Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out
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The mosque is large and has several gates. This was the only one open. That courtyard looks inviting, but that sign over the gate saying “ancient mosque/清真古寺/qīngzhēn gǔ sì” looks oddly threatening. I’ve been in there before, years ago, it is really beautiful. But I don’t like photographing inside active places of worship, it seems kinda rude and invasive.
Even so, through a gap in the wall…
Another old mosque in a similar style nearby, this one over the line on the far eastern edge of Chaoyang District. But I find it works best in sillhouette. I like these old properly Chinese-style mosques, they look much better than the faux-Middle Eastern style mosques and other buildings like schools and cultural centres built for the Hui in more recent years.
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How’s this for another look at that second mosque?
Or perhaps this?
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Jos,
What is that last building with the claws on top?
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Claws?! Supposed to be a crescent moon to show it's a mosque. I didn't really put much effort into finding a good angle, most of the ground floor frontage seems to have been given over to a wholesale market dealing mostly in construction stuff, but also large volumes of beer.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Winter is....
An early daffodil promoting the Cancer Society, a little shyly at first -
Then flaunting it!
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Or perhaps this?
Brightens up a grey day!! Nice tour thanks Chris : )
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Then flaunting it!
Welcome back Chris W! How are the reflective qualities on the river at the moment?
Winter is also……
a very unseasonal rose – this one is my favourite – it’s scent is quite literally divine - citrussy, incenssy, room-filling.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Welcome back
Thanks Nora. Yes, I've been away. Then took off into the sunset like this -
Leaving the lights on, but I was gone Home.
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And how are the reflective qualities of the river you ask? Not bad I'd say - this of my first homecoming dawn with 7-sec reflection of almost the last of the waning moon, the earth-shine on the rest of its face too. Bellatrix and Betelgeuse (beautiful names!) the shoulders of Orion out to the right.
And part of a 15-sec exposure from the same fencepost a few minutes earlier, showing Aldebaran and the inverted V of Taurus above the moon, and to the left nestled within the now-bare branches of the walnut tree, Matariki/the Pleiades/Seven Sisters, the last of the moon phase signifying the end of the Matariki month.
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Next morning against a brighter sky so seen in true proportions - this really was the last day of the waning crescent moon, before it was overpowered by the brightening sky of -
sunrise, and then replaced by the New Moon.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Beautiful riverside dawns - look so peaceful (and cold)
All I have is the cold.... caught from Mr Leggs
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Hebe, in reply to
That lazy New Moon last night was remarkable because though it was a silver sliver, I could see the whole sphere. It was as though there was a tiny glow of back-lighting.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Half sphere !-)
That "tiny glow of back-lighting" is the earth-shine I referred to - here on a more zoomed image from the previous lunar cycle, full image and cropped enlargement.If you imagine yourself standing in the middle of that mostly dark hemisphere of the moon facing Earth, at that time just before sunrise in NZ (or just after sunset in the case of the New Moon), then it would be night time but you would be seeing the brightness of a Full Earth, much bigger and brighter than a Full Moon here. So here we see the night-time part of the moon in the light of that Earth-shine bounced back to us.
In my photo of the old moon reflected in the river, I like it that that the light I'm seeing as the pale part of the moon's hemisphere is a tiny proportion of the sunlight that fell on the mid-eastern Pacific, Americas and Atlantic Ocean, bounced back towards the sun but was intercepted by the dark night-time face of the moon, bounced back to this edge of the Earth hemisphere facing the moon, to hit the calm surface of the Taruheru River to reflect coherently (upside down, if not inside out) to my eye and camera lens, finally captured!?
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
finally captured!?
Beautifully captured, beautifully explained.
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Mountains, village, bird
Lamp post crossed by its own shadow.
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Hebe, in reply to
I like it that that the light I’m seeing as the pale part of the moon’s hemisphere is a tiny proportion of the sunlight that fell on the mid-eastern Pacific, Americas and Atlantic Ocean, bounced back towards the sun but was intercepted by the dark night-time face of the moon, bounced back to this edge of the Earth hemisphere facing the moon,
What a very amazing thought Chris. Imagine what that light has seen before it has seen us.
Thank you for your earth shine explanation.
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Jos,
Beautiful photos all round! The bird and the wall reflection especially!
Speaking of which, the flax dying pool near the river as a small planet.and Ohiwa harbour
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Hebe, in reply to
Life is all around...great things you do.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Mountains, village, bird
Great water-colours : )
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
the flax dying pool near the river as a small planet
Nice and tricky Jos! Found your marbles : )
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Thanks Hebe, and Chris.
And Jos - that Ohiwa Harbour one looks ready-made for a souvenir plate and bowl set. Also seemed familiar in a roundabout way - and found it back in mid-Summertime, when I sussed out the public walkway Ohiwa Track to that marvellous-looking spot and put it on my to-do-some-day list. -
BenWilson, in reply to
What a very amazing thought Chris. Imagine what that light has seen before it has seen us.
Was just watching a video that suggests most of that light spent millions of years inside the core of the Sun trying to get out. It would have been going "freeee at last" for 490 seconds before doing the double ping-pong and ending it's life absorbed into the CMOS in Chris's camera. Rather more mindboggling is that there will probably be some photons coming in from deep space in that shot from the other side of the universe, that escaped some star only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, and have been on their way here since before the Milky Way even formed.
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On the riverbank,
Spring tide in June
in communion with the cosmos -
a question-mark
or is it a pipe?
hangs over the veracity of this image …Ah, imagination,
per verse
in verse
and image. -
The gang of five arrive to disturb the peace
of contemplation.
‘Ninety’ swims through on the inside
to take the lead.O will Ninety succeed
in reforming willow
in her own image? -
Wetland reflecting, ghostly wind turbines in the hazy distance, 野鸭湖/Yěyā Hú/Mallard Lake Wetland Park
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