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so I came back from Europe yesterday. Went to France and Switzerland, was really fun. I have close to 2500 (23.4GB) of pics from this trip (and I haven’t even transferred all of the ones from my other camera yet =/).

I obviously didn’t upload all of them cause that’d take forever but here are some of the ones I thought were best that I picked out - http://www.flickr.com/photos/weasel707/collections/72157607066362777/

Here are some of my favourites:

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower at Night

Louvre, inside

View from Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, highest train station in Europe at 3471m

Lauterbrunnen Waterfall

View of Lauterbrunnen Valley from Mannlichen / HDR

View of Wetterhorn near Mannlichen / HDR

View of Eiger, Monch, and Jungfrau from Mannlichen / HDR

View near Kleine Scheidegg

Sign Post near Kleine Scheidegg, Wetterhorn in background

Sunset in Bern, Switzerland / HDR

Zurich, Switzerland / HDR

And finally, my personal favourite:

Cow in Swiss Alps, near Mannlichen / HDR

Anyway there’s a lot more, those are just some of my faves. The best pics are probably in the Alps set, cause the Alps are really pretty. I’ve been asked for the high res (original) version of the pic with the cow in the mountains, here it is - Cow in Swiss Alps - Original Size (3900×2613).

Ok so I finally finished scanning all my underwater pics from Cuba. Scanning negatives takes a reeeaaally long time :/.

You can see all of the ones I uploaded on my flickr page (they’re the last few in that set, scroll down a bit).

Here’s a few that I think are pretty cool (click for larger sizes):

(Most people don’t see it, but there IS an octopus in this picture! Click on it for a larger size. You can see it’s eyes sticking out and the rest body kind there. I guess they kinda suck their legs in and spread out or something when they’re hiding in a hole :/.)

(Some funky flat fish with eyes on the top of its head. Kinda cool cause it’s dark around the edges while it’s swimming, but changes colour to blend in with the ocean floor when it stops).

As you can see the quality is terrible. These were taken with cheap plastic underwater cameras. We got 3 of them for free from Nolitours when we went to Mexico. They’re “focus-free”, which quite literally means what it says. You just have to guess the distance you’re taking a picture at, and anything closer than or beyond the predetermined focus distance will turn out blurry. Hell, they don’t even use batteries! You rewind the film by turning a plastic wheel thingy. Meh, better than nothing I guess.

So uh, I just came home from a week in Cuba today. It was really awesome, except the flight. We were supposed to be flying on a Cubana Airlines A320 plane, but for some unknown reason (I’m guessing that plane broke down so they decided to borrow another one from a different airline), we had to go on this really really crappy Boeing 727 (similar to the Tupolev Tu-154). This is a plane from the mid-1960’s, and Boeing stopped manufacturing them in the 1980’s. I didn’t think I’d ever have to fly on something this crappy in Canada. The only comparable experience I have is the Il-62, but that’s an ancient Soviet plane so it owns. Anyways, the airline was “Flair Air”, some charter airline that nobody’s ever heard of. They have a total of 2 planes, only one of which is a passenger plane - the Boeing 727-200 that I traveled on. Here’s a picture (from their official site):

Here’s another picture of it (that I took at the airport in Holguin).
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..Is it just me, or is Easter weekend much longer than it needs to be? So like, I’m like really bored, so I’ve been looking at some of my old Tic Tac boxes. Dunno, I have a weird obsession with collecting Tic Tacs from random places. I have around 12 flavours from 4 countries (Canada, US, Russia, Mexico). Hopefully I’ll be able to add Cuban Tic Tacs to my collection next week. Yeah so anyways, in my free time I often take pictures of my Tic Tacs. Here’s a few:

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t141/sovietweasel/IMG_6745.jpg
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t141/sovietweasel/IMG_5925.jpg
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t141/sovietweasel/IMG_5923.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11800560@N07/1518943253/in/set-72157603354821130/

There’s also a few high-res ones here (click on the picture, then All Sizes, then Original for the huge version (1555×2323)) . Another cool pic is here (although nothing to do with tic tacs); click on “Original” for a massive 3872 x 2592 4MB image :D). Oh, and you can browse around my flickr if you like, there’s some more of my pics (from my trip to Russia last summer and others). My favourite one would probably have to be this, taken at High Park, in Toronto. These were all taken with my dad’s Nikon D80 camera, which is about 10 megapixels. It’s cool cause I liek high res stuffs :]

Lol, that was a random post. Well, I’m bored, so whatevr.