Offer incense sticks (Kamakura - Japan)

red incense sticks

bastons d'encens vermells.

Cinnamon Smell Incense Sticks

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Phuoc An Hoi Quan Pagoda (Hội quán Phước An)

Address: 184 Hùng Vương, Phường 12, Quận 5, Sài Gòn, Việtnam

Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật

Incense sticks

Had a hard time choosing my odd photo, A. likes this one best, I just couldn’t choose 🤔.

This is almost 6 cm.

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Close up of Hsinbyume Pagoda with the jungle and the Ayeyarwadi as the backdrop. It is painted white probably because Hsinbyume means "white elephant lady."

The stone pile in the right is to mark the edge of Mingun Pagoda for tourists not to fall on the ground 50 m below.

Incense sticks were inserted into the pile for unknown reasons.

The golden stupa belongs to the Bawdhiwine Bhone Kyee monastery.

HMM!

rose incense sticks

The Buddha Said — Alan Watts ft. Akira The Don

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And so, that is a nice little tangle

If I put this in the language

Of oriental philosophy and religion

It would be something like this

The Buddha said that wisdom

Must come only from the

Abandonment of selfish craving, or desire

The Buddha said that wisdom

Must come only from the

Abandonment of selfish craving, or desire

One who abandons that desire attains nirvana

Which is supreme peace liberation

Nirvana means, in Sanskrit blow out

That is, exhale the breath exhale the breath

The opposite, dеsire, is to breathe in

Now, if you brеathe in, and hold it

You lose your breath

But if you breathe out, it comes back to you

It comes back to you

The Buddha said that wisdom

Must come only from the

Abandonment of selfish craving, or desire

The Buddha said that wisdom

Must come only from the

Abandonment of selfish craving, or desire

So the principle here is if you want life

Don't cling to it let go

Let go

But the problem is if I desire not to desire

Is that not already desire?

How can I desire not to desire?

How can I surrender myself

When myself is precisely an urge to hold on

To cling?

To cling to life, to continue to survive

To survive to survive

The Buddha said that wisdom

Must come only from the

Abandonment of selfish craving, or desire

The Buddha said that wisdom

Must come only from the

Abandonment of selfish craving, or desire

I can see rationally

That by clinging to myself

I may strangle myself

I may be like a person who has a bad habit

As a result of which he is committing suicide

And he knows that but can't give it up

Because the means of death are so sweet

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Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong’s only landlocked district, is home to an intriguing mix of temples and towers, colour and calm, a heady mix that’s quintessentially Hong Kong. The neighbourhood is named after the god Wong Tai Sin; his portrait can be found inside the vibrant Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, where believers flock to present offerings and ask for good fortune. The temple draws the biggest crowds on the eve of Chinese New Year, when visitors rush in to burn their incense sticks for luck at the stroke of midnight. - HONG KONG TOURISM BOARD

It was another challenging theme for me.

About 10 out of 200 photos show acceptable results.

Thank you, Macro-Monday-team for the Lessons Learned!

(Need incense sticks for the next try 😇)

For #MacroMondays and this week's theme #Smoke.

Happy Macro Monday!

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The burning of incense sticks is a traditional practice in a Toist temple. When praying, people hold burning incense and hope that the smoke will deliver the prayers to the gods. After that, they put them in the big bowl shaped香爐.

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This image was created using Incense Sticks, the Aroma was so strong that I was banished to the Garden Shed........is this what they call suffering for your Art ??

Incense sticks !! Prayer time at the Buddha Temple

I was trying to focus on the incense sticks and have the monk praying to Buddha as bokeh !

A rather unusual photo for me. I'm usually never that close when I take photos of people. But here the people didn't even care about me and the camera, they were focused on lighting the incense sticks.

Smoke from incense sticks creates lovely and random abstracts.

near the tomb of the King Tu Duc, Hué, Vietnam

soundtrack: Take Five

(This jazz standard got its title from the 5⁄4 beat / meter, which is unusual especially for jazz songs)

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I let those five incense sticks burn down rather than reek to get a flame image for Crazy Tuesday - theme of April 27, 2021: On Fire

I had to be fast(ish) especially because the further the incense sticks burned the more they moved during the take (they virtually tipped over), creating rather blurry images

😄 HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄 , everyone

(very busy day - so I will catch up later in the evening)

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Ich habe fünf Räucherstäbchen abbrennen lassen (statt sie 'rauchen' zu lassen) für ein Flammenbild für Crazy Tuesday - Thema am 27. April 2021: On Fire / in Flammen

Ich musste relativ schnell sein, denn je weiter die Räucherstäbchen abbrannten, desto mehr bewegten sie sich während der Aufnahme (sie kippten quasi um), was viele ziemlich unscharfe Bilder ergab ...

Habt einen schönen Dienstag-Nachmittag : )

Taken with a black backdrop a diffused LED light and a couple of incense sticks for the smoke effect.

Photography of two incense sticks and the smoke they produced, with their fragrance they aromatize the places and the smoke they produce, is like a ghost that envelops the environment.

Fotografía de dos palos de incienso y el humo que producían, con su fragancia aromatizan los lugares y el humo que producen, es como un fantasma que envuelve el ambiente.

Wat Doi Ku Kham, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/5.6, 85mm, 1/80s

Incense sticks burning. In a completely dark room, I used the flash to freeze the smoke and half a second exposure to capture the burning fire. Strobe : 1 * 1/2 through softbox on right triggered by Cactus. Reflector on left.

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Home work, exploring fume of incense sticks

The Kuan Yin Temple that graced Penang since 1928. It was built by the early immigrant settlers from China, in honour of the Chinese Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin.

Worshippers are burning incense sticks for good luck and blessings.

I took the photo in 1983 with my analog Nikon FE camera and 35mm slide film, and later digitalised by using a Nikon Coolscan 4000D film scanner.

©This photo is the property of Helga Bruchmann. Please do not use my photos for sharing, printing or for any other purpose without my written permission. Thank you!

Les fantômes danseurs

Smoke of two incense sticks, blue filter on the flash and a really dark room :)

Worker Arranging Red Incense Sticks to Dry Near Quang Phu Cau, Vietnam

A local craft business, where people could order incense sticks in any size and individual decorative designs

(George Town, Malaysia 1983)

The photo was taken in 1983 with my analog Nikon FE camera and 35mm slide film, and now scanned with Nikon Coolscan 4000D film scanner.

This photo is the property of Helga Bruchmann. Please do not use my photos for sharing, printing or for any other purpose without my written permission. Thank you!

143/365 .. from incense sticks against a gray linen dress.

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Fun in the studio creating Smoke Trails from Incense Sticks.

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Agarbathi or the incense sticks are very popular in Indian homes and for prayers.

The basic ingredients of an incense stick are bamboo sticks, joss paste and perfume ingredients.

This miniature elephant showcases traditional Indian handicraft . The base plate collects the falling ash . A couple of rose petals can be seen.

Today is Ganesh Chaturthi , an important festival in India !

Bangkok's Chinatown

A little shop with a colorful offering - incense sticks, somewhere in Vietnam.

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Fabbrica di bastoncini d'incenso, esposti al sole per asciugatura.

Incense sticks factory, exposed to the sun for drying.

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Placing incense-sticks at the Buddhist temple Sensō-ji.

Sensō-ji was originally founded in 645, making it the oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo. According to legend it all began when two fishermen found a statue of the Kannon in the nearby river in 628 (they now are venerated in a nearby Shinto shrine: the Asakusa Shrine - Asakusa and Sensō are written with the same kanjis, by the way: 浅草 which can be read both ways). During the Tokugawa shogunate (beginning in 1603) Tokugawa Ieyasu chose Sensō-ji to be the tutelary temple of his clan. Earlier the temple was associated with the Tendai sect, but after World War II the temple went independent.

Hey folks, I used to be THE thing! Woodstock on water! Guitars, colorful clothes, freedom, and love all aboard! And now? Here I am, chilling with my stylish 70s blanket, waiting for the next generation of cool souls who can still hear the rhythm of the ocean. So, who’s got a guitar and is up for some Peace, Love & Rock’n’Roll?

Some say I’m just an old boat… But hey, back in the 70s, I was the hottest hangout for free spirits! This was the place to chill, philosophize, and maybe stare a little too deeply into the sunset. Who’s bringing the incense sticks? I’m ready for a revival! 🌈🎶

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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:

At a first glance, the photo above may appear to show the slightly gruesome scene of a flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) munchin' on a hairy scoliid wasp (Scolia hirta), but that's in fact not what is happening here.

To provide some context: I'd discovered this beautiful female M. vatia a few days prior to taking the photo. I love photographing spiders, and particularly when I find one of the crab variety - of which there are at least 4 different species present in my garden - I make sure to visit it regularly, always in the hope of catching it with prey (somewhat morbid of me, I know, but the way these arachnids hunt is just endlessly fascinating and makes for great photos).

They are pretty territorial; once a spider has settled on a flower where the harvest is plentiful - which is to say the plant gets visited often by insects and thus provides a steady stream of fresh victims - it will try to ride that "gravy train" for as long as possible and remain lurking inside (or just underneath) that flower, which will allow you to locate it again.

The individual in the photo had chosen my peppermint plants as her hunting grounds, which made sense, because even though she wasn't exactly well camouflaged in them (as you can see here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... ), the flowers of this exquisitely fragrant herb attracted more insects than any other plant blooming at the same time in my garden.

But something was off in the land of mint: whenever I visited Mrs. Crab Spider over the course of several days, I never found her with prey. At first I thought she had chosen her hunting grounds poorly after all, because she was so easily visible the insects were probably thinking: "Nice try, but I know my peppermint flowers, and you sure don't look like one!"

Yet when I stuck around for a bit and closely observed her for a few minutes, this hypothesis quickly came undone, because there was certainly no shortage of potential victims landing right in front of the spider: one apparently suicidal honeybee even literally shoved its bum into the spider's face, and she didn't move a muscle! And the same was true for the hairy scoliid wasps, as you can see in the photo above.

This was very confusing behavior, because even if the spider hadn't been hungry when I first found her (maybe after just devouring a calorie-rich bumblebee), her appetite should have come back by now, and I witnessed no sign of it. It made no sense: was this perhaps a vegetarian spider? Had I come across the next step in arachnid evolution and found the first individual sticking to an exclusive diet of tofu and quinoa?

What I saw puzzled me, and I needed answers. If this crab spider was neither eating bees nor wasps (nor waiting for a flying soy bean to miraculously land on the peppermint flower) - what was going on here? Was this maybe a deeply spiritual spider on the path to enlightenment adhering to the ancient principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings?

Indeed, when I leaned in closer to better observe her, I thought I caught a whiff of incense sticks (granted, it might have only been the fragrance of the peppermint, but I started to like the idea of a "hippy spider" in my garden 😉 ). The longer I thought about it, the more it made sense: the spider's motionless pose wasn't that of a lurking predator ready to strike as I foolishly had been assuming - this spider was in fact MEDITATING (or at the very least doing Yoga).

The next day I wanted to visit my enlightened friend again, but to my chagrin I couldn't find her in the peppermint plants. After a careful search of the area I was relieved when I finally spotted her; she had climbed up into the phlox and now resided approximately fifty centimeters above her previous location, in the midst of the bright pink blooming flowers (I wouldn't have been surprised to find her reading a tiny version of Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha', holding it tight with all eight legs, but she was just doing her previous meditation/Yoga pose 😉 )

For what happened next, however, I was NOT prepared: as I was watching, a green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) landed right in front of my hippy spider - who caught the poor bugger faster than you can say "tofu" and immediately started sucking the life out of him.

"And there goes the ancient principle of nonviolence right out the window...", I thought to myself as I went to get the camera. Either I had been wrong in my previous assessment, or Mrs. Crab Spider wasn't a strict ideologue (or just a good ole' hypocrite like the rest of us 😉 ); in any case, she obviously enjoyed her meal very much, even spinning the fly around like a corn cob (here's a photo, in case you're interested: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... )

What I eventually did realize though, and I'm not joking for once, was that I had indeed observed a very interesting behavior: this flower crab spider had specialized on a particular prey. Over the course of two weeks, I only ever saw her catch flies (who were omnipresent on the phlox, but rarely visited the peppermint), while she ignored any insect with a sting, regardless how close and easy to grab it might have been.

To my knowledge, this was very unusual. Misumena vatia is a notorious bee killer, and I myself had witnessed many a careless honey bee fall victim to this highly skilled predator in my garden over the years (here's just one example: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-... ).

Although I have zero proof for this, I suspect my choosy spider simply wanted to avoid the risk of getting stung; perhaps because she'd learned from past experience that the pointy end of bees and wasps can be quite painful - or maybe this was innate behavior that occurs in some individuals but not in others.

In any case, I was half relieved and half disappointed by this outcome; on the one hand it was good to know this beautiful arachnid wouldn't starve to death in my garden for a lack of tofu - but on the other I had really liked the idea of a spider on the path to enlightenment and was now a bit saddened that there would probably never be a commune of tiny, eight-legged hippies in my garden. 😉

As always, many thanks for reading and commenting: have a great remaining week everyone! And on a very personal note, let me again express my gratitude for all the best wishes I got from you after my hand surgery (which thankfully went well: as you can see, I'm already able to bore you with my usual overlong photo descriptions again ;-) - thank you guys, so, so much!! ❤🙏😊