People Portraits & A few general pictures.

Since I had my camera with me today, besides taking the pictures for my driving experiment, I took some pictures around the university of some buildings along the way from my car to my office, and then after training, I also took some pictures of my fellow Kendoka.

The pictures of the university are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchiou/sets/72157608618408901/

The portraits I took are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchiou/sets/72157608618192337/
In terms of the portraits, I culled the ones that I didn't like, either compositionally poor to my tastes, or were not in focus etc. I also dropped all colour information as I think that these ones at least looked better in black and white. Especially when some people today had a bit of a flush skin tone from training etc, so they looked kind of blotchy. The black and white fixes that up considerably. Three of the best I thought were of Bonnie & Julie, Max and Echo.

I also took a picture of my office door, and my office.


The desk in plain view with two black monitors is my desk. The one closest to the door is not mine, the one towards the windows is. It's a pretty small room. The corner on the left with the purple pinboard is some Indian Professor's office LOL..... The perks of being a visiting academic eh.