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Electronic junk in front of the former candidate's election poster, now new Chancellor of the University of Zaragoza. The UZ is one of the most important public Spanish universities, in the top 400 rank out of the current 160.000 university institutions in the world, 3000 of them in the USA, with Chemistry and Computer Engineering (my field) having reached up to the 51 and 151 notches respectively. Like many other public universities it's been facing severe funding cuts for the past few years that hamper its ability to compete despite its increasing own revenues (tuition, projects, patents...). Politicians play up or play down the role and achievements of the UZ depending on their interests, without clear nor clever objectives, although often craving for getting a PhD (or getting it even by paying some one else, who does the job).
Chatarra electrónica frente al cartel electoral del entonces candidato y ahora Rector de la Universidad de Zaragoza. La UZ es una de las más importantes universidades españolas, situada entre las 400 primeras de las 160.000 existentes en el mundo, 3000 de ellas en Estados Unidos, con titulaciones como Química e Informática (mi campo) que han llegado a situarse en el puesto 51 y 151 respectivamente. Como muchas otras universidades públicas, lleva sometida desde hace unos años a drásticos recortes que comprometen su competitividad a pesar del incremento de sus ingresos propios en concepto de tasas, proyectos y patentes. Los poíticos ensalzan o minusvaloran el papel y logros de la UZ según sus intereses, sin objetivos ni claros ni inteligentes, aunque con frecuencia anhelan conseguir un doctorado, o lo consiguen incluso aunque sea pagando a alguien que haga el trabajo.
Some of the decorations on the ECE Department's Christmas tree include some colorful circuit boards along with regular balls and baubles.
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7DWF Wednesdays: Macro or Close up. Honored to get Grandpa's "Slipstick". There is a similar Lawrence 10-B model in the Smithsonian. Circa 1938-1947 & sold for25¢. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_121...
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This all started with a question: “What kind of original, exclusive pictures could shoot an insane computer architect who loves photography?” This first try is a double exposure showing (second shot) the screen of a host computer with the signals of a MIPS pipelined processor implemented in VHDL on a FPGA, running a simple loop, superimposed to (1st shot) the actual FPGA development board to which the VHDL cross-compiled code has been transferred. RAW image imported in LR5.5, just applying the default Vivid Nikon Picture Control setup. Warmly devoted to my colleage Dr. J. Resano and our students.
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Todo esto comenzó preguntándome: “¿Qué tipo de fotografías originales y exlusivas podría hacer un arquitecto de computadores loco de atar al que le gusta la fotografía?”. Este primer intento es una doble exposición que muestra (primer disparo) la pantalla de un computador principal con las señales de un procesador MIPS segmentado implementado en VHDL sobre una FPGA, que está ejecutando un bucle simple, sobreimpuesta a (primer disparo) la placa de desarrollo real con la FPGA a la que se ha transferido el código VHDL tras compilación cruzada. La imagen RAW está importada en LR5.5, aplicando simplemente el perfil Vivid de Nikon. Dedicada con afecto a mi colega el Dr. J. Resano y a nuestros estudiantes.
I took this picture of my brother in Kingston, Ontario, in the winter of 2010. Last year, he finished his PhD degree in Computer Engineering.
These are tiny Kermit Green Button Pom Flowers from a very special bouquet given to me by dear friends at the loss of my brother.
My brother, got me my first job. I was going to be starting my freshman year at UC Davis as a computer engineering major and he knew a supervisor at the company, Radio Shack. He persuaded his friend to hire me in the quality control department. This is something my husband and I still laugh about because of my incessant need and love for details.
Later, after I had switched colleges to the Santa Cruz Bay area, my brother found me another job. He hired me to work at the Video store he was managing. It was great working with him, and I appreciated his confidence in me. Unfortunately, it was a short stint there due to two incidents. I grew up pretty sheltered and when some ladies came in looking for Chippendale videos, I took them over to the Disney section and showed them those rascally chipmunks. They laughed and thought I was joking. I was not.
The other incident that sealed my fate and convinced me that it was a wise move getting out of computer engineering was the morning after I had worked the closing shift. My brother arrived at the store to find a completely crashed computer system. It cost him hours and hours of work re-entering data and I’m sure there was also some embarrassment with the owner of the store since it was his sister who was responsible. He never yelled at me or fired me.
Through those college years his home was always open to me and I will never forget his generosity. He had a smile that could light up any room and it will be greatly missed.
The Pontifical University of Salamanca (UPSA) offers a variety of degrees and programs, including:
Health Sciences: Nursing, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Psychology, and Physical Activity and Sports Sciences.
Communication: Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, and Marketing and Communication.
Education: Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, and Pedagogy.
Engineering and Business: Business Administration and Management of Technological Companies and Computer Engineering.
Humanities: Philosophy, Humanities, and Trilingual Biblical Philology.
The liberal governments of the 19th century led to the exclusion of Theology and Canon Law studies from the University of Salamanca. In 1940, Pope Pius XII established a new university in the same city to restore these two faculties and granted it the status of Pontifical University. The Decree of Erection was signed on September 25, 1940, at the express request of the Spanish episcopate, thus fulfilling the personal concern of Cardinal Plá y Deniel to recover Ecclesiastical Sciences in Salamanca, which had been gradually displaced and definitively suppressed from Spanish universities in 1852. In this way, after several attempts at restoration, Ecclesiastical Studies returned to Salamanca.
En la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (UPSA) se estudian una variedad de grados y programas, incluyendo:
Ciencias de la Salud: Enfermería, Fisioterapia, Logopedia, Psicología, y Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte.
Comunicación: Periodismo, Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas, y Márketing y Comunicación.
Educación: Maestro en Educación Infantil y Maestro en Educación Primaria, y Pedagogía.
Ingeniería y Empresa: Administración y Dirección de Empresas Tecnológicas e Ingeniería Informática.
Humanidades: Filosofía, Humanidades y Filología Bíblica Trilingüe.
Los gobiernos liberales del siglo XIX hicieron que los estudios de Teología y Derecho Canónico fueran excluidos de la Universidad de Salamanca. El papa Pío XII crea, en 1940, una nueva universidad para restaurar esas dos facultades, en la misma ciudad, y le confiere la categoría de Universidad Pontificia. El Decreto de Erección fue firmado el 25 de septiembre de 1940, por petición expresa del episcopado español, cumpliendo así con la preocupación personal del Cardenal Plá y Deniel de recuperar en Salamanca las Ciencias Eclesiásticas, que habían sido poco a poco desplazadas y suprimidas definitivamente de las universidades españolas en 1852. De esta manera, tras varios intentos de restauración, vuelven a Salamanca los Estudios Eclesiásticos.
In the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Michigan - North Campus, Ann Arbor, MI
This is Sydnee decorating the Christmas tree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department office at BYU. Mask in place for this year's hygiene rules.
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This is Holly, our graphics expert for the BYU ECE Department. She is sitting on the couch in our department office in a very cozy pose. She is reading the Christmas story in the Bible with a happy smile on her face.
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer practices Space Station repairs in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
The giant pool is over 12 metres deep and features a full-scale mock-up of the International Space Station. It is used to train astronauts in the very precise and difficult task of making repairs or installing new equipment in the vacuum of space.
To simulate microgravity underwater, astronauts are weighted down to minimise the buoyant force that would otherwise have them bopping back up to the surface. They must also work very slowly to compensate for the drag caused by water.
It’s about as fun as falling in water fully dressed and pulling out your laptop to start working. But someone has got to do it.
Extravehicular activity or EVA training is standard across the astronaut experience, beginning at the candidate level and continuing before and after a spaceflight.
Additionally, astronauts take on a slew of other hands on activities and simulations. Matthias is in Bordeaux, France, today for the latest parabolic flight campaign. From medical training to orbital mechanics and computer engineering, astronauts have a busy schedule.
Becoming an astronaut involves a cutthroat selection process for an exciting job. But it’s not without its risks. Human spaceflight today has evolved into a standard and safe job, thanks to the sacrifice of courageous individuals over the years. Without their contributions, humans would not be the space faring species we have become today.
In celebration the beginning of the space era, the UN has designated 12 April as International Day of Human Spaceflight, more popularly known as Yuri’s Night. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to fly to space on 12 April 1961, a historic event in human history.
Events are held across the globe in celebration of Yuri’s Night. Find one near you and join the world’s largest space party celebrating human achievement beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
And if you happen to meet an astronaut, show them some love. They don’t always have it easy.
Credit: NASA
"Transceiver (English, technical term from transmitter and receiver ), is original the name for a combination of transmitter and receiver, implemented in constructional construction unit, in (similar) the radio engineering, in whose early period transmitters and receivers were ith D R. (in contrast to the compact Transceiver) separate, not rarely voluminoese devices. With network adapters of the computer engineering a Transceiver is as a rule that component, which is responsible over the transmitting medium for sending and receiving the signals (more precisely expressed: feeding and uncoupling the signals in that/out the medium). Depending on, which is used transmitting medium, it concerns thereby electrical impulses , light or electromagnetic waves .
A Transceiver can be also a computer system, which overacts data from a system into another. With a connecting computer between a commodity management and a BDE - one speaks system also of a Transceiver. Here it guarantees those the processing and forwarding (in both directions) of the information."
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Because of Covid, all in-person graduation ceremonies were cancelled on the BYU campus. Every department was tasked with some type of virtual convocation. Here is "set" for our convocation broadcast in the lobby of our office suite. I am behind the podium reading graduates' names while Jason Harvey puts up photographs on his laptop for the YouTube broadcast. There were some glitches and we missed some names. Live radio or TV is hard!
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Here is one last shot of the ECE Department Christmas tree with Sydnee adding another circuit board as a decoration.
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Devon Energy Hall was dedicated in January 2010 as a multi-disciplinary facility for the Gallogly College of Engineering. This building was designed to create a collagorative learning environment, and at the time of construction represented the largest single corporate gift in OU's history.
The 103,000 square feet of clasrooms, team rooms, teaching labs and flexible high-tech research space will enable the college to continue to implement its redesigned engineering curriculum, which places added emphasis on teamwork and leadership. Devon Energy Hall also provides a home to the schools computer science and electrical and computer engineering.
This is the scene during the Freshman Seminar for Electrical
and Computer Engineering when Mark Hamblin from IMFlash
came in to guest lecture for the class. He always has one
of the students try on a bunnysuit, which is worn inside a
cleanroom. Quite a fashion statement. The students all
love getting dressed in a bunnysuit for the first time. It stops
being fun after about a week of working in a cleanroom.
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My old friend (former Stranger) Hollywood Taj Star seem to be walking the same beat as I these days. I have met him on the street several times since our first encounter a few years ago.
He is such a friendly and interesting fellow that I can't help stopping to say hi and taking a follow-up portrait.
Today he was distributing flyers on campus (his "day job") but he had wisely taken temporary refuge in the lobby of the Computer Engineering Building to warm up. That is where I met him today and took this photo.
I asked if he was still pursuing his music career and he said "Definitely, man."
As usual, we parted with a friendly fist-bump and a "See you next time."
The following bio is from his Facebook page:
"Hollywood Taj Star is a singer/songwriter/Actor who is turning heads with his music and on stage stylistic entourage of multi-cultural singers and dancers called the Yuvak Crew. A highly motivated person who speaks seven language and works hard to maintain spiritual motivator in shows. Hollywood and Yuvak Crew is an exciting and colorful production crew that presents a dynamic main stream variety show with North American and Caribbean character consisting of grooving Hip hop, jiving beats, and rhythmically tantalizing reggae dancehall with new music compas soca.
Hollywood and the Yuvak Crew have performed a various clubs & hotels in Toronto's entertainment circuit as well as many different Showtime venues across North America."
School started last week at BYU. As part of the fun, my department (Electrical and Computer Engineering) held our annual kickoff meeting. This year we did it at the football stadium and got to tour the inner workings of the place. This included a walk around the field and throwing around a football. I was able to reproduce an earlier photo I had taken at the University of Utah stadium in the equivalent endzone (see www.flickr.com/photos/aaronrhawkins/27646217562/)
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Here is another look at new freshmen students getting oriented at BYU during their first week. This is an event put on by the college of engineering with these particular displays sponsored by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The foosball table shown is very special. It is computer controlled with computer vision and motors to control the rods. Humans can play against the computer, but depending on the settings, have little chance at winning.
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This is the South East elevation of the ECE Building (Electrical and Computer Engineering) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The building was the work of SmithGroup.
Photographed using a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 lens on a Sony A7S.
.... A rash of violent crime in Toronto include shootings, stabbings and even a machete attack near the Eaton Centre, has left the city reeling with concerns for safety on city streets and public spaces. The murder of Mark Ernsting happened only two blocks from where I live, I walk down McGill Street often. The site of Mark Ernsting’s murder, on McGill Street near Yonge and Gerrard Sts, has sprouted a makeshift memorial. .... A 39-year-old man fatally stabbed was out for his regular evening walk and appears to be the victim of a robbery gone wrong, Toronto police say. Mark Ernsting, 39, died after he was attacked near 38 McGill St., just east of Yonge Street and close to Ryerson University, around 9:30 p.m. ET. Police say he was stabbed multiple times, including at least once in the head. "There was no previous relationship between the accused and the deceased," Toronto Police Detective, Paul Worden explained "The deceased was just out for his normal evening walk and happened to come across the accused and he was attacked."
Mr Ernsting was also an adjunct professor at Ryerson University where he worked with graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering department. About an hour after the attack, police arrested Calvin Michael Nimoh, 21, near Yonge Street and Summerhill Avenue. He is charged with second-degree murder, Investigators believe Nimoh, who is known to police, may have tried to rob Ernsting ....
The temperature did not feel like spring, but we held the ECE Department's spring picnic anyway. Lots of hamburgers and hotdogs eaten and good attendance despite the chilly temperatures.
To enjoy my other creative project, please visit my funny short stories website: 500ironicstories.com where you can read or listen to new stories each week. I have also curated the stories into three different selections:
Stories for Kids - 500ironicstories.com/stories-for-kids Love Stories - 500ironicstories.com/love-story
Moral Stories - 500ironicstories.com/moral-stories
While trying to struggle in a long working day, and during a meeting.... there in the Internet Café close to the room we were meeting in, there was a boy working on a computer just grabbed my attention with his incredible skills, fast touch typing, controlling over tens of pages at the same time, and a messenger, and virus scan, and network connection correction, and I don’t know what else... he was so fast that I couldn’t follow him, I tried hard to figure out what he was doing, he totally turned my attention away from the long boring meeting.... so I felt I have to talk to him, not to ask him what he’s doing but to admire him, he’s one of the future rays, I couldn’t wait for the meeting to end, and told the people “you go back up to see the manager, and I’ll follow you later..”
So I got back to the young man and had a sweet short conversation....
“Hello”
“Hi..”
“in what grade are you ?”
“High school”
“and do you have in your mind the major you want to study in collage after you finish?”
“yes, Computer Engineering”
“I thought so, and I’m sure you’re going to get it, I want you to put your full mind in studying and to work hard because you can!!”
“ok”
“you are so clever and skilled, and I’m totally impressed by your work and typing and controlling all over the stuff you’re working on, I was watching you from there, and I’m really amazed!!”
“Thanks..”
“so work hard”
“ok”
“I want Computer Engineering from you”
“ok”
“best wishes and good luck”
“Thank!”
well, not exactly a conversation because I was talking and talking and talking, and he was too shy to answer more than shaking his head approving and “ok”, or maybe he was freaked out and asked himself “where in the world did she come from???” .... LOL !! :D
but it was enough for me to see the happiness in his eyes and smile for hearing these words directly from a stranger, and I was more happy to meet him, his view working brilliantly was so refreshing for me :)
I can’t help it, whenever I see such skilled young dears like him, I can’t keep my mouth shut and I feel I have to tell them what I feel :)
Oh, that make me feel so old, LOL !! :D
I hope you all will have a wonderful week ahead..... this week is so long and busy for me :(
Hanieh Bazargan, a sophomore computer engineering major at San Jose State University, says that around the age of 12 she chose to wear the hijab that covers her head. Bazargan says that people should research and look at various points of view about Muslims before they judge.
Épinettes | Boulevard Bessières
La Collection NLL - Nicolas Laugero Lasserre.
The project Art42 has been created to allow everybody to discover Urban art (street art and post-graffiti) that doesn't have a permanent exhibition in France yet, and to give it a better visibility.
This is an updated version of my "engineering (geek) student kit" since I now work in tech and am no longer a university computer engineering student as of 2005.
What're you looking at here? This is my kit for when I fly to and from different work campuses for training, presentations, conferences, etc. I don't always bring all of this stuff, but most of it gets rotated in and out regularly.
I use a variety of SFBags/Waterfield products to keep everything organised including a Sleevecase and multiple gear pouches to store batteries, cables, etc.
Most of the stuff seen here can be seen in greater detail in other photos on my flickr stream.
once upon a time when i was a computer engineering student, this was the stuff i carried to school/work
update: this kit is circa ~2005. yes, when the black Razr V3 was still $400 and much more...
updated photo of my kit as a traveling evil empire employee coming next week.
updated version here: Updated Geek Kit
Honorary Doctor and Keynote Speaker, Julie Payette, Chief Executive Officer at the Montreal Science Centre and former Chief Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency speaking at one of BC Institute of Technology's 2016 Graduations on Thursday, June 23, 2016
Professor Mohammad Taghi Rouhani Rankouhi and his students in front of Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (previously known as Faculty of Informatics) of Shahid Beheshti University (National University of Iran) in Evin, Teheran, Iran (Persia)
Image theft in RT, Russia Today Television Network website. Embarrassing though, they watermark their logo onto my photo and then claim that it is from AFP, Agence France-Presse.
استاد محمدتقی روحانی رانکوهی به همراه دانشجویان در مقابل دانشکده مهندسی برق وکامپیوتر (دانشکده انفورماتیک) دانشگاه شهید بهشتی (دانشگاه ملی ایران)، اوین، تهران، ایران
این عکس در مراسم تقدیر از استاد روحانی رانکوهی برداشته شده است.
سرقت عکس در وبسایت شبکه تلویزیونی روسیه امروز ، جالب اینکه لوگوی خود را بر روی عکس حک میکنند و بعد ادعا میکنند که عکس از خبرگزاری فرانسه است.
تمام حقوق محفوظ است ©
Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, with students enjoying a little walk.
Kodak Portra 400; Canon EOS Rebel XS; 35-80mm f/4-5.6.
It is my pleasure to introduce you to Ella, who I met at her sales booth in the Excalibur hotel in Las Vegas. Ella who recently moved to the USA from Israel was a very happy and cheerful young lady to talk with and I wish her every success in her studies and career in computer engineering. I explained the Flickr 100 Strangers project to her and she willingly offered her picture. Thank you Ella for agreeing to help me with my photography project.
Observations: As I was sightseeing and did not have my Nikon with me I had to rely on my Sony DSC-RX100M2 which does not provide the flexibility of the Nikon, but I think it did a reasonable job.
This picture is the 88th portrait in my efforts to complete the required 100 portraits for the portraits of strangers project to help improve my photography skills. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers on the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/ and on the 100 strangers web site www.100strangers.com/ . Please also visit Bill's Photography on Facebook www.facebook.com/BillsPhotography and my photography web site www.billsphotography.info .
I wasn't happy being a computer engineering technician/purchasing agent. It
was nice working in air conditioning instead of fixing them all of the time
but being inside in an office, with all the crap that goes on in there
wasn't for me. I guess I was always meant to be a Jedi. It's my destiny.
Pascale Fung, Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, Chinaa and Bertram Shi, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China speaking in the Hacking Machines for Humanity with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology session at the at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Betazone. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Faruk Pinjo
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Venturing in the humanistic part of the university sometimes has its advantages. Not only because the population there is quite different from the one in my department (you can imagine yourself the average specimen in a computer engineering department), but also because of some nice findings. For instance today the entrance was full of origami pending from the ceiling. Nobody was there to explain to me why.
Originally posted: www.dzanni.com/home/2013/2/28/cranes
This is the battle bots arena from above. This top down photo was taken from the second floor of the Wilkinson Center.
To enjoy my other creative project, please visit my funny short stories website: 500ironicstories.com where you can read or listen to new stories each week. I have also curated the stories into three different selections:
Stories for Kids - 500ironicstories.com/stories-for-kids Love Stories - 500ironicstories.com/love-story
Moral Stories - 500ironicstories.com/moral-stories
Pascale Fung, Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, Chinaa and Bertram Shi, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China speaking in the Hacking Machines for Humanity with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology session at the at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Betazone. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Faruk Pinjo
Classes started this week at BYU. I’m teaching a class for freshmen (ECEn191 – Electrical and Computer Engineering New Student Seminar) and one for graduate students (ECEn555 – Optoelectronics). Before the beginning of each class, I asked the students to pose for a photo so I could remember the moment. The attitude and excitement level is striking. Ah, to be an optimistic freshman again.
For more fun with jaded grad students see: www.flickr.com/photos/aaronrhawkins/22059547330/
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James Kelly, right, a computer engineering and electrical engineering undergraduate, and Miles Hanbury, left, a computer engineering undergraduate, work together in one of the EECS labs on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.
Their current project is to design as “smart” aquarium, one that will allow a pet owner to have video streamed to their wearable device, as well as to automatically feed the fish when traveling. This is their project for the EECS 373 Expo scheduled for early December.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Colorado State University and the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering announce a gift of a customized C-band radar, from Viasala, an international company that develops, manufacturers and markets environmental and industrial measurement products. January 27, 2017
More than 25 degrees in technology and innovation are offered on the Polytechnic campus. Lab learning is crucial to these disciplines.
"there's no crying in ice skating"
Today the light was dwindling as I headed out for my daily photo adventure, as I found my way to the middle of a now frozen Tenny Pond I saw a plethora of skaters. Some appeared to be veteran and some just rookies out on the ice for the first time. Without skates, I was at a disadvantage for speed but I found myself focused on the man in the black vest. I was shy at first (which is something new for me with a stranger) but as he looked to be quite inexperienced on the skates I didn't want to startle him. As he came to a stop a few feet from me he nearly fell, I took it in stride and caught up to him. He smiled as he got up from the ice, and asked me if I was a "professional" photographer: alas I am a working photographer not professional by any means.
I introduced myself as Chris, the everyday Madison photographer. He introduced himself as Khalid, a student of English (as a second language) transplanted from Saudi Arabia. He has called the isthmus home for the last year and half while doing his studying, once his English courses are completed he plans on taking up computer engineering in the fall. I asked him how long he had been skating (although I've never full learned myself) and was happy to find he had only been skating for the last 30 minutes. Skating on the ice is an opportunity he never had while living in Saudi Arabia, and Khalid told me that he hopes to perfect the skill during his time in Madison. A very honorable skill to have, given the way this winter is going I'm sure he will get lot's of practice. I decided to a include everything in frame as I was making an environmental portrait, ice skates and all. As his friends called him over to continue his skating I got Khelids' email address so that I could share this photo with him. I'm sure his family and friends back home will enjoy it as much as I did in learning his story. If you find this story interesting and wish to find more, I suggest you check out the 100 strangers group here on flickr, also feel free to gander through either my 100 more strangers set here. When I was leaving the park I overheard a small child crying, her father or grandfather (I'm not sure which) exclaimed to her "there's no crying in ice skating," I found this phrase to best fit with my write-up for Khalid. Best wishes for a happy new year to all the followers of my pictures and adventures!
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