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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Coast Redwod - amazing photo | bonsai
COAST REDWOOD
- a great reference shot! i'd been looking for a good profile of a coast redwood since i have been training one as a bonsai, and this one is absolutely incredible - a nearly impossible shot to get since these trees are so huge, and since they are in the forest(!) you can't just back up to get a shot like this! - - "It involved three cameras, a team of scientists, a robotic dolly, a gyroscope, an 83-photo composite and a lot of patience." more about this photo below, including video
- a great reference shot! i'd been looking for a good profile of a coast redwood since i have been training one as a bonsai, and this one is absolutely incredible - a nearly impossible shot to get since these trees are so huge, and since they are in the forest(!) you can't just back up to get a shot like this! - - "It involved three cameras, a team of scientists, a robotic dolly, a gyroscope, an 83-photo composite and a lot of patience." more about this photo below, including video
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i'm training a bonsai redwood - it will start to look like something in another 3 to 5 years; and then another 10! ...and then another 50!
longer branches will be removed or trimmed eventually (now at this age it still needs this leggy vegetation, so it doesn't look so great). it will begin to take shape later, with more short branches and less overall width.
longer branches will be removed or trimmed eventually (now at this age it still needs this leggy vegetation, so it doesn't look so great). it will begin to take shape later, with more short branches and less overall width.
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via Redwood Coast "Glad you like. It's too big for FB. Here's a larger image: http://bit.ly/QvneW6"- Humboldt State Natural History Museum: "We have a 40 foot version of this photo on display along with other cool redwood exhibits at our museum!"
Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever
National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols is one of the world's foremost wildlife photographers. But he recently said that he'd happily spend the rest of his life photographing trees. Of course, the folks over at National Geographic would almost certainly never hear of it. Nichols' newfound love developed after a serious, yearlong relationship with redwoods.
National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California's redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ. And if you've ever photographed in a forest, you'll understand the challenge this presented. There's no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.
In a recent lecture at National Geographic in Washington, D.C., Nichols described his frustrations. Eventually, though, he devised a way to do redwoods justice. It involved three cameras, a team of scientists, a robotic dolly, a gyroscope, an 83-photo composite and a lot of patience. (And, OK, maybe it's not the Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever — but it's the biggest one I've ever seen.) Here's how they did it:
Photographer Nick Nichols spent a year planning the nearly impossible: a top-to-bottom photograph of a 300-foot-tall redwood tree, now the centerpiece of the October issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Watch Nick in "Explorer: Climbing Redwood Giants" on the National Geographic Channel
Watch Nick in "Explorer: Climbing Redwood Giants" on the National Geographic Channel
The photograph appears as a huge foldout in the the October issue of National Geographic magazine, which hits newsstands today and is definitely worth reading. The magazine, with the help of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Save The Redwoods League, also sent explorer-in-residence Mike Fay on a transect from the southernmost redwood in Big Sur to the northernmost tree near Oregon's Chetco River. It took him and his hiking partner, Lindsey Holm, more than a year of non-stop hiking to complete the trek of more than 2,000 miles. It also took three pairs of shoes.
Redwoods have been heavily forested over the past few decades and are only just now beginning to replenish in numbers. With the enormous collection of data compiled by Fay and other conservationists, we now know more than ever about this thin stretch of ancient forest along the California coast. To learn more, check out the extensive coverage on ngm.com.
Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever : The Picture Show : NPR
Monday, December 5, 2011
new at what it is: red leaves, autumn wind update
updated presentation of a photo from last year
> what it is: red leaves, autumn wind update
original: what it is: red leaves, autumn wind
red leaves align
with force of wind
all the buddhas shout
see also
• whats more: autumn wind (not exactly haiku?)
俳句
Haiku (haikai verse), plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or on), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is inaccurate as syllables and moras are not the same. Haiku typically contain a kigo (seasonal reference), and a kireji (cutting word). In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line and tend to take aspects of the natural world as their subject matter, while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku and may deal with any subject matter.
• what it is: Fall in Mixed Woodland, Mendocino County
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
tara (110921)
new art -
"Tara reconstruction"
final
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| "Tara - she is everywhere" |
history
"Tara reconstruction" was created from photo what it is: ripped up (January 18, 2009)
dark!
see also
Within Tibetan Buddhism Tara is regarded as a Boddhisattva of compassion and action. She is the female aspect of Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig) and in some origin stories she comes from his tears...
more buddhist art
buddha 100407
tara 8790 (more)
Bhumisparsha Mudrā update
Bhumisparsha Mudrā
Vajrapani 100514
Diamond Sutra
Dharma Wheel & About Dharma
buddha cave
Links
• whats more: more about Buddhism
• Wikipedia
Tara
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Bhumisparsha Mudrā update | Life of Zen
Bhumisparsha Mudrā update
detail 1 -
" Mara demanded to know who would testify that Siddhartha was worthy of attaining ultimate wisdom. And his demon army rose up to support him. Siddhartha said nothing. He reached down and touched the ground, and the earth shuddered. "
previous / development: whats more: Bhumisparsha Mudrā | Young Urban Zen | Dalai Lama | Science meets Buddhism
detail 2 -
Life of Zen - sotozen.net
Life of Zen video
http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/eng/photos_videos/life_of_Zen/eng/movie_player_eng.html
see also: what next: Zen - Movie about Dogen
Banmei Takahashi's "Zen" - based on the life of Japanese Zen Master Dogen (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253).
Soto Zen Buddhism International Symposium
Soto Zen continues to spread around t he globe. Presently, there are more than 600 Soto Zen priests outside of Japan, and the teaching of Soto Zen continues to expand and develop beyond race and the confines of culture. It is in connection with these developments that we are planning to hold on October 4th, 2011, a Soto Zen Buddhism International Symposium called "Advance One Step Further - Soto Zen Opens The Way To The Future -". We plan to hold this symposium at the Tokyo Grand Hotel at Sotoshu Shumucho in Tokyo and will invite Sotoshu priests, practitioners, and temple members from around the world, as well as participants from Japan.
The keynote lecture will be given by Mr. Noriyuki Ueda, a scholar who is active in many spheres. He makes an appeal to "the Great Possibilities for Buddhism in Contemporary Society." During the symposium, a presentation will be made by each of the directors of the four Sotoshu regional offices (Hawaii, North America, South America and Europe) on the ways Soto Zen is growing overseas, a panel discussion on the future of Soto Zen as it takes root around the world, and a social gathering. As a way of introducing various Zen centers and temples within the four overseas districts to the audience, we plan to display information about them by way of television monitors. We also plan to exhibit and sell items that are made at these temples in their fundraising efforts.
I believe this will be a good opportunity for many people to get to know the situation of Soto Zen as it is developing outside of Japan. Please be sure to join us for this symposium.
Gassho,
Rev. Issho Fujita
Director, Soto Zen Buddhism International Center
see also: whats more: Workshop at the Zen Center with Issho Fujita
Shobogenzo Zuimonki
1.Zen Master Eihei Dogen and Koun Ejo
Shobogenzo Zuimonki consists of the dharma talks of Eihei Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) who transmitted Soto Zen from China to Japan. These talks were originally recorded by Koun Ejo Zenji, Dogen’s dharma successor, and probably edited by his disciples after Ejo’s death.
In this introduction, I’d like to briefly introduce Ejo Zenji since he is not as well known in the West as Dogen Zenji.
Ejo was born of a noble family, the Fujiwara, in Kyoto, in 1198. In 1215, at eighteen years of age, he was ordained as a Tendai monk under Master Enno at Yokawa on Mt. Hiei. He studied the fundamental philosophy of Buddhism; the Kusha (Abhidharmakosa-bhasya) Jojitsu (Satyasidhi-sastra), and Tendai teachings etc. However, he realized that studying for fame and profit or for high position in the Buddhist order was meaningless. Arousing bodhi-mind, he wanted to leave the monastery just as many other Buddhist leaders did in that age...
see also
• previous / development: whats more: Bhumisparsha Mudrā | Young Urban Zen | Dalai Lama | Science meets Buddhism
• whats more: Workshop at the Zen Center with Issho Fujita
• Master of the Shakuhachi & about Zen & Buddhism
• what next: Zen - Movie about Dogen
• more buddhist art -
buddha 100407
Dharma Wheel & About Dharma
tara 8790 (more)
Vajrapani 100514
Diamond Sutra
buddha cave
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Bhumisparsha Mudrā | Young Urban Zen | Dalai Lama | Science meets Buddhism
Bhumisparsha Mudrā
Bhumisparsha Mudrā | photo of statue, June 23, 2011
Siddhartha resisted every temptation Mara could devise. The lord of desire had one final test. He demanded to know who would testify that Siddhartha was worthy of attaining ultimate wisdom. And his demon army rose up to support him. Siddhartha said nothing. He reached down and touched the ground, and the earth shuddered. Mara’s demons fled.
see also: Bhumisparsha Mudrā update 7/17 -
whats more: Bhumisparsha Mudrā update | Life of Zen
earth touching
This gesture calls upon the earth to witness Shakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment at Bodh Gaya. The right hand reaches toward the ground, palm inward.
मुद्रा
A mudrā (Sanskrit: मुद्रा "seal", "mark", or "gesture") is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. While some mudrās involve the entire body, most are performed with the hands and fingers. A mudrā is a spiritual gesture and an energetic seal of authenticity employed in the iconography and spiritual practice of Indian religions and traditions of Dharma and Taoism.
TheBuddhaPBS's Channel - THE BUDDHA: Enlightenment, part 2
Jane Hirshfield, poet: "He sat down under a bodhi tree in the shelter of the natural world in all of its beauty and fullness, and he said I will not move from this place until I have solved my problem."
“Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom."
All at once, Mara, lord of desire, rose to challenge him. With an army of demons he attacked. Siddhartha did not move, and their weapons turned into flowers.
D. Max Moerman, scholar: "Mara is the ruler of this realm of desire, this world that we all live in and what he’s afraid Siddhartha is going to do when he attains enlightenment and becomes the Buddha is conquer that world, that is he’s going to do away with desire. He’s going to wreck the whole game."
Mara did not give up. He sent his three daughters to seduce him. Siddhartha remained still.
Mark Epstein, psychiatrist: "When he faces Mara he faces himself and his own destructive capacity. But he’s not the warrior trying to do battle with those qualities. He has discovered his own capacity for equanimity. He has become like the top of the Great Himalayan Mountains; the weather is passing over him, storms are raging around him, and he sits like the top of the mountain impassive, not in a trance state, you know, totally aware of everything. So he frustrates Mara."
TheBuddhaPBS's Channel - THE BUDDHA: Enlightenment, part 3
Siddhartha resisted every temptation Mara could devise. The lord of desire had one final test. He demanded to know who would testify that Siddhartha was worthy of attaining ultimate wisdom. And his demon army rose up to support him. Siddhartha said nothing. He reached down and touched the ground, and the earth shuddered. Mara’s demons fled.
W.S. Merwin, poet: "The Buddha reaches down, and with his finger, touches the earth. He says, 'The earth is my witness.' He said, 'Mara, you are not the earth. The earth is right here beneath my finger,' and the earth is what we're talking about. Accepting the earth, not owning the earth, not possessing the earth, but the earth just as it is, abused and exploited and despised and rejected and, plowed and mined and shat on and everything else, you know. It's still the earth, and it is, we owe everything to it."
Siddhartha meditated throughout the night, and all his former lives passed before him.
Robert Tenzin Thurman, scholar: "He remembered all his previous lives—infinite number of lives—female and male and every other race and every other being in the vast ocean of life forms. And he remembered all that viscerally so that means his awareness expanded until all the moments of the past were completely present to him."
D. Max Moerman, scholar: "He gains the power to see the process of birth, death, and rebirth that all creatures go through. He’s given this sort of cosmic vision of the workings of the entire universe."
As the morning star appeared, he roared like a lion. "My mind," he said, "is at peace." The heavens shook, and the Bodhi tree rained down flowers. He had become the “awakened one”—the Buddha.
Mark Epstein, psychiatrist: "Something new opens up for him which he calls Nirvana, which he calls Awakening."
Jane Hirshfield, poet: "He said, at this moment all beings and I awaken together. So it was not just him. It was all the universe. He touched the earth. 'As earth is my witness. Seeing this morning star, all things and I awaken together.'"
Thurman: "It’s not like entering a new state; it’s uncovering or surrendering to the reality that has always been there. He realized he’d always been in Nirvana that Nirvana was always the case; your reality itself is Nirvana. It’s the unreality; it’s your ignorance that makes you think you’re this self-centered separate being trying to fight off an overwhelming universe and failing. You are that universe."
Epstein: "You’re already enlightened. He’s saying the capacity for enlightenment, that your awake-ness already exists within you."
Hirshfield: "Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment."
Merwin: "Just this, just this, this room where we are. Pay attention to that. Pay attention to who's there, pay attention to what isn't known there, pay attention to what is known there, pay attention to what everyone is thinking and feeling, what you're doing there, and pay attention. Pay attention."
Young Urban Zen - City Center - San Francisco Zen Center
"Young Urban Zen is a new group under the auspices of the San Francisco Zen Center, with a particular focus on those between 25 and 35. We’ll be meeting Monday nights to meditate together, discuss our experience of Zen practice, and find out what makes it worthwhile for us. The group is built on the notion that, if you’re going to study yourself, then it’s a good idea to engage with other people who are doing the same."
• Young Urban Zen Facebook page
Peace Through Inner Peace - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, public talk
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's public talk given at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on May 8, 2011. Prior to his talk, the University of Minnesota presented an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to His Holiness. (www.dalailama.com)
YouTube - Peace Through Inner Peace - University of Minnesota
Video courtesy of the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.
Where science meets Buddhism: emptiness, interconnectivity and the nature of reality
- Buddha Weekly: "'There is a large discrepancy between how we perceive reality and how reality actually exists.' So begins this rather interesting video on the common thread of emptiness, interconnectivity and the nature of reality between Buddhism and Science. Science and Buddhism do often appear to be aligned and non-contradictory, especially given [that] Einstein['s] wrote, in The Human Side, 'If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.'"
Buddha Weekly | Where science meets Buddhism: emptiness, interconnectivity and the nature of reality
more
Tricycle: What makes Buddhism revolutionary?"
Captain Karma vs. The One-Percenters: An Interview with Noah Levine
"This month at the Tricycle Book Club we are discussing Noah Levine's new book, The Heart of the Revolution. Last week, I was very happy to get an opportunity to sit and talk with Noah...
The Ino's Blog: Study Hall - Shobogenzo
June 13, 2011
"In this way, you let go of yourself for the sake of dharma without knowing how many thousands of times you do so. You seek dharma for the sake of yourself without knowing in how many billions of eons you do so. This is the vital activity of following a teacher. This is the activity of practicing yourself and following yourself...
To speak of dharma and practice for others is to hear dharma, to clarify dharma, and to realize dharma, birth after birth. If you have a sincere heart in speaking of dharma to others in this birth, your attaining dharma is easy. Or, if you assist and support others hearing dharma, your study of dharma receives a wholesome effect. You receive the effect in your body and in your mind...
This being so, if you hear a phrase from someone in a far-eastern region, speak it for another in a far-western region. Endeavor in hearing and speaking equally with a single self. Practice and realize an east self and a west self.
Rejoice, hope for, and have the aspiration for bringing buddha ancestors' dharma, the ancestral way, closer to your body and mind. Extend this practice from one hour to one day, then to one year and to one lifetime. Make buddha ancestors' dharma the essential spirit and play with it. This is to live your life meaningfully".
from 'Self-Realization Samadhi' ('Jisho Zammai') ~ Dōgen Zenji
right-mindfulness & breath-mindfulness
Buddha-Bhumisparsha_Mudra-5x7.jpg
work in progress
For final versions see: Bhumisparsha Mudrā update | Life of Zen
Satipatthana
Satipaṭṭhāna is a way of implementing the right mindfulness (sammā-sati) and, less directly, the right concentration (sammā-samādhi) parts of the Noble Eightfold Path. Satipaṭṭhāna meditation develops the mental factors of vipassana (insight) and samatha (calm). Satipaṭṭhāna is practiced most often in the context of Theravada Buddhism although the principles are also practiced in most traditions of Buddhism which emphasize meditation such as the Sōtō Zen tradition.
Anapanasati Sutta
The Ānāpānasati Sutta (Pāli) or Ānāpānasmṛti Sūtra (Sanskrit), 'Breath-Mindfulness Discourse,' is a discourse that details the Buddha's instruction on using the breath (anapana) as a focus for meditation.
see also
• Bhumisparsha Mudrā update | Life of Zen
• whats more: Workshop at the Zen Center with Issho Fujita
• Master of the Shakuhachi & about Zen & Buddhism
• more buddhist art -
buddha 100407
Dharma Wheel & About Dharma
tara 8790 (more)
Vajrapani 100514
Diamond Sutra
buddha cave
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Night Photography on QUEST: Steven Christenson
Your Photos on QUEST: Steven Christenson - KQED QUEST Video: "Most nature photographers put their cameras away at night. Not Steven Christenson. As the co-founder of the very successful Bay Area Night Photography group, he guides like-minded, low-light photographers to find interesting subjects after the sun goes down. Steven reveals his special process of photographing star trails for Your Photos on QUEST."
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
abolish atomic
the attached file is suitable for high resolution photo printing at 4 x 6 - please feel free to print some and pass them around :)NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AS A PRINT AT deviantArt
> go to whats up for nuclear news
self portrait, roseadjoa
Roseadjoa says waking up isn't easy when living a nightmare ♥
NO NUKES | RE-TOOL NOW
buy a print!
> go to whats up for nuclear news
Friday, April 1, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
fukushima art
update 3/10/12 - one year anniversary
available for purchase at deviantart
#OccupyNuclear version also available for purchase at deviantart
#OccupyNuclear version also available for purchase at deviantart
see also: whats up: Remembering Fukushima And What You Can Do | Risky Reactors & Deadly Waste
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whats up RC'S NUCLEAR BLOG
original series 3/27/11
Einstein said, "The splitting of the atom changed everything save man's mode of thinking; thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe." He also said, "Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water."
Unit 3 of Fukushima I explodes, due to the ignition of built up hydrogen gas, on March 13, 2011. This is the reactor which has the extremely dangerous plutonium-laced MOX fuel. State of the nuclear reactor core remains unknown... (photo enhanced for contrast and enlargement with several layers of noise, sharpening and blurring)
original photo from web
GO TO "WHATS UP" FOR FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR CRISIS UPDATES
NO NUKES | RE-TOOL NOW
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
YouTube playlists
Here are some YouTube playlists to browse -
Some of the individually listed selections feature teachers that I have studied with. I hope to add a page in honor of these teachers at some point.
Art & Photo Slideshows
• Art & Photo Slideshows playlist >>
Watch This
• "Watch This" PLAYLIST >>
禅
ZEN
• Zen PLAYLIST >>
हिन्दुस्तानी शास्त्रीय संगीत
North Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music
• Indian Music PLAYLIST >>
Musik dan Tari Bali
• Music and Dance of Bali PLAYLIST >>
robertcherwink YouTube channel
• Art & photos slideshows
• Watch This
• Zen
• North Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music
• Balinese Stuff (music, dance, ketjak)
...more! - Hurdy Gurdy, Nuclear, Music, African Music & Dance...
Some of the individually listed selections feature teachers that I have studied with. I hope to add a page in honor of these teachers at some point.
Art & Photo Slideshows
• Art & Photo Slideshows playlist >>
misc art & photos
Fall, Mixed Woodland
Sonoma Mountain Zen Center Mandala Bazaar
Flying Saucer
Watch This
• "Watch This" PLAYLIST >>
禅
ZEN
• Zen PLAYLIST >>
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind Beginner's Mind
SONOMA MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTER MANDALA BAZAAR
Buddha artwork slideshow
हिन्दुस्तानी शास्त्रीय संगीत
North Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music
• Indian Music PLAYLIST >>
Dr. Laxmi Ganesh Tewari -
Raga Bilaskhani Todi | Pani Bina (Kabir Bhajan)Ustad Ail Akbar Khan - Rag Zila Kafi | Rag Marwa
Ustad Allah Rakha & Zakir Hussain Tabla Duet
Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha - Tabla Solo in Jhaptal
Zakir Hussain Tabla Solo
Musik dan Tari Bali
• Music and Dance of Bali PLAYLIST >>
Balinese Monkey Chant (from the film Baraka)
I Wayan Dibia - Topeng Keras | Topeng Tua
Topeng Keras & Rajah Dalem
Baris Dance | interlocking madness #1
Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Taruna Jaya Part 2)
robertcherwink YouTube channel
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