Category: Natural World

A tuft for Tuesday

The Leica User Group has been discussing the use of sharpening when post processing digital camera files. The Leica M8, M9 and DMR use CCD sensors without anti-alias filters. A number of us on the list believe that increases the rendering of fine detail and makes the use of sharpening an optional, aesthetic choice, rather than a necessary one.

The photograph below, from a RAW DMR file was processed in Lightroom with image sharpening at 0, and Output sharpening at OFF.

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit

a section from the file

Friday’s flower – interbeing

Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, “‘Looking deeply’ means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. The result is insight into the true nature of the object. When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It “inter-is” with everything else in the universe.” …INTERBEING

This “looking deeply” implies “being with” — looking beyond our “ordinary” views.

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an attempt at visualizing interbeing

compared to our “ordinary” isolated view

Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit