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for the first time ever ...

2011-07-29T20:21:00.001+05:30

for the first time ever in the history of mankind, the wilderness is safer than civilization ...

inspiration in relation ...

2010-12-25T10:07:00.006+05:30

nothing great ...

2010-11-20T15:58:00.000+05:30

muthu, prakash and silamban ...

2010-11-01T19:04:00.001+05:30

season 3 ...

2010-10-05T17:15:00.004+05:30

selvi and sivagami ...

self-respect ...

2010-10-05T09:44:00.012+05:30

... there is nothing more suffocative than truth, thus ... we have art in order not to die of the truth ...

all-pervasive understanding ...

2010-07-27T17:44:00.004+05:30

i only know what i already know ... i do not know what i do not know.

almighty imagination ...

2010-06-03T19:36:00.010+05:30

"...the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth." Genesis 8:21

is not imagination more powerful than thought ? is not Imagination more important than knowledge ? is not life imagination ?

religion has attempted to create order out of our unpredictable world using non-rational or faith-based rules and social myths to insure security and create peace.

a world governed strictly by reason does not provide any flexibility and lack of imagination becomes the agent of fear and self-righteousness.

"reality" is the mirror of the interplay of imagination and thought ... true sense of beauty and imagination is only developed through observation of nature...

kind of feynman's meaning ...

2010-05-22T12:31:00.009+05:30

chlorophyll is the molecule responsible for photosynthesis in bacteria & plants that allows to capture the sun's energy, and responsible for plant's green color.

the chloroplast with which plants make food for themselves is actually a cyanobacterium living within the plant's cells.

proteins in bacteria & humans have the very same molecular structures.

so close to life is life, the universality of the deep chemistry of living things is indeed a fantastic and beautiful thing, the same time we humans have been too proud even to recognize our kinship with the animals.

the world is a spinning ball, and people are held on it on all sides, some of them upside down and we turn like a spit in front of a great fire, we whirl around the sun, that is more romantic, more exciting, some 'force' keeps the earth round, holds the sun together and keeps us running (falling) around the sun in our perpetual attempt to (safely) stay away.

it looks as if life was belched from some exploding star, much as some of the stars that are exploding right now, so this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks ...

... and, again, it has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves, it then becomes a question of where all of this stuff came from ?... "what a wonderful world" the imagination of nature is far far greater than the imagination of man.

freedom to doubt is a way-too-important matter in the sciences, it was a struggle to be permitted to doubt, to be unsure... then I think we must frankly admit that we do not know ...

no thing as a species ...

2010-03-08T19:46:00.008+05:30

"let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind . . and the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind." - genesis 1:11-12.

do distinct species change into other distinct species ?

natural selection and mutations, which scientifically prove that cross-species changeovers cannot happen. scientists tell us that no one really knows how any species originated.

charles darwin wrote a book, entitled "origin of the species" ... but he said not one word in it about how life forms first began. In addition, in his book he gave no explanation of how a new species could originate by one species changing into another. he did say that "natural selection" could do it, but in later years he repudiated the idea. with this empty background, what do evolutionists mean by the term "species evolution" ?

If one species cannot change into another, then there is no evolution of life forms. yet even darwin admitted that such changes never occurred, and thus quoted "not one change of species into another is on record . . we cannot prove that a single species has been changed."

ok... to make things lighter ... we all know that one day when isaac newton was drinking tea in the garden, he saw an apple fall to the ground. he started thinking about why it fell, and finally concluded that the same force which caused the apple to fall also kept the moon in orbit around the earth. this same force, gravity, also kept the planets in orbit around the sun ... but ... he missed the point to explain how the apple got up there in the first place ? ...

wit-ness ...

2009-10-09T09:15:00.002+05:30

a-bun-dance ...

2009-08-05T12:29:00.003+05:30

numbers in red ...

2009-03-14T15:46:00.002+05:30

i'm writing a book. i've got the page numbers done ...

there is safety in numbers ...

the whole is more than the sum of its parts ...

then ...

( number of fruits per tree ) X ( number of fruiting trees ) = how many number of new fruiting trees ?
can there be safety in numbers ? ...

perspective ...

2009-03-08T21:48:00.004+05:30

perspective ( Latin-perspicere to see through ) is a mathematical system for projecting the three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface, which begins with a horizon line, which defines the farthest distance of the background and a central vanishing point, which defines the foreground of the space, in which the artist may arrange figures, objects, subjects, these elements link the science of three-dimensional geometry with the art of illusionistic representation.

light ...

2009-02-15T19:56:00.007+05:30

... how light is light ? ... why does light become very big and heavy such as a 1000 year old tree ...

philosophers of science point out that science doesn't answer why questions, it only answers how questions. Science doesn't explain ... science describes.

my explaination would prefer to choose the experience of a photographer, consider the picture posted in "trans time", the image consists of both stationary objects such as the tree bark, the insects in a meeting and the busily moving insects. now you can imagine me using a flashlight (1/10,000 of a second) to arrest all movement or use 1/2 second exposure using available light. so the point being, the stationary items dont have time influence them and the moving subjects influence light. so ones perception and camera setting is the crucial factor in understanding light.

it is said that, If you can't explain something to a six year old, you don't really understand it !

p.s : every atom in the universe is physically bound to all others via two anti-parallel threads twined around each other like strands of DNA !!

trans time ...

2009-02-12T11:26:00.006+05:30

... in the 1970's while studying unicellular organism and their ability to sequence genes, which should have been a scientific way of proving darwin’s tree of life ...

darwin assumed that organisms passed their genes to their offspring. Instead, what was seen was that some bacteria and some single-celled microorganisms swapped genes across huge distances.

lateral transfer of genes was not the way the tree of life was to be, evolutionary biology had the axe ready to cut down the tree of life further. fungi, amoeba, algae are themselves a product of fusion ...

unicellular organisms make for at least 90% of all species on earth and 80% of them show lateral gene transfer. lateral transfers are seen in plants and animals too, about 14% of all living plant species and about 10% of all animals have been found to be “products of fusion of two separate lineages.”

“downgrading the tree of life doesn’t mean that the theory of evolution is wrong, just that evolution is not as tidy as we would like to believe.”

season 2 ...

2009-02-11T09:15:00.002+05:30

we have art in order not to die of the truth ...

monsoon 2 ...

2007-07-06T11:03:00.000+05:30

monsoon 1

2007-06-15T09:34:00.000+05:30

somewhere ...

2007-05-17T20:58:00.000+05:30

somewhere ...

There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.

There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to learn, time to care,
Some day!

Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere . . .

There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow,
Some day,
Somewhere!

lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, sung by a bird

evening sun ...

2007-04-27T09:12:00.000+05:30

the sun orbits the center of the milky way galaxy at a distance of approximately 26,000 light-years from the galactic center, completing one revolution in about 225–250 million years. the orbital speed is 217 km/second ... and all of this is necessary for this simple image ? ...

potential ...

2007-03-12T21:42:00.000+05:30

the unknown potential is far greater than the known potential ....

power of few ...

2007-03-03T21:13:00.000+05:30

power of two ...

2007-02-16T15:47:00.000+05:30

art in nature ...

2006-12-06T21:33:00.000+05:30

true art ...

2006-11-26T22:27:00.000+05:30

are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling ?

...

eye in the jungle ...

2006-11-03T10:50:00.000+05:30

... nil bastardum carborundum !

many more ...

2006-10-24T17:13:00.000+05:30

two dots ...

2006-10-22T18:53:00.000+05:30

home to some ...

2006-10-19T18:05:00.000+05:30

floor ...

2006-10-18T22:38:00.000+05:30

hoofprint ...

2006-10-04T18:07:00.000+05:30

an ungulate, a hoofed mammal, cervus unicolor, the indian sambar deer.

ancient Indian tale for kids ...

as the deer fled, he ran into some dry grass, and the seed fell into the eye of a wild chicken, and the pain of the seed in the eye of the chicken caused it to fly up against a nest of red ants. alarmed, the red ants flew out to do battle, and in their haste, bit a mongoose. the mongoose ran into a vine of wild fruit and shook several pieces of it on the head of a hermit who sat thinking under a tree. "why did you, o fruit, fall on my head ?" cried the hermit. the fruit answered "we did not wish to fall, a mongoose ran against our vine and threw us down." and the hermit asked, " o mongoose, why did you throw the fruit ?" the mongoose answered "i did not wish to throw down the fruit, but the red ants bit me, and I ran against the vine." the hermit asked, " o ants, why did you bite the mongoose ?" the red ants replied "the hen flew against our nest and angered us." the hermit asked " o hen, why did you fly against the red ants' nest ?" and the hen replied "the seed fell into my eyes and hurt me." and the hermit asked, " o seed, why did you fall into the hen's eyes ?" and the seed replied "the deer shook me down." the hermit said unto the deer, "o deer, why did you shake down the seed ?" the deer answered "i did not wish to do it, but the owl called, frightening me, and i ran." "o owl," asked the hermit, "why did you frighten the deer ?" the owl replied "i called, but as I am accustomed to call, the cricket, too, called " ...

embracing reality ? ...

2006-09-26T20:56:00.000+05:30

all species provide at least one function in an ecosystem. each function is an integral part of regulating the species balance, species diversity and species health, all aspects which are intrinsic for the ecosystem as a whole to survive and prosper.

just like a species with high genetic diversity, an ecosystem with high biodiversity may have a greater chance of adapting to environmental change.

embracing diversity ? ...

2006-09-21T21:00:00.000+05:30

a good education is an education that is accessible to everyone, and to everyone at the same quality. the result is an equality that we have come to expect in our lives. but we also have come to expect a recognition of diversity, the very antithesis of equality. to provide equal education and exposure to a diverse population thus requires to define precisely what we mean by equality and what we mean by diversity. now, how relavant are the fungi's that we see in the picture ?

green leaf ...

2006-09-11T18:38:00.000+05:30

chlorophyll is greek for " green leaf "

words moving up ...

2006-09-03T08:57:00.000+05:30

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

(...)

cycad ...

2006-08-23T17:59:00.000+05:30

world distribution of cycadales

overall species diversity peaks at 17˚N and 28˚S, with a minor peak at the equator. there is therefore not a latitudinal diversity gradient towards the equator but towards the tropics.

di·lem·ma ...

2006-08-06T11:13:00.000+05:30

1. A situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavorable or mutually exclusive.
2. Usage Problem. A problem that seems to defy a satisfactory solution.
3. Logic. An argument that presents two alternatives, each of which has the same consequence.

"soul ?" does a dog have a soul ? how about cockroach ?

"excuse me, I did not mean to criticize your planet"

- Robert Anson Heinlein - Science Fiction Writer

blotch fungi ...

2006-08-04T17:41:00.000+05:30

"study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. it will never fail you."

"i believe in god, only i spell it 'nature'."

god is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of god. and, i prefer to say that nature is the only body of god that we shall ever see. if we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

out there ...

2006-07-18T19:05:00.000+05:30

photography is...

"an austere and blazing poetry of the real" - Ansel Adams

"the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision" - Sebastian Smee

"a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality" - Alfred Stieglitz

"the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century" - Sir John Rotherstein

"(a means by which we)...learn to see the ordinary" - David Bailey

"a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ..." - John Szarkowski

a camera is...

"the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange

"the camera has interesting ideas of its own" - John Szarkowski.

Julia Child (1912-2004), television chef

"If you're afraid of butter, use cream"

"the only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook"

"life itself is the proper binge."

"everything in moderation, including moderation."

in·ter·twine ...

2006-07-08T22:00:00.000+05:30

this post is for e2d ...

the world is full of signals that we don't perceive. tiny creatures live in a different world of unfamiliar forces. many organism of our scale greatly exceed our range of perception for sensations familiar to us. what an imperceptive lot we are. surrounded by so much, so fascinating and so real, that we do not see (hear, smell, touch, taste) in nature, yet so gullible and so seduced by claims for novel power that we mistake the tricks of mediocre magicians for glimpses of a psychic world beyond our ken. the paranormal may be a fantasy; it is certainly a haven for charlatans. but “parahuman” powers of perception lie all about us in birds, bees, twiners and bacteria.

- altered words

life pattern ...

2006-05-19T08:13:00.000+05:30

the game of life (or simply Life) is not a game in the conventional sense. there are no players, and no winning or losing. once the "pieces" are placed in the starting position, the rules determine everything that happens later. nevertheless, life is full of surprises! in most cases, it is impossible to look at a starting position (or pattern) and see what will happen in the future. the only way to find out is to follow the rules of the game. click here to play !

bait ...

2006-04-21T19:01:00.000+05:30

the short version of the story ... the dog was baited to catch a leapord. not the way we see in the last picture, but inside a cage. the leapord was caught and the dog was unharmed. the last picture is the trauma of the whole experience.

a bait indeed ... will be loose soon, with the story ... indeed ...

...

2006-04-01T20:32:00.000+05:30

... she charged at me ... with such grace ... our eyes met ... she knew am just a photographer ... now sedated and gazing into whats next ... such grace ... such pride ... a tigress ...

first time ...

2006-03-20T08:19:00.000+05:30

sometime ... first time is the last time ...
what is purpose ? ...

isnt chaos order ...

many pink ...

2006-03-09T19:27:00.000+05:30

while posting this picture of balsam ... i was reminded of balsams ...

aaliyar through grass ...

2006-03-06T16:23:00.000+05:30

what ever that means ... it means something precise ...

today ...

2006-02-26T10:17:00.000+05:30

this picture was in my junk folder. made a lot of sense today ...

darling maansi ...

2006-02-24T11:04:00.000+05:30

my favourite girl in the camp, maansi, the sweet child of a gorgeous mother selvi ... is no more ... life indeed !
met selvi's new baby boy couple of days back ... not named yet ...

4 mins latter ...

2006-02-20T23:19:00.000+05:30

this picture has a long story ... to make it short, it was a big bonus ! ... yes, 4 mins before this pic happened, i could have been killed by a bull elephant with lovely tusks ...

embrace ...

2006-02-19T23:35:00.000+05:30

no story ...

elements of plot 7 ...

2006-02-18T10:58:00.000+05:30

all human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire - aristotle (384 bc – 7 march 322 bc!)

elements of plot in a narrative :

7. conclusion - the end of the story.

is there desire ? ... sure. so, all human actions include one or more of the above said by aristotle. if one simple human action like collecting honey, includes all the seven, then what justifies the destruction ? the tree is anyway doomed by the hole that was already present in it. this bee does not have a potent sting and starts rebuilding the colony immediately.

the older the bee coloney, the tastier the honey, this particular hive has been spotted and monitored for three years by "woodpecker" for a special ocassion when it arises. this honey is called as "adduku thein" in the local language, literally meaning, "layered honey". this honey was gifted to me, in the wish for good health and long friendship. this honey is not any honey, apart from being the tastiest that i have ever tasted. an honour to have received it ...

could every human cause turn a blur with an eigth one present, called compassion ? or love ?

why is it that all modern approach to conservation of wildlife which includes the tribal communities are so "modern-man centric", we simply dont think from their point of view but ours and ours alone.

why is it that all wildlife readily parts with its by-products and express "love" among sincrere logic ?

is there something more to learn, since 7th march 322 bc ?

considering an "eigth" cause to compliment human actions could be the conclusion, so that, its ... not the end of the story ...

elements of plot 6 ...

2006-02-16T01:05:00.000+05:30