“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose. What he desires is non-desire; what he learns is to unlearn. He simply reminds people of who they have always been. He cares about nothing but the Tao. Thus he can care for all things.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching ©www.ludwigriml.com
This is of course a strange approach. Making a panorama to portray a flower. But I tried and tried and was not happy with the composition. I wanted the flower as big as possible and ended up with too little headroom or too little room at the bottom of the frame. So i decided to solve the problem with a panorama of two frames on top of each other. What do you think?
The Sanskrit terms sādhu ("good man") and sādhvī ("good woman") refer to renouncers who have chosen to live lives apart from or on the edges of society to focus on their own spiritual practices. There are 4 to 5 million sadhus in India today and they are widely respected for their holiness. It is also thought that the austere practices of the sadhus help to burn off their karma and that of the community at large. Thus seen as benefiting society, sadhus are supported by donations from many people