I don't do any blogs, Sameer - I guess I should have a website for that (???). Anyway, the exchange can be exactly as fascinating this way too. Perhaps this site covers also this domain but in some more implicit way through the messaging and discussion threads that it offers. To tell you truth I can't discover any difference between a blog and a discussion thread, both in content and in technology. Is there any difference? They seem much the same to me.
Indeed, the observation of what goes on "out there" was one of the very first reasons to assume that "somebody is doing that" while not knowing better, and of course also to build-up some system of "rules" that were then attributed to that "somebody". Pretty much everything must have been "his will" at the start. You know, if it rains it is a message from "god", if it doesn't rain it is a message from "god". ;-) As the time was passing by the possibilities for more insight grew and of course many things were recognized to be not "sent from above". Like for example some illness that surely doesn't come per fax from some insulted deity. Still the very concept of religion in general remains, as humans still seem to need some kind of "sense" behind all that. Some kind of "holy plan", or "destination", "goal". And in that point all religions are pretty much similar. The "plan" itself has many different implementations but the similarity is that there is a "plan" at all. All of them contain the concepts of "salvation", of good, bad, etc, etc.
Now, as you already said, since the concept of religion itself doesn't pop up out of nothing at the will of some deity but rather gets built up by humans, and since the concepts themselves do converge no matter of specific implementation, this must be a good hint towards two things. One of them is the fact that there are common things over all humans and that's good since it could be the fundament for stopping the childish holy wars and the like. The second could be the recognition of the fact, that no god exists without the human mind that produces the idea of a "god". So perhaps out of these things we could be able some time to see that for morals and for doing the good no interstellar cop is needed that sits there and observes what we do. ;-)
If I could only manage to tranform all that to photos! ;-)
You write very well...do you do any blogs, you should...
All these ideas of holy/evil came to ancient men as they were amazed by this Universe. All groups made different (yet similar) interpretations. In my view all the religions are different ways to achive same destination!!!
Thanks a lot for the clarification, Sameer. Now I got it. I always wonder about such things like sacred, holy, evil, and other fantasies of the human race about the non-existent. It seems that a certain amount of such a symbolic is present in each and every religion worldwide. Perhaps a good possibility for seeing how similar they (and we all) are, and get closer without the present laughable "holy wars".
As about underexposure, well, a bit more could be even better, I guess. But to find the right amount is always a good problem.
Sacred/holy, the power has religious importance for Hindus. your crop also seams good, but it will take away green and blue colors... personal preference... though, as you said, I could have tried little underexporse. Thanks for detailed comment. ~Sameer
Sacred? I guess for the meaning of "holy", Sameer? But no matter of meaning, that colors vibrates immensely here, giving such an alive touch to the captured scene! A bit of overexpsoure took away many details but still many others are present to convey the vividness of the scene with all those objects.
Make the red even more purely predominant? A small crop of top and bottom would be enough. (Attachment) And it avoids also the very overexposed blue containers.
Up to the slight overexposure and some small pixelated regions on the base of the piles of the red towels (or whatever they are) a good work.
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