Hamza standing in tall autumn grass at Rattlesnake Point, a quarry lake and the evening sky behind him

Hamza Elkababji

Based in: London, ON
Studying: Software Eng.
Co-founded: WE AutoPilot
Shooting: X-T2, 23mm f/2

Places

Born in Amman, then Dammam, Bahrain and London, Ontario. Everything after that is trips. Scroll and the car drives them in order.

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01 Amman, Jordan: Where it all started.
02 Dammam, Saudi Arabia
03 Amman, Jordan, Back home
04 Saar, Bahrain
05 Manama, Bahrain
06 London, Ontario, Canada, New home
07 Philadelphia, United States
08 New York, United States
09 Istanbul, Türkiye: Istanbul, and Türkiye: my favourite country so far.
10 Calgary, Canada, Alberta
11 Canmore, Canada: What made me fall in love with mountains.
12 Banff, Canada: What made me fall in love with mountains.
13 Vancouver, Canada, British Columbia
14 Victoria, Canada, British Columbia
15 London, Ontario, Canada: Studying Software Engineering at Western.
16 Bolton, Ontario, Canada: Sixteen months as a software controls engineer at Husky Technologies.
17 Toronto, Canada, Harbour at blue hour · 6 photos
18 Amsterdam, Netherlands, Favourite recent trip · 6 photos
19 Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, Windmills and green wooden houses · 4 photos
20 Bruges, Belgium · 7 photos
21 Ghent, Belgium · 3 photos
22 Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 6 photos
23 London, UK, United Kingdom · 12 photos
24 Oxford, UK, United Kingdom · 3 photos
25 Rattlesnake Point, Canada, Back in Ontario for the fall colours · 7 photos

Photos

Fujifilm X-T2, 2026

Back to the globe

A man in a cap stands at the chain railing of a boardwalk on Toronto's waterfront, a tall ship under sail on the lake behind him — Toronto23 Aug

Two people on a bench watch a small floating convenience store cross the harbour, framed by dark leaves — Toronto23 Aug

People blur past along the harbourfront promenade, sailboats moored behind them — Toronto23 Aug

A small boat leaves a long wake across the harbour toward the islands at dusk — Toronto23 Aug

Toronto's towers reflected in the windows of a moored boat's empty dining room at blue hour — Toronto23 Aug

Rows of empty seats seen through a scratched boat window at blue hour — Toronto23 Aug

A yellow bike leans against a sticker-covered wall in a narrow Amsterdam street — Amsterdam31 Aug

An Amsterdam canal and bridge seen through the green frame of a parked bike — Amsterdam31 Aug

A teddy bear holding a drink carton sits on a ledge in an old doorway — Amsterdam31 Aug

A black scooter parked under a stone Hollandsche building sign, in black and white — Amsterdam31 Aug

Red flowers on a bridge in the foreground, a tree-lined Amsterdam canal stretching away behind them — Amsterdam31 Aug

Canal houses glowing gold, reflected in the panes of an open window — Amsterdam31 Aug

A cyclist rides between stacked green Zaan-style houses under a bright sky — Zaanse Schans1 Sep

A rosehip and leaves in focus, a windmill's sails a soft silhouette against the sun behind — Zaanse Schans1 Sep

Green wooden houses and an arched footbridge reflected in still water — Zaanse Schans1 Sep

A yellow Audi R8 parked on a cobbled street in front of a white townhouse — Zaanse Schans1 Sep

A horse-drawn carriage crosses the market square in Bruges, framed by pink flowers overhead — Bruges3 Sep

A weeping willow hangs over a Bruges canal lined with old brick buildings — Bruges3 Sep

The red-and-white striped flag of Bruges flies above a canal house as a tour boat passes — Bruges3 Sep

A no-entry sign and a Dépôt d'O street sign on an ivy-covered brick corner — Bruges3 Sep

A dark stone passage opening onto a sunlit courtyard — Bruges3 Sep

A scooter mirror reflecting an ornate building, beside a red pole — Ghent3 Sep

Three tall white-framed windows in a weathered stone wall — Bruges3 Sep

A scooter rider rounds a cobbled corner beside a grand grey townhouse — Ghent3 Sep

Looking past the back of a man's head down a street of brick and white facades — Bruges3 Sep

A Gothic cathedral and a gabled hall lit by evening sun, a cyclist blurring past — Ghent3 Sep

Looking down through a gap at a sunlit park of hexagonal paving — Luxembourg5 Sep

A small church built into a cliff face, a stone stair climbing beside it — Luxembourg5 Sep

A yellow Volkswagen Beetle rounds a curve on a cobbled road, seen from above — Luxembourg5 Sep

A turreted stone tower glimpsed through out-of-focus leaves — Luxembourg5 Sep

The slate roofs of Luxembourg's Grund district stacked below the cliffs — Luxembourg5 Sep

White houses and a bridge reflected in the still river — Luxembourg5 Sep

A red phone box and a passing red bus in front of a grand stone building — London, UK9 Sep

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament across Westminster Bridge on a bright day — London, UK9 Sep

A red double-decker bus passes in the foreground with Big Ben ahead — London, UK9 Sep

A quiet modern street corner, a yellow bollard on a small traffic island — London, UK9 Sep

A thin bronze figure with outstretched arms under a single spotlight in a dark gallery — London, UK9 Sep

A striped fish and chips van parked under trees, in black and white — London, UK9 Sep

The London Eye and the Thames, seen past a souvenir stall's price tags — London, UK9 Sep

Westminster in silhouette against the evening sky, framed by leaves — London, UK9 Sep

Punts moored along a narrow river, trees leaning over the water — Oxford, UK10 Sep

A man in a dark suit walks past an ornate Gothic doorway in golden stone — Oxford, UK10 Sep

A carved baroque gateway in honey-coloured stone behind black iron railings — Oxford, UK10 Sep

A man sits on a red bench facing Tower Bridge — London, UK11 Sep

A tower of Tower Bridge and its blue suspension chains, a red bus crossing below — London, UK11 Sep

A red DLR train crosses a bridge above the still docks at Canary Wharf — London, UK11 Sep

A large building with a square opening reflected in dark dock water, a floating restaurant beneath it — London, UK11 Sep

A white sailboat on the blue reservoir, autumn trees on the far shore — Fanshawe Park4 Oct

A gull floats on choppy blue water — Fanshawe Park4 Oct

A bird lands on the water with its wings raised in a splash — Fanshawe Park4 Oct

Two people sail a small white sailboat on the lake — Fanshawe Park4 Oct

Two people fishing from a small aluminium boat below autumn trees — Fanshawe Park4 Oct

A small plane against a clear blue sky — Fanshawe Park4 Oct

A sailboat passes the pier at dusk, rocks in the foreground — Port Stanley9 Oct

A wave breaks against the rocks at sunset on Lake Erie — Port Stanley9 Oct

A blurred shoreline under a thin orange band of sunset — Port Stanley9 Oct

A hiker with a yellow backpack stands at the escarpment edge among autumn leaves — Rattlesnake Point10 Oct

A farm and green fields seen from the escarpment, framed by orange leaves — Rattlesnake Point10 Oct

A fallen, bleached tree trunk under a bare canopy, sun behind the branches — Rattlesnake Point10 Oct

Autumn trees and the limestone cliff of the escarpment, seen through red leaves — Rattlesnake Point10 Oct

The view over autumn forest from under a rock overhang — Rattlesnake Point10 Oct

A curving railway track runs toward an autumn ridge — Rattlesnake Point11 Oct

The Garage

Everything I use, one thing I retired, and a bay I’m keeping free.

X-T2 + 23mm f/2

Tamron 18–300mm

2× Lexar V60

Fujifilm X-T2XF23mm f/2 R WR, Tamron 18–300mmK&F variable NDs + K&F tripod2× Lexar 1667x V60 64 GBCustom film recipesTarion TB-S bagCards: the expensive part

Dell G15

Lofree Flow 2

Dell G15 5511Daily driveri7-11800H, RTX 306016 GB DDR4

Lofree Flow 284-key, low profile

Wishlist

MX Master 3S

Framework 13 or MacBook

Logitech MX Master 3SFramework Laptop 13 (DIY edition) or a MacBook… Grad gift to myself?

Retired: first build, age 14Ryzen 7 2700XRTX 206032 GB DDR4 (upgraded from 16 for Ubuntu dual boot)500 GB M.2 SSD plus hard drivesSince sold

Bay 04, reservedAudi Sport Quattro S1British racing green. Status: saving up.

Open on Sketchfab

src/content/garage.toml

[daily]
laptop   = "Dell G15 5511"
cpu      = "i7-11800H"
gpu      = "RTX 3060"
ram      = "16 GB DDR4"
keyboard = "Lofree Flow 2, 84-key"

[camera]
body    = "Fujifilm X-T2"
lenses  = ["XF23mm f/2 R WR", "Tamron 18-300mm"]
filters = "K&F variable ND (both lenses)"
tripod  = "K&F"
bag     = "Tarion TB-S, grey"
cards   = "2x Lexar 1667x V60 64 GB"   # the expensive part
recipes = "custom"

[retired]   # first build, age 14
cpu     = "Ryzen 7 2700X"
gpu     = "RTX 2060"
ram     = "32 GB DDR4"   # was 16, upgraded for Ubuntu dual boot
storage = "500 GB M.2 + HDDs"
status  = "sold"

[wishlist]
mouse  = "Logitech MX Master 3S"
laptop = "Framework Laptop 13 (DIY edition) or a MacBook"   # grad gift to myself?

[dream]
car    = "Audi Sport Quattro S1"
colour = "British racing green"
status = "saving up"
model  = "https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/audi-quattro-s1-402697365eaa41a68a543b71d0e0bfa8"

About

I’m Hamza. I study Software Engineering at Western University in London, Ontario. I love cars, video games, tennis, soccer, photography and more.

I co-founded WE AutoPilot, Western’s self-driving car club, and I lead its mapping and localization team. I just finished a sixteen-month co-op as a software controls engineer at Husky Technologies in Bolton. I was born in Amman, I built my first PC at 14, and lately most of my free time goes into a Fujifilm X-T2. Old cars are my favourite, and so is anywhere with water or mountains.

My work and résumé →

Hamza Elkababji

What I use now

Retired, and reserved

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