Monday, January 17, 2011

365 Days in Pictures

January 2010: My brother James stops for a picture on his porch, having just walked home in the rain.




January 2010: Izzy Storm poses for Brandon Mercer's photoshoot in Cleveland, OH.




January 2010: I vent my feelings on getting my second concussion in a year.




February: Garrret Street is colourful on a sunny day.




February: The parking garage by the hospital.




February: A lock on a fence behind Douglas Library.




February: Penny, the puppy who lives at my brother's house, sleeps on my lap.




February: The "Snowlypians" I made the day before the Gold Medal hockey game of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.




February: Rachel Allison's periodic table of elements cupcake fundraiser.




February: Spruce trees in my neighbourhood at dusk.




February: Amber, one if my two gerbils, poses during a run around on my bathroom counter.




March: BioSci is bright against a very blue sky.




March: Snow still sticks to the ground in some parts of Ontario during my drive from Collingwood to Kingston with my mom.




March: James, Shannon Bell, and Jon Norris play up the camera during the afternoon of St. Patrick's day.




March: A crane, made out of a starburst wrapper, sits on my headphones in the Watt's Hall study room as I buckle down for midterms.




March: My housemate Kelsey Wibbing obligingly strikes a pose in the hallway of hour apartment.




March: Penny poses shortly after mastering the "stay" command long enough for me to get a good picture of her.




March: Orion is visible in the sky around the corner of my building.




March: Kelsey plays with a bubble pipe sent to us by our other housemate, Caelin.





March: A starling sings outside my apartment early in the morning.





March: A squirrel pokes its head around a tree in Summerhill park.





April: Wind catches the pieces of the dandelion just as I snap a picture.





April: Trees outside of Grant Hall are coming into bloom again.





April: Trevor the baby squirrel, abandoned by his mother and found on our lawn, cuddles an oatmeal heat bag while napping in our recycling bin. Sandy Paws animal rescue came to pick him up from us in a few hours, and last I asked them he was thriving at the centre.





April: The trees outside Staffer show off their colours.





April: Tobi, Alice's dog, eyes a squirrel while out for a roller-blade through the ghetto.





April: Sunset over Victoria Park.





April: the main staircase of Stauffer, seen looking straight up the centre from the bottommost floor.





April: The last blaze of sunset peeks through the shelves of Stauffer during exam time.





May: Flowers on Johnson St. coated in raindrops.





May: Penny pokes her head around the column of the boys' porch.





May: Graffitti on a wall in downtown Kingston.




May: A flower blossoms in a garden on my street.





May: Kelsey jams out on a giant Crayon she found on the road, discarded by a student who was moving out.





May: The light on the bathroom of our new house. No more basement apartment!




June: A turkey relaxes in its' coop at Riverdale Farm in Toronto, ON.





June: Flamingos sunbathe at the Toronto Zoo.





June: A monkey turns to peer out of its cage at the Toronto Zoo.





June: A baby orangutan lays out ans smiles up at me through the glass of his exhibit at the Toronto Zoo.





June: A happy face is formed by the bubbles in this long exposure of the surface of our pond.





June: People study and socialize on the many floors of the Toronto Reference Library.





June: The Heath Street bridge in the evening.





June: A candle is blown out at Ashleigh Shier's birthday party.





June: A bird clutches his dinner, perched on a roadworks sign in downtown Toronto.





June: Graffiti Alley in Toronto is a small road where graffiti is legally allowed at certain times. Almost all of it is covered.




June: Commuters in Bloor Station.



June: Flowers in Toronto.



June: Flowers in Toronto (Red Filter).



June: The lights of the main drag of Niagara Falls seen through the windshield and the rain.



June: Niagara Falls (Canadian side) lit up at night.



June: Winne the Pooh and Piglet, made of fondant, sit atop a cake made by me and elizabeth Clifford.



June: A white rose in the afternoon.



June: Limes sit ready on the table in our backyard in preparation for our garden party.



June: Commuters pack the stairs and subway during the morning rush.



June: A girl with a protest sign sits on the lawn of Queen's Park during one of the Days of Action that preceded the G20.



June: Cattle cars roll through Oshawa station in the rain during the hours I was stuck there on my way home from Kingston, due to the restrictions put in place for the G20.




June: A man marches near the head of the peaceful parade on the Saturday of the G20.


June: A man confronts cops near the front of the G20 parade.



June: An officer directs foot traffic around Spadina and King during the G20 riots.



June: On the Sunday of the G20, the "Bike Bloc" takes to the street to advocate for better public transit and bike lanes.



June: An officer stands at the corner of Bay and Bloor on the Sunday of the G20.




June: A giant sign sits in front of Queen's Park during the G20.




July: A flower sits nestled underneath a pine bush.




July: A dragon and her nest I made out of sand at the beach in Southampton, Ontario.


July: The International Space Station is seen crossing the star trails during this 8 minute exposure. The ISS is visible for a few minutes a couple times a night as the sun reflects off of it at the right angle, which is why it "fades in" and then "fades out" within the eight minutes.




July: The subway is abandoned at 2AM, just before I caught the last train home.




July: A rose stands alone in the park near St. Michael's Hospital. This was the first picture I took after buying a new lens to replace my old one, which broke earlier that week.




July: A thirty second exposure of the stars over Southampton. The stars rotate throughout the night around the North Star, creating concentric circles across the sky.




July: A Bumblebee pollinates a flower near my house.




July: Another beautiful sunset over Chantry Island.




July: The "Good Luck on your MCAT" toppers for a cake for my MCAT review class. Made out of fondant, the letters are actually all different symbols from the MCAT (in order: Good = GTP, two phospholipids, delta...Luck = Force Arrows, Uranium, Carbon, Potassium....On: Oxygen Nucleophilic Attack....Your= Ligandic Receptor, hexane ring, reverse osmosis, resistance.....MCAT= mu, omega, adenosine and thymine.)




July: After a day at the beach, I'm questioning the efficacy of my sunblock.




July: Glasses sit stacked at the bar of Fran's restaurant in Toronto.




August: Molson, Elizabeth's 9-year-old "puppy", tries to look his cutest for a treat while out on a walk.




August: A broken chair sits outside an abandoned homestead in the ghost town of Dummer, Saskatchewan. My brother, father and I went on a ghost town tour of SK one weekend in mid August.




August: A car lies abandoned and crumbling in Dummer, SK.




August: A piano is all that is left in a church in the ghost town of Bateman, SK.




August: Southern Alberta sky and plains, just southeast of Medicine Hat.




August: A giant dandelion-like flower sits in a crumbling parking lot in Meleval, SK.




August: A church is abandoned in the near-ghost town of Verwood, SK.




August: Watch gears are on sale at the Antiques market at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto.




August: The water is choppy below the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA.




August: The central cables that run the cable cars of San Francisco at the Cable Car Museum.





August: A man sits alone in front of the window in the mess hall of Alcatraz prison.






August: The Arcade Museum at Fisherman's Wharf boasts all kinds of coin-operated games (and puppet shows, as here) from the last two centuries.




August: A Bansky rat sits atop a building in Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, CA.





August: The sun sets behind Alcatraz Island.




August: A vendor sells popcorn at a Giants game at AT&T Park.





September: A staircase clings to the rock face of Moro Rock, 7000 ft above sea level, in Sequoia National Park.





September: Three trees grow close together and hundreds of feet high in Sequoia National Park.




September: Grass catches the light of the very hot sun of Napa Valley. While we were there the temperature climbed will over a hundred degrees fahrenheit.




September: Napa Valley grapes (color select for brown).




September: Monterey Bay at night (Monterey, CA).




September: Egg Yolk Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California.


September: Fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.


September: Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.


September: Jurassic Park dinosaurs pop out of the bushes during the backlot tour at Universal Studios Los Angeles.

September: No matter how hot, the snow never melts in Whoville (USLA backlot).




September: My housemate Caelin and Penny the puppy are reunited after several months apart.





September: The sun sets on University Avenue as students return to school.




September: Students crowd the corners at the top of Aberdeen street, during a subdued Homecoming weekend.


September: Shoes are abandoned on the porch of a house in the ghetto.



October: Marigold the shelter cat gets cozy in Victoria Garner's arms while were there volunteering taking pictures for the Kingston Humane Society's website.



October: A quizzical sparrow tilts his head at me as I peek into his tree.



October: Sarah MacPhee, my cousin visiting from Washington, strikes a pose at the top of the Blue Mountains in Collingwood.



October: The fall colours catch the sunlight in Tobermory, Ontario.



November: Bren Smith flashes her winning smile in my kitchen while she is over for dinner.



October: The ghosts of fallen leaves are left on the sidewalk after the first snow of the year melted.


October: Tahoe at my Aunt's Thanksgiving party.


October: Kelsey sporting a bubble beard.


October: The trees, they are a-changin'.


October: James, dressed as Leonardo the Ninja Turtle, and I, dressed as the Riddler, pose for a picture to our parents in my Kitchen on Halloween.

November: Regan Sullivan and Matt Greey ham it up for the camera dressed in thier best for the Science Formal (don't worry, its a fake).


November: Rachel Allison shows off her awesome purse in her Sci Formal portrait.



November: Kelsey and her boyfriend Mike pose for pictures before Sci Formal.



November: A girl waits on scaffolding on Yonge St. for Santa in the 105th Toronto Santa Claus Parade.


November: Books from th compact shelving area of Stauffer Library.


November: The sun sets behind Stauffer and the rest of University Ave.



December: The fourth floor of Stauffer is deserted at 2AM.



December: Jess Pickles lets off some steam during a Stauffer all-nighter studying for our exams.



December: A male sparrow peeps out of the bushes by the JDUC during my walk home from my last exam of the term.



December: A one-second exposure shows the swarms of shoppers packing the Eaton Centre two days before Christmas.



December: An ornament on my Aunt Kate's Christmas tree.



December: Banister decorations up in Collingwood on Boxing Day.



December: Eeyore, a Christmas present from my brother, takes up residence on my bed.




December: A party snowman, equipped with a party streamer and hat, chills out in our backyard in Collingwood. Sadly, the hot sun on December 31st meant he didn't live to see the new year.



January 2011: An early moonrise as the sun is setting on Douglas Library.



January 2011: Icicles hang off a building on University Ave. the day after classes started again.



January 2011: Leafs fans react to a goal in the second period of their game against the St. Louis Blues at the ACC (despite playing in their away-game jerseys).



January 2011: Construction lights hang in the parking garage below Kingston Hall field.




January 2011: Jessica.




January 2011: One Year Later, framed by some of my favorite pictures from the year.