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I have enough. This, Bach's Cantata 82, begins with one of the most exquisite of Bach's arias. The duet of the the human voice with the oboe seems to be directed only to the soul. What more could any soul have than this understanding of enough?
Vivaldi walked over to his violin. Anna moved beside him. While the Maestro tuned the instrument, both musicians began studying the manuscript. Gradually, the spoken word became sung and the sung word became bowed. “Ich Habe Genug” was responding to an unfamiliar breath of life. As the clock chimed eight, the three musicians gathered around the harpsichord, Vivaldi to Bach’s left and Anna to his right. Anna and Bach shared one manuscript; Vivaldi read from a manuscript poised on the harpsichord. Only Paolina and Crespi remained as audience. The Elder Bach raised his index nger. On a unifed in-breath, the three musicians melded and gave in to the music. Vivaldi supported the voice of the lover of Jesus. “Ich habe genug”—Antonia’s voice soared in from the firmament as supplicant on the hovering wings of the Holy Ghost. In the union with her Saviour, she was at one again with Orlando. “So may I leave in joy; it is enough.” The final bars were of sheer divine intimacy and surcease. One voice, one violin, one harpsichord and one directing hand as Bach painted the last brush-stroke. The Venetians looked to the German for the way out of the music, the applause of Paolina and Crespi almost inaudible to them.
From Antonia of Venice by eep
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May Peace, Love, and Understanding saturate your 2021!!
Crassula Campfire (Crassula Capitella) in late afternoon light.
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1974 song written by English singer/songwriter Nick Lowe. Initially released by Lowe in 1974, the song did not chart. The song was most famously covered by Elvis Costello & the Attractions and released as a B-side to Lowe's 1978 solo single "American Squirm." The cover saw great popularity and was later included on the American version of Costello's 1979 album Armed Forces. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(What%27s_So_Funny_%27Bout)_Peace,_Love,_and_Understanding
Sony a6400. Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens. 135mm, F5.6, 1/250 sec, ISO 200. Thanks for viewing.
According to my narrow understanding of failure and success, I considered all photos from that night as unuseable and kind of
lesson to myself. To work with a new camera made me feel excited for weeks, especially an H-Alpha astromodified one, that increases the visibility of hydrogen nebuleae in the night sky, that appear in a typical red colour. Just stupid to not setup the camera format from jpeg to raw - because one is a compressed format with low post possessing options while the raw format gives you all freedom to readjust your settings afterwards, especially the necessary whitebalance which is shifted into red due to the modification. Applause.
One year later, I realized the actual beauty of these Images and the great advantage of making mistakes in Photography. Somewhen, I started to play around with the settings of these very „uneditable“ files. The shift of colours remained, but the strange looking results became more beautiful and I started to like that style. Damn, now this is a lesson… I edited these images to get a solid natural looking foreground and the weird color mix of the sky wasn’t just in my responsibility. It’s just jpeg.
During that first night at Tenerife, in the Caldera de las Cañadas, I was haphazardly lost by the amount of possible photo compositions, but in the end I got attracted by a nice looking rock at the Minas de San José and used this as main subject for the night.
Furthermore, I released a Photography Documentary about Astrophotography at the Teide National Park in Tenerife including a Photo Series of tracked Milky Way Panos. If you want to see the complete Photo Series check:
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Pano / H-Alpha Mod
Nikon D800a & AF-S 50mm f/1.8
21x ISO 2000 - f/2.5 - 10 sec
Remember the inner demanding voice of your childhood that urged you to approach the ice cream truck whenever it rolled around? This little boy did not hesitate when he saw it. He parked his bike with determination.
Skillman Park. (That has a real alternate name, I believe.) Sunnyside, New York
"How could rocks and sand and silence make us afraid and yet be so wonderful?”
- Edna Brush Perkins, The White Heart of Mojave, 1922
Finally visited Death Valley over the holidays, and, as always when visiting a new-to-me National Park, I left a little piece of my soul, there. Death Valley is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I thought I was prepared. I thought it would be similar to other long awaited first visits to other national parks where the experience feels familiar and welcoming, as if you are stepping into a book that you’ve read for a very long time. Death Valley did not do this to me. No book can prepare you for Death Valley. The only way to become acquainted with the inconceivable vastness of the valley and sand and salt that’s only defined by towering walls of stony mountains is to be immersed in it. Death Valley is a challenge. It is a challenge to understand and experience and exist in. To be here is to be immersed in a forbidding environment and accept that this miraculous landscape is not for the faint of heart. I’ll be back, Death Valley. We have more work to do.
This is nine photos, stitched together, in Lightroom.
The sun shines through the leaves and branches of a Chinese Banyan tree at the Punch Bowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The camera saw the branches as black silhouettes and the sky as white. The wide dynamic range of the raw file enabled lightening of the shadows and darkening the highlights in LR to visualize blue in the sky and detail in the bark of the tree.
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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I turned off the comment boxes. I feel bad because I just don't have it in me to comment right now on anything. Sorry. I appreciate you guys a lot though.
My understanding with Buddhist teachings is that all the pleasures, happiness, well-beings, fortune, good health etc are all illusionary and temporal in life. They are just like bokeh and you would not be grabbing it tightly.
So Buddha is teaching us to understand the fact and to get rid of the desire or greed in getting more of those well-beings. The greed is just the source of your pain in life.
However I did see a lot of people saying prayers and burning the incense in Buddhist Temple. They plead for good health, fortune or all kinds of well-beings in the prayers. I over-heard it when I took this shot.
Is this a very strange thing and it contradicts the Buddhist teaching?
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This little American Pika can be forgiven for not understanding the coming devastating effects of climate change. It has a brain that is about the size of a lima bean which is engaged primarily in day to day survival. Many pikas never see a human being, so they can be forgiven for not understanding that we are directly responsible for the global warming that may very well cause the demise of some of their populations in parts of North America.
No such forgiveness should be granted to a U.S. President who, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, simply chooses to not believe that humans are responsible for climate change.
The National Climate Assessment draws on input from 13 federal agencies, including NASA and the Defense Department, with contributions from 300 scientists. The latest volume spans more than 1,600 pages, and a key recurring theme is that climate change will be devastating...
POTUS, response: "I don't believe it".
Tell it to the pika President T.
The Mythology Behind the White Stag
Despite the broad spectrum of beliefs, the stag is consistently symbolic for a number of themes such as purity - with the unusual white coat symbolising an unwavering innocence. The appearance of the stag is also synonymous with the delivery of a message or great change.
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The White Stag has a message for you.. wishing peace and understanding for new beginings in 2025.
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A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published Feb. 24 reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and strange magnetic pulses.
Brad Zavodsky is the mission manager for InSight as part of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Planetary Missions Program Office. Marshall’s chief scientist, Renee Weber, is a co-investigator on the mission and has been part of InSight since its inception in 2010.
InSight is the first mission dedicated to looking deep beneath the Martian surface. The two largest quakes detected by NASA's InSight appear to have originated in a region of Mars called Cerberus Fossae. Scientists previously spotted signs of tectonic activity here, including landslides. This image was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Listening to the stories of others and putting yourself in their shoes can go such a long way toward greater understanding and being better equipped for whatever lies before you. It is amazing how different a scenario can look when you have a perspective-shift and begin to view the world through the eyes of another.
This photo is from Sylvan Lake at Custer State Park in South Dakota.
All birds in sharp focus. How is that possible ?
Understanding depth of field(DOF) has been a major challenge for a lot of beginners. This is one of the most repeated question I have come across.
Canon 1DM4 + Canon 400mm f2.8 L IS2, ISO 800, f3.2 @ 1/8000, Evaluative Metering -2/3 Stop. But high ISO had over exposed the image and had to correct it in processing.
DOF is dependent on 3 important parameters:
1) Focal length: shorter the mm, larger is the DOF. Longer the mm, shallow is the DOF.
2) Camera to subject distance: DOF is large for far away subjects. DOF is shallow for near subjects.
3) Aperture: Small f number gives shallow DOF and large f number gives large DOF.
In this case since the birds were far away, even at f3.2 I have got a decent DOF to get most birds in sharp focus.
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This site was the reason for my trip to Sardinia as I had to see this with my own eyes, how they build this can not be explained if you believe in the history told by archeologists, this is just so far beyond all the other historical sites they build, it was clearly build by master masons who had incredible understanding of the astronomical events. Also the precission is just mind blowing. The other sites were stunning as well, but this is right up there with the pyramids of Gizah which I still have to visit some day.
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The Pozzo Sacro di Santa Cristina (Holy Well of Santa Cristina) is widely considered the masterpiece of Nuragic architecture. Located near Paulilatino, Sardinia, this temple dates back to approximately 1100–1000 BC. Unlike the rugged, megalithic look of most Nuraghi, this sacred well is famous for its isodomic masonry—basalt blocks cut with such surgical, millimetric precision that they look modern.
The Architecture
The structure consists of a keyhole-shaped enclosure (temenos) that leads to a trapezoidal staircase of 25 steps. These steps descend into a subterranean chamber with a beehive-shaped dome (tholos), roughly 7 meters high, which protects a natural spring. The geometry is so perfect that as you descend, the ceiling creates an "inverted staircase" effect above you.
Astronomical Significance
For decades, scholars and archaeoastronomers (most notably Arnold Lebeuf) have studied the well as a sophisticated celestial observatory. Its design aligns with both the sun and the moon with incredible accuracy:
1. The Solar Equinoxes
Twice a year, during the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes (March and September), the sun aligns perfectly with the angle of the staircase. At midday, sunlight travels down the stairs and illuminates the water at the bottom.
The "Double Shadow": If you stand on the bottom steps during this time, you can witness a unique optical phenomenon: your shadow is projected both onto the water and upside-down onto the walls of the inner chamber.
2. The Lunar Standstill (Lunistice)
The most extraordinary feature is its lunar alignment. Every 18.6 years, a phenomenon called the Major Lunar Standstill occurs. At this peak, the moon reaches its highest point in the sky.
The vertical "oculus" (the hole at the top of the dome) was positioned so that during this rare event, the moonlight falls perfectly vertically through the opening, reflecting directly in the center of the water mirror below.
Note: We are currently in a lunar standstill period (peaking in 2024–2025), making this a particularly significant time for the site.
Cultural Meaning
The well was likely a sanctuary dedicated to a water cult, where the liquid represented the "womb" of the Earth. The marriage of water (Earth) and light (Heaven) during these astronomical alignments suggests the Nuragic people saw the cosmos and the Earth as a single, connected living system.
Old Schools, University of Cambridge. Taken yesterday during the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the University and Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
More on Sikhism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism .
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From my garden and my heart I give you the gift of love. For a whole year now since my current illness began I was unable to tend my garden, but my garden has unconditional love and understanding and still furnishes me with gifts such as this. From nature I learn so much. Wish you all a very happy weekend <3
“We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.”
- Joichi Ito
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR0KElxxVg
I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING – THE NEW SEEKERS
How beautiful the world appears to me
through peaceful soul transfers tranquility
my heart is full with love and understanding
like milk and honey; sweet and nourishing thoughts are landing
little seeds of hope erasing doubt
sown now will grow and chase blue feelings out
encase me in a bubble with rainbows overhead
allow me gentle sleep to dream and cast out anxious dread
I kneel and pray before I fall in slumber
and listen for the answers; some come as numbers
these are the messages from angels voices
and in the night deciphering and making better choices
I wake before the dawn has chance to break
the little birds already singing make my heart ache
but not with sadness; more in yearning for the truth
I pray for words to seek me out; not be aloof
and like a gentle stream that carries boats from every nation
my ears receive the sounds with such elation
I see a future bound with endless gifts of love
for each and everyone on earth from Heaven above
reach out your hands and look towards your neighbour
and see reflected there the efforts of their labour
like looking into mirrored glass we see the souls
that are our own and theirs; life takes it's toll
but we can make things better for one and all
if only we let our inner light shine bright and tall
no matter who you are or where you're from
smile at your fellow man; let peace and love succumb
don't fight against each other; lay down arms
for we are in this life together; you and I
and all of us are hurting; I hear your cry
but if you stop to listen to the wind
you'll hear my plea more clearly and rescind
I hear your voice; I share in your humility
If you can but perceive the possibility
that yesterday you thought I was your enemy
but today and all the morrows I hope you now see
that I was not at all what you first thought
and changing minds is not a sign of weakness wrought
but more a sign of intelligent supposition
to merge our futures is not at all submission
it is a sign of strength; a sign of love
of hope and peace; sent freely from above
and once the world is ready for this change
we'll see that pain is gone and peace will reign
for quite often we make bad choices and some worse
forgiveness is the forefront to give peace a chance; rebirth
look in your neighbour's eyes; what do you see
that I am you and you are me and so is he.
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“Understanding is the bridge between two minds; love is the bridge between two souls.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
Artwork by British artist Martin Creed at his exhibition SAY CHEESE! in Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar, Holland.
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when someone can truly look into you and know you and really see what you are and how you think and what you would do. when someone has been looking for so long for the things that they have always had within themselves, but needed the right mirror. the right mirror.
double exposure on the hasselblad.