball... will continue tomorrow hopefully

but yeah, here's the pic:

So I was playing with my camera the other day, and decided to take some pictures of water drops in midair... I think I had to get like 40 shots before I got what I considered something satisfactory. It took time and patience to get anything good, and even then, I don't think I got very good shots... In any case, I'v seen other folks put upside objects behind the drops so that it comes out in the picture as right side up... and it works... I've got a few pics which will be going up this week. But before I put them up, just wanted see how many people can guess what the object is (for those I've told (sasi), please don't say anything). Here's the pic, what's the object behind it?: