Knew Steph wouldn't be home late until tonight, and chances to do this on a whim are going to run out, so I decided to wander around the UWA campus after work with a tripod and my camera. Most of the photos I took were lemons, but there were a couple that came good. My fragile ego wants to know what people think. Constructive criticism also gratefully accepted.


the back of Winthrop Hall


and the front, overlooking the reflection pond
My 40 ringgit tripod behaves pretty much how you'd expect: poorly. It's very, very shaky. Many of the photos took several attempts. Some that I thought would work really well, like the library, didn't turn out at all. I hadn't originally intended to walk up to the reflection pond, but sat on the pavement I think I got some really nice shots.


reflection pond


clocktower
On the technical front; I upgraded my laptop to the new Ubuntu today using their upgrade app and everything. Things actually went perfectly. Upon rebooting and seeing X start I thought about how far we've come (and how I still have such low expectations). Everything seems much less broken than the betas I tried when writing the GNOME release notes. Ubuntu's non-free driver applet seems to need 10MB of writable memory for something though... that seems strange.

Finally, football at night makes for interesting photography. I got quite a few good shots, but I think this was my favourite:


some people move more than others