Istanbul August 2010
Istanbul August 2010
Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video)
Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video) The Orionid Meteor Shower this year was a bit of a dud. I was shooting up at 11,000 feet in the White Mountains and ran my camera for about 4 hours, from 10:40pm Friday until 2:50am, well after the moon came up. To see how a much more active meteor shower looks, here's one of my Perseid Meteor Shower videos from the same location, displayed on the Discover Magazine blog, best viewed full screen: Perseids, Writ Large http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/ I have a number of posts on my blog www.MyPhotoGuides.com * related to night shooting and timelapse videos. Here's one of the more recent ones building on those pasts posts: Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html I'm curious to see how an HD 720P video gets displayed on G+. I have a ton of timelapse footage that I haven't foun...
"Muslim consider Jesus a prophet, just not the latest one" uhum, nice comment ^^b
ReplyDeleteThe Jews, Muslims, Christians and Mormons have essentially the same "Abrahamic" faith.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alislam.org/library/links/00000129.html
"Muslims speak of both Jesus and Mary with reverence and respect. They believe that Allah or God gave revelations not only to Abraham and Moses, but also to Jesus and all prophets. For them Christ is not messiah, savior or divine, but one of God's holy messengers."
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Apr2002/Feature2.asp
In Turkey it was interesting to see the museums and Turkish people portraying the Muslim faith as sympathetic to "enlightened" faiths with similar roots, in strong contrast to the anti-Muslim propaganda initiated in the U.S. after 9/11. I experienced generosity by relatively poor people in Turkey, and I've heard first person accounts of people there literally offering the clothes off of their backs when complimented on them. It's amazing how easily led, and how grossly misled, the American people are. How often does a discussion of Osama bin Laden observe that he was trained to be a terrorist by the CIA, or that his complaint was that the U.S. established a military base in his country to support the dictatorship there? Or that Saddam Hussein was a dictator put in place by the U.S.? We can't learn from our mistakes if we don't fully acknowledge them, especially how some of our current wars and the threat of terrorism came to exist due to our actions. Then again, the people and companies making bundles of money off of our wars have a tremendous influence on Washington. Given the complete lack of discussion of budget cuts to "defense", they apparently intend to continue on the path of creating these threats to defend against (and spreading whatever lies about others they find convenient to achieve these goals).
Eh, Mormon too? I know next to nothing about Mormon anyway.
ReplyDeletethere is always an agenda, whether it is in your country or mine.
and not sun of god either
ReplyDeleteJeff Sullivan My personal view? I'm on this site because of photography...
ReplyDeleteRonen Zilberman Me too. Abstracts aside, photographs are usually of something. Some of the most interesting photographs are of interesting things.
ReplyDeleteIt hadn't occurred to me until reaching this place in Turkey that people of different faiths considered many of the same people prophets, so I added the additional context after I learned it. If anything, what people have in common seems all the more interesting and important in light of recent events in the Middle East.