Camera Shake / Resonance of Tripod
On the previous post, the top photo taken by 200 mm Lens which was
held against the Camera body, was inevitably shaky and couldn’t been
properly focused. When I realized that there is Catkins, I set-up a tripod
and 500 mm lens —– but after few clicks, I discovered that the photos
were utterly fuzzy. => I increased ISO speed hence shutter speed, still
the situation wasn’t get any better.
Have look the information of the photo, left bottom under the Histogram =
O mm lens mean Non-Canon lens, ISO 1600 and Shutter speed 1/2500 Sec.
This was not off-focused image. ( no double line, typical to Mirror lens there)
As the photo on the tripod showed the funny shake, I resorted with
hand held. And strangely (you say), it produced much sharper image.
This time, ISO 400 and the Shutter speed was 1/ 320.
It was well known only to few people = a Shake caused by the Resonating
equipment. = In here, 500 mm lens, Canon 5D, and Gitzo Reporter Tripod
almost fully extended has happened to resonated and gave very fine vibration.
(If the extension of the tripod was shortened, there may not be a vibration.
= that is the tricky part of the [Resonance] = hard to predict though, it is
possible to test => hit the set-up of the tripod with a stick and listen the
sound = if they makes good long sound “Boom” = Resonation suspected ! )
The photo above (heavily clopped image) by the
Tamron 500 mm Mirror lens, hand held and
ISO 1600, the Shutter speed was 1/8000 ! = I like a glare of branches.
(Human body is a dumper = wouldn’t resonates —– thanks goodness !)
May be I should find the frequency of this resonating vibration, because
Anti-Vibration system in the lens may not have an effect to higher frequency.
(I tested it with Anti-vibration of 70~200 F2.8 lens though as it got totally
different weight and the balance, the same resonance wasn’t replicated.)
May be I should talk about the Tripod in near future.
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Western God — Eastern Heaven
While talking with a Japanese lawyer about the Human-right, the most
fundamental difference in its origin become clear. = The origin of the
Judea-Christian God was such as like Gilgamesh who went to the heaven
and became the God. That’s why even the God speaks the same language
and able to listen a man’s play.
So that, even God’s given Ten Commandment was written in human
language but applicable only to the mankind = not to animals or to the
Great nature. And because of the God has human origin or a product of
human imagination hence, having the same sentiment and the logic.
Therefore having the same fundamental needs, and expresses its needs as
the right (or in the other words Our EGO) and demanded.
This is a so-called human-right circulated in the western society.
—– You can imagine to live anywhere though, the people accept
you to live there is depends on their attitude = You can not demand.
You want to live is your wish though whether you can survive or not
depend on your fate. Still believing, you can demand to your fate is,
because you know that the fate / God is negotiable, since he is a same
kind having the same mind.
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In comparison, the Easterner has no God but the Heaven (Taoism) or
the Dharma (Buddhism) as the ruling Supreme Power.
But as it has no personified figure or human like character, it remained as an
invisible abstract notion whose power is absolute and to be feared. Under this
Supreme Power, we exists only under its shadow. = Nobody has independent
“Right” kind, merely having the given opportunity to stay here.
But in the same time, this Supreme Power is not a tyrant but the power to
exercise Justice in Rational way. (= If not Rational, its system will not work.)
Therefore the fate this Supreme Power has given us is the equivalent of
our “Right” (or the Cause of us to exist or not exist = Fate, even as a Death.)
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The idea of social system under this Eastern Ethos is = “All the system has to
be operated accordance with this Justice” = abstract notion of “Right or Wrong”
exists in the society as the Absolute Moral which is not negotiable or given a
margin of discretion. And the most important point of this Eastern Ethos and
its system is, not just applicable to the human but it extends to all the nature.
Therefore, it causes us to exists but in the same time, in the same extent,
it causes the rain or even earthquake to occur = all the dynamism of
the Dharma or Power of the Heaven.
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So-called Civil-right has its origin in more or less the same story. Such as like
King John who was forced to sign the Magna Carta, he was not a man of
Supreme Power = merely yet another Warlord, who happen to be a King then.
So, as a part of negotiation and the expression of power balance, the Magna Carta
was composed. = It was nothing like the God’s given Right to preserve human
dignity but a mare bargain of do and do not.
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In comparison, eastern Emperor was the Heaven-chosen Ruler ! (In its legend ! 😀 )
So, his power is absolute and not negotiable at all. —– the trade-off to the ruler is,
he couldn’t make a mistake since he was supposed to be the wisest-man who is able
to see the invisible sign of the Heaven to know incoming disaster etc etc —– if failed,
he would be ousted by the popular up-rise. (This was the Chinese history in the past
4000~5000 years !) —– In contrast, the authority of Japanese Emperor has never
been contested and its blood-line has never broken in the past 2000 years. So that,
former Palace of the Emperor in Kyoto has no defence structure at all, ie; no high
wall or moat, since it was not necessary as Emperor never made mistake and nobody
ever stand against him. (Current Palace in Tokyo was originally built for Shogun.)
(Any short coming occured, it was all due to his courtier or minister’s mistake and
their head could have been chopped off, leaving the Emperor’s authority intact. :-D)
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—– in such system, there couldn’t be a prescribed law to guaranty the right of the
subjects, since there could always be the different condition and circumstances.
Therefore, the precedence never be generalised = always, “Such and such year
what was said” and it only worked as a reference. = had no bounding power.
= Everything was depends on the discretion of the Emperor or the Shogun.
So, this was the reason why in the Eastern society there couldn’t be the
development of Human-Right has ever taken place. = Since there couldn’t be
a possibility of negotiation against the ultimate, invisible power. —– but the
western idea of Human-right was made up with a negotiation between the
[Man] and a notion of yet [Another Man with power] therefore, a reasonable
line was drawn as applicable to the both side.
= So, it’s funny to hear that the so-called Western Human-right said to have
divine origin. ( Oh, really, what’s divine you meant ? ! 😀 )
(Eastern philosophy never indulge [So-called Equality] = IF it exists, it negates
the fundamental teachings of the Karma and the Moment dependence of the
Dharma (and one’s life). —– The reason why the Sangha of
Lord Buddha had no Cast in its group was, not because of the notion of Equality
but because of the cause to generate a Cast, the SELF of Previous Life is not exists.
But it doesn’t mean, the person would be born Karma Free. = Far from it,
If The Karma doesn’t exist, the Cause to create the person is neither there.
= Person wouldn’t come to this world. 😀
Can you ever imagine that you can force the Karma to create you with
the want of Human-right. 😀
(You can not negotiate it with the Karma, but you just follow. 😀 )
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Fruits Fly
It seems different people call different Fruits Fly though, I’m talking
about very small common Fruits Fly in England. While Googling, I
found that the others are having the same problem of Fruits Fly.
——( Dead Fruits Flies I found, and they were photographed by Nikkor 24mm F2 lens,
Reverse-mounted with extension-ring on Canon 5D Mk-III — as a X5 Macro-close-up)
—– they suddenly appear in mass and start to pest the place.
Of cause, I wouldn’t believe that they naturally generated —– there
must be somewhere something nursing them. But what was that ?
I certainly don’t have rotten fruits or cow-dung dropped in my room.
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When I was in my junior school, there was a kind of out of course
biology project = To receive a bottle of fruits fly and keep them in
a warm condition. Then next week, 10 of the pupil brought back
each bottle and counted the number of hatched fly — how many of
them had black eyes etc. Actuary, we were assisting the researcher’s
study (without understanding what for we are doing. :-D)
Anyhow, still we learned how to nurse Fruits Fly with a gluey
yeast-starch mix and to see them hatch less than 10 days.
= It’s mean, when one female came into the room and laid the eggs,
a week to 10 days later, suddenly the room would have 100 of them
flying around.
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While observing where they are frocking, I realized that the fruits
skin peel etc anything sweet and wet in the bin is attracting them.
On top of those, I discovered that quite number of them penetrated
the polythene bag of Raisin loaf through small gap = they must have
laid hundreds of the eggs on the raisin. = If I didn’t notice, I could
have eaten plenty protein as well. (That was how the Essential
Amino-acid was delivered to the “Strict Vegetarian” 🙂 )
—– then battle commence. Since then, any wet or not completely
dry rubbish, mostly fruits peel kind were lapped-up in polythene bag
and goes to the bin and any soft food goes either fridge or plastic
container with lid. I needed to make my room as dessicated and futile
as a desert, making them to convince “It’s better to go somewhere else”.
( I did composting before though, I have no garden of compost to go,
and it’s bin itself became a center of unpleasant insects, fly etc
= So, I gave up the idea.)
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So that, in reality, to have an ecological, naturally harmonious life =
“Happily Live Together with other small Lives” is = sound sweet but
not practical or ideal at all. In fact nothing but a pretentious fraud.
We shouldn’t forget “To keep hygienic, clean life” is no other than
the practice to persecute against the pests and the germs.
The Bottle-fly or Cockroach are just having their own life that all.
Even AIDS virus is surely the other life-form. They only happen to
cross over the boundary to the human life and created the conflict.
—– People expecting a beautiful Butterfly just fly over their flowers,
still never anticipates their larvae could infest their plant in their
garden. —– if they saw it, certainly 99% of them will kill it.
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It easy to make-up a softy face and preach love and compassion kind
—– Oh ! Really ?
= Better not to be a filthy hypocrite. I rather stay to be a honest tyrant,
killing millions of grains and beans every year, on top of billions of
other invisible small creatures and the germs for my comfort and the
survival. —– To know the real extent, how we are relying on the sacrifice
of other life-form = Exact reality of the Karma, not a convenient pretty
story to justify and glorify ourselves, is the duty to be a real Buddhist.
Scripture spent so many pages to explain about the Oneness (Ichijo —
such as that “Giving, even without having a conscious of giving” ==>
having pretentious mind is too remote from the Buddhism.)
We need to see and think it in person.
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PS: Since when my flat was made a desert, they just disappeared
and I only managed to find two dead bodies —– Where had they gone ?
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Winter Cherry again !
This is the third year for me watching this special Cherry tree !
Special because she blooms in the winter, and keep blooming until
their more usual blooming time of April. (Continuously all through
6 months. So that I even wrongly called her Perpetual Cherry !)
And, this is the first photo session for this season despite only
few flowers there yet. (More would be added here later. 🙂 )
So, say hello to Cherry-san.
(PS: Close-up was done by the same Fish-eye lens, while lens was
held lifted from the body = held the lens not fully inserted to the
body (hence close focus) = and the lens was not fully engaged to
the body, there was no control to the lens = aperture was F4 🙂 )
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Autumn Color – (2)
Unlike the color of eggs from super-market which color was
controlled by the coloring agent in their feed, the color of autumn
leaves are completely natural phenomenon. (You can’t dye them. 😀 )
If only the selection of plant may be artificial, such as Japanese Maple
was imported to the west only because of their blazing color in autumn.
When the plants was exposed to the air of sudden chill, their
Green colored Chlorophyll noticed that their role to carry-out
Photo-synthesis come to the end —– hence they disappeared.
—–> Once the green has gone, another color underneath which
has been masked by the green, such as red Carotene become visible
= Voila’ glorious Autumn color on fire !
Appreciate it while you can (if you like) ! 🙂
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Parakeet
This Parakeet is a bird originated from the centre of the Africa to Indian
Subcontinent, but said to be spread many area in the western Europe as well,
while adapting to live in the urbanized human environment.
Someone said it started more than 50 years ago though, I heard the story
about 15~20 years ago as the birds increased its population enormously
and becoming a pest (in the west London ). —– Yesterday, when me and
my friend who bought a DSLR (and more lens) having a shooting session
in a park, he pointed me this bird since they spread east of London as well.
(He is a guy who bought 800 mm lens to shoot birds photo though, he
didn’t bring it on this occasion = Too big and heavy !)
This morning (well nearly mid-day, still much earlier than yesterday)
I went back the same place to shoot the bird with 500 mm lens though,
not many of them today. (The park-keeper told me, that they are more
active when the sun is going to set. = after 4:00, like yesterday —– but
I wanted to have the direction of the sun-light from the side. 🙂 )
Anyhow, I have to comeback again and again to get one nice photo. 😀
(By the way, the photo above, a bird eating Acorn = Using just the beak,
still able to open an Acorn shell and eat only its carnal then drop
the empty shell —– What a skill ! = You may try to eat a packet of KitKat,
while holding it on your mouth (of cause without using your hand)
leaving only empty packaging. —– I’m not asking you to fly, but just eat
sweets = even a bird can do. Why not a man. 😀 😀 )
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Autumn Color
I popped out to the Greenwich with my friend who just bought DSLR this week
for a sort of photo session. He has been watching YouTube Tuitorial viz kind of
“How to make a good photo” and “How to use DSLR”, though, they are still a
theory or knowledge. = Same as a Buddhist’s idea, it takes enough practice to
sink into a level of spontaneity. = Look into view-finder and see the Matter is
such as That “Depth of Field” what a viz told him. —– Anticipate, if the depth
changed what would be looks like then. —– Then own control starts.
Anyone can learn good composition / framing from the sample “To make Post Card
like scene to Post Card like Picture” though, to make “Nothing Special image to
Interesting Photo” need to have a good photographic talent. —– Exaggerate or
enhance the color would make a photo something looks nice though, its saturated
color gives irritation to the eyes too. = Here is the “Middle way” = the level of
saturation which our brain thinks !!! is always too much to our subconscious, since
our subconscious follow what is natural. (Photos here are over saturated 🙂 )
Are you convinced ? —– Take Middle way.
(Looks unusual doesn’t necessary mean Special.
= in most of the case, it is just odd. 🙂
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Exists or Not-exists ? —– Where is the SELF ?
Probably the most fundamental matter in the Buddhism is the Selflessness / Mushin.
—– though, this matter questions the credibility of the one who observes its existence, it is
nothing like a scientific objective proof of existence, it’s far more complicated or confused.
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Therefore, here, the most funniest paradox in the human culture comes in.
If you deny the existence of the Self, you can not argue or even put the matter on the table.
= because, its notion itself isn’t exists, there is no word to describe it.
= how to starts arguments ?
—– If the society has no system of personal possession, everything belongs to everybody, so,
there couldn’t be a notion of “theft” let alone the very word “theft”.
If the Self is not exists, no word of SELF, let alone SELFLESS could ever exists.
So, without the notion of Self, how to argue about whether it exists or not. 😀
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Lord Buddha’s teachings were described as “Explain unexplainable” “Describe indescribable”.
In definition, Selflessness couldn’t be taught. Selflessness itself is exists though, you can’t
detect or noticed, let alone capture it in objective observation nor describe it in the words.
Because, to notice “it is there”, it’s mean the observer, who was separated from the subject
= independent self is already THERE ! = You are the established EGO.
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So, Lord Buddha just gave an instruction what to do, but never explained why or what was
the intention. (Like, just let Kisa Gotami to run about, or Churi Pantac to sweep the garden.)
—– While doing it, they will get used with its work or practice, hence became able to do it
without conscious = Selfless —– this was what the teachings were intended though,
it shouldn’t be objectively noticed or talked about. = the matter is, JUST DO IT.
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Once it was talked about, it became a NOTION and a WORD, it became independent
existence called knowledge. Once the notion and the words “I’m cutting Lemon” was
established, “I” who cut the Lemon became THE Existence. —– but, you supposed to cut
a Lemon in Mushin, without the Self. Without such conscious, Just Cut a Lemon, slice
by slice —– your knife, the lemon, your action were all fused in one, with the Dharma
= this is the state of Ichijo / Oneness. —– BUT, once the observant eyes started to see the
situation objectively and started to give a thought or two, the Observer and Be-observed
alienated = the harmony to be in the Ichijo has broken.
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In the Vimalakirti Sutra, when he was asked about what is this Oneness, he answered with
NO word (= and the silence hit the people like roaring thunder !) In fact this was exactly what
Lord Buddha did when he was asked about “after life”.
Oneness (Ichijo / Fuji) could exists if no Self was there. And as NO self exists, of cause, there
couldn’t be any possibility of After-life or Reincarnation, and no such notion or word to
describe it could exist. Hence, just a silence = Strongest denial !
(If he was to explain, “There is no Reincarnation because No-Self” it’s effectively recognize
the existence of the Self by the use of the Notion and the word “Self”.
—– It is the same situation, if the one says “I’m sitting in silence” 😀 )
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It seems that the author of Vimalakirti Sutra did know what the mind of Selfless, as the
descriptions were spot on though, I’m not sure about the other Mahayana Sutra, and the
author (compiler ?) such as Nagarjuna —– he seemed to have written them from the
knowledge just heard from others. They were the scripture for the sake of the arguments
and those arguments, theoretical explanation seemed nothing to do with
actual Selflessness and the Void.
—– Selflessness is everywhere, as you are reading this blog without noticing that your eyes
have been following the lines. = as everybody has born with Dharma, everybody has
Selflessness yet, masking it with the useless thinking and the Ego which has been kept you
away from getting enlightened.
May be just forget those words, Selflessness, Void kind of thinkings, and just take a walk
may open your eyes much clearer.
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Figs
Before Marks and Spenser started to sell more civilized products like a Wonder Bra etc.
the Figs said to be widely utilized though, I haven’t seen any of them in use, other than on
a very decent ancient sculpture wearing it. —– Anyhow I’m not a very fashion conscious
person, I’m more interested in its edible part.
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Fig is a very peculiar plant. Apparently it doesn’t have a flower still makes a fruits.
So that, in Japan they are called “Ichijiku” but to write its name in the Chinese character it is
[無花果] which mean “The Flowerless Fruits” though, its reading makes no “Ichijiku” at all.
Because of this, long since I’ve been wondering where this name “Ichijiku” derived from ?
Then, one day on a street market, I saw a fruits vendor selling the Figs.
And I knew a man working there was a Kurdish. I asked him, how they call Figs in their
country ? He taught me it is “Injee” —– With flash of light, I realized, this must be the
origin of the Japanese name “Ichijiku”.
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Fig is one of the biblical ancient fruits together with Grape, and originated from middle east.
Hence all over the Orient, Turkey to Persia, Egypt, Fig was commonly called Injee.
And it must came to China and to Japan through Central Asia = via Silk-road. So, I refer to a
Chinese Dictionary to see what is the Chinese name of Fig —– it was [映日果], which reading
in Mandarin is In-lee-quo, but local pronunciation is more like In-jee-quo which was a direct
copy of the original sound to Chinese character, and an additional letter, [果] quo, to indicate
a fruits. (Like the name of Japan / [日本], which reading in Mandarin is Lee-pen though, other
locals read it Jee-peng = So that, Marko Paolo wrote it down as Jipang hence Japan !)
From here it’s easy to see, a Chinese pronunciation “Injee-quo” has been changed to “Ichijiku”
= One long standing question was solved !
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But, without having a flower, how Fig can reproduce themselves ? —– As a matter of fact,
they are not flowerless plant at all, far from it, the fruits we are eating is nothing but a
compacted pile of tiny flowers. Hence, you can see numerous tiny seeds inside of Fig.
The seed was produced by the individual tiny flowers even more numerous than the seeds.
Those flowers were individually pollinated by also tiny Fig-wasp who came inside of a Fig
through small hole in the centre of fruits. —– Of cause, Fig-wasp was not come to a Fig to
pollinate but to mate and lay the eggs. (There are many different wasps which got different
life cycle —– some stay inside waiting the male wasp to come and fertilize her, and she lay
eggs there, and larvae grow in the Fig and male dies there. Some other wasps are came
and lay the eggs and their larvae are carnivorous and eat other wasp’s larvae. —– so on.)
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—– therefore, when we eat Figs, whether fresh or such as a Fig Roll, we are inevitably
eating the Fig-wasps as well. (In effect, it supply the Essential Amino-acid to the strict
vegetarian people = that is why they don’t die with rack of “Essential nutrition”.
Though, you don’t need to become nervous, since this situation is quite normal and common
= can you expect any mass-produced food such as Jam, Marmalade, Ketchup, what so ever =
which track-load of ingredients thrown-into a belt-conveyor, and is there anybody removing
the small insect and their tiny larvae comes with ? ) (Unlike Bottle-fly or Cockroach kind, who
is dealing with human derivative, the insects living with fruits are less likely carries the
germ related to the human diseases, hence they are much safer.)
There are many warning of food allergy, Nuts, Eggs, certain Protein etc etc. though I never
heard anybody got ill because of accidentally eat an insect —– may be without knowing,
we are eating them quite regularly, our body may not recognize them as foreign substance.
This is what “living with nature” mean, in its reality. 😀
This link may give you the idea, what is the situation.
http://www.rodalenews.com/bugs-food
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PS : Incidentally, the Boddhi-tree [Ficus, religiosa]
of which Shakya-Muni Buddha said to have reached
his Enlightenment, known locally as Peepal or
Pippal tree also belong to the same family / genus.
(Photo Right from Wiki media)
So, the Boddhi-tree is a small fruits version of Fig tree
hence has no flower. Despite the tree can reach up to
30 m, their fruits is not larger than a tip of finger.
( I do yet know how small the Fig-Wasp for this tree. —– Nearly 100 million years of
co-evolution, each species of Fig has their own gang of the Wasp species, otherwise
both of them would have had extinct long ago ! )
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