Pooya Karimian

^{(Photo by HAMACHI - CC License)}

I have a new camera. It's an Olympus E-510 DSLR. I'm still playing with it to learn its features but so far not bad.

Here is a not so good shot at ISO1600 - 1/8 sec - f3.5 (too noisy):

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I posted a photo of snow in SFU in my flickr account this morning. Right after that I got a message, which seemed like an automatic one, from a news site named Now Public. They asked for my permission for using that photo for a news story about yesterday's SFU closure due to snow.
The idea of having a news site where reporters are Internet users, is a nice idea. It may be the future of automatic news sites like Google news.

- The news is NowPublic.com
- Simon Fraser University Closed Due to Snow

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I am back from the States. Here are my photos and videos of MIT Museum. There you can see robots, holograms and fancy machines.

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Last week I went to Beijing, China for IROS 2006 conference. I took a whole bunch of photos, more than 800s. But there is only a few good ones in there. I started posting some of them to my flickr page. Check them out.

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Gastown, Vancouver

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That's how my place looks like. It is in an on-campus residency named Hamilton Hall.

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Deer Lake Park with Roozbeh, Esmaeil and Koroush

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Queen Elizabeth Park, Canada, Summer 2005

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I didn't know that it is possible to see auroras here in Vancouver. I was reading yesterday's Slashdot story on Space Weather warning on solar flares hit the earth on last Friday. There in the galleries I saw a couple of photos from Canada and when I googled it I found Astronomical Society of Canada /
Vancouver Centre and aurora photos taken from Langley, BC which is near here. I should search more to see if it is possible to see auroras with unaided eyes or not.

- spaceweather.com
- spaceweather's May 2005 Aurora Gallery
- Vancouver RASCal's picture gallery

Update: OK! Here it is,
- Photos of aurora from Burnaby moutain park
- Me in Burnaby mountain park, a 5 minute walk from here!

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A view of ocean and Lions Gate bridge from Ambleside Park, West Vancouver

Update: I was standing here when taking this photo

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Are you taking your daily dose of eye catching photo everyday? Sam Javanrouh is also posting tutorials on photo post-processing in his forums.
- [daily dose of imagery]

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- Capturing the fleeting beauty of snowflakes

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- Tehranavenue: Winter 2005, Palangchal Heights, Tehran

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Whistler, Canada, Fall 2004

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- Rainy
- Aki Mimoto's Album

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Golab-Darreh, Tehran, Spring 2004

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Mountain Climbing with Mayssam and Faraz

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