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A Repost - Today is the "Dragon Boat Festival Day, 2022. This is the food we eat in memory of such officer (read the background story below). You know, this holiday falls on a different day each year. That's why I totally forgot about it, but, I'll make it one of these days when I'm in the mood. It's a lot of work. My family love it. I taught myself to make them when I first came to the US, and craving for them. My zongzi is quite delicious, has got rave review. :-))
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"Many believe that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in ancient China based on the suicide of the poet and statesman of the Chu kingdom, Qu Yuan in 278 BCE.
The festival commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan, who was a loyal minister of the King of Chu in the third century BCE. Qu Yuan’s wisdom and intellectual ways antagonized other court officials, thus they accused him of false charges of conspiracy and was exiled by the king. During his exile, Qu Yuan composed many poems to express his anger and sorrow towards his sovereign and people.
Qu Yuan drowned himself by attaching a heavy stone to his chest and jumping into the Miluo River in 278 BCE at the age of 61. The people of Chu tried to save him believing that Qu Yuan was an honorable man; they searched desperately in their boats looking for Qu Yuan but were unable to save him. Every year the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated to commemorate this attempt at rescuing Qu Yuan.
The local people began the tradition of throwing sacrificial cooked rice into the river for Qu Yuan, while others believed that the rice would prevent the fishes in the river from eating Qu Yuan’s body. At first, the locals decided to make zongzi in hopes that it would sink into the river and reach Qu Yuan's body. However, the tradition of wrapping the rice in bamboo leaves to make zongzi began the following year."
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Just got back from our last camping/photography trip of the late summer season. It snowed on us! I'll be trying to catch up today on all the great photos from my friends and family! :)
I just got a new landscape lens for my birthday, a Canon, of course. :) We went to Mono Lake basin to try it out. I love this shot because of all of the textures and colors. The white "tufas" sticking out of the water make for great contrast and objects of interest.
Mono Lake is a very special lake, with a very unique ecology. Native American Indians called this place home, and utilized the brine shrimp that thrive in the salty mineral water. Mono Lake is ringed by ancient cinder cones (volcanic cores) and natural hot springs. Learn more about unique Mono Lake here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_Lake
from Avalon Park...
Since I posted this before in B&W, I have disabled the comments... but thank everyone who came to take a closer peek...
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Not finding the time to shoot lately so I've been going thru older images. This is a single image taken August 16, 2020 at 5:46am. No photoshop. Straight out of the camera.
We had no idea this storm was producing lightning when we left our home in Walnut Creek very early this Saturday morning. Dogs in tow, we were heading to the Marin Headlands to do a hike and catch the sunrise. We arrived at the bridge for this show and luckily my camera gear was in the trunk. I think I was the third photographer arriving at Battery Spencer. It was magical, photographers were screaming in delight. The composition is not great but, it's one of my all time favorite photography experiences. When the sun finally came up the hill was crowded with photographers.
This is another repost, taken thirteen years ago with my first DSLR. Even in those days I liked to try to shoot just about anything. I do remember the location, it was just outside my backdoor on a large cedar tree. I must have used a tripod as I could never have hand-held this long of an exposure even in those days.
I remember always being aware when going out the back door at night, in case it had built a web across the door, as it was a pretty decent size, and although I like spiders, I certainly don't want one caught in my hair, (which I had more of in those days.)
Reprocessed from my jpeg file which I had oversharpened at the time, so there was not much I could do about that, but I have always shot RAW, even then, but never used to keep the RAW files as they were so huge, and storage was not as cheap then as it is now. I do really wish that I would have saved more RAW files, as modern software and likely more refined processing skill, I am sure I could do much better these days than back then.
Having said all that, I was thrilled with this shot back then, and even now I am still quite happy with it.