Monday, March 28, 2011

Snapshots (長尾縫葉鶯 and butterflies)

Just picked up my Canon 100-400mm to walk around, 地點: 花墟公園

This is a new one in my collection:-

These were really small, but after cropping it could be acceptable:-

Same as the one above, but wide open. It's more colorful inside!


長尾縫葉鶯...taken in the same place last time.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Allusion in Judges 18:20-29

Judges 18:20 Taking away a teraphim
Judges 18:21 Depart with little ones, cattle and carriage before them
Judges 18:22 People chasing them
Judges 18:23 Asking why so many people chasing them
Judges 18:24 Being asked why they steal especially the teraphim
Judges 18:27-28 Kill all the people in a city

Genesis 31:19 Taking away a teraphim
Genesis 31:23 People chasing them
Genesis 31:26-30 Being asked why they steal especially the teraphim
Genesis 31:36-42 Asking why so many people chasing them
Genesis 32:16-22 Depart with little ones, cattle and carriage before them
Genesis 34:1-31 Kill all the people in a city

They were not placed in exact sequence, but a number of essential elements were in common. Certain rare keyword like הַתְּרָפִֽים can be found from both cases as well.

To explain such an allusion, I would say that the two stories at the end of Judges were indeed trying to conclude that Israelites were not doing well after they arrived Canaan. And in order to show that the specific problem of Dan is indeed general to the whole Israelites, the author was trying to allude the bad deeds of Dan back to their very ancestor Jacob. As a result, the specific issue of Dan was shown to be rooted from Jacob, this allusion serves to make specific example to general problem of the whole Israelites.

Taken during the partial solar eclipse



Canon 100-400mm at 400mm wide open, handheld, corped, it's flying very high in the sky.

A small bird taken with an industrial camera



Taken by my Tele Vue Ranger with a DMK 31AF03.

A few shots at the playground - 南昌公園 (鵲鴝, 黑領椋鳥)

Both taken with a Canon 200mm f2.8

鵲鴝 (p. 152)


黑領椋鳥 (p. 201)



Sparrows

對面天台天線上, Canon 200mm f2.8L with Kenko 2x...



白頭鵯

今日放 annual leave 響屋企, 女又訓左, 老婆又訓左, 自己一個人睇書睇到悶, 打開窗門睇下, 又見倒有之前未見過既 (should be 白頭鵯, p. 150):-



映左幾十張, 得呢張較為 sharp 少少

今日天陰, 200mm f2.8L + Kenko 2x, 有腳架都無用... crop 完再 resize 少少先可以似少少樣!