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mimosa pudica
a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched, re-opening within minutes. Mimosa pudica is native to Brazil, but is now a pantropical weed.
pudica means bashful or shrinking beacause of its curious nature.
The plant lajjalu described in Ayurveda has been identified as Mimosa pudica. This plant has several alternate Sanskrit common names, including Namaskari, and Rakta Paadi.
In Ayurveda, the plant is described as a plant which folds itself when touched and spreads its leaves once again after a while. It is said to have a bitter and astringent taste, and has a history of use for the treatment of various ailments. Most commonly used is the root, but leaves, flowers, bark, and fruit can also be implemented.
Ayurvedan Properties (guna) of Lajjalu
* Has tikta and kashaya rasa (bitter and astringent taste).
* Has property of cold (sheetha).
* Balances kapha, pitta.
* Shushrutha has placed this plant in Priyangwambhastaadi gana.
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"Ooh I wanna touch the sky
I wanna fly so high
Ooh I wanna hold you
I wanna love you tonight
Ooh I wanna touch the sky
I wanna fly so high
Oooh I wanna satisfy
I wanna make you cry"
(Sonique)
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Reaching up to touch the skies
That spread wide before my eyes
As i look up and i stare
At the branches. so very bare
That spread wide under the skies
Placing beauty into all eyes
I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.
This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.
Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)
* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.
Music touches ! Touching originates from touch to keyboards, which in turn emits sequence of spheres of touching waves filling up the space …
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Last light on Lembert Dome, from the Tuolumne Meadows Campground. The plane of the face is almost in the sun direction, so the portions that stick out a bit still catch the light. The parallel grooves at the lower left are the Water Cracks, an enjoyable 5.7 or 5.8 climb for folks starting out in climbing and going with a reliable leader.
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Susie likes people. She's not afraid, and although I don't let her on me, she will sometimes reach out and touch when I sit out on the deck.
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Actually clouds are to be on everyone's lips. This fact gives me the inspiration to create a contest. Please have a look www.flickr.com/groups/ngproinvitation/discuss/72157623873...
During this hike we touch the cloud a few times. Inside it's foggy and cold and you feel the wish arise to reach the sun as soon as possible.
I spend a lot of time for postprocessing. The overexposured clouds lets me doubt that it's not worthy for do work on it. But I found a way to recover it with the Capture NX Raw converter. There is a possibility to adjust the exposure there. So I did three different exposures from one raw and blended it after.
From Malbun we have the choice of hiking up or taking the chairlift to the mountain station at Sareis. From there, the Fürstin-Gina-Weg path follows the ridge path to the Sareiserjoch, where it runs into the ascending route from the Nenzinger Himmel and the path becomes more challenging. From here it's uphill between alpine flowers and along small craggy paths to the highest point of the tour, Augstenberg, at 2,359 meters above sea level with a large cross on the peak and a glorious sweeping view. The following ridge path to Pfälzerhütte (hut) is challenging, sometimes steep and secured with wire ropes at exposed parts.