M44 Benchmark MTO (Russentonne), MC Rubinar against a 80mm triplet APO
I experiment a bit with an Rubinar and a MTO Russentonne 500mm lens, which I recently acquired second-hand. Here a snapshot fully manual settings with the RT 50 f/8 (and lots of light in Southern France). The Beehive Cluster, also known as M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189, is an open cluster in the...
Wong Kar Wai Berlinale
The Berlin film festival kicked with The Grandmaster, a martial arts epic from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai who is also presiding over this year’s jury. Asian stars including Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Zhang Ziyi were present. The annual Berlinale, now in its 63rd year, is one of Europe’s most important film festivals, and alongside it runs a large-scale...
Philip Jenkins "The Next Christendom" – in the long run . . . Christ wins out
Philip Jenkins has a joint appointment at Penn State University and at Baylor University and is also the author of “The Lost History of Christianity”, another excellent book. A respected professor of history and religious studies who has been known for “going against the flow,” Jenkins argues that the rapid growth of Christianity around the...
The many lives of Global Christianity
The book – The lost history of Christianity – from Philip Jenkings provided many insights of the Eastern Christians to me, particularly since it makes clear, that also religion history is written by the victor. The book describes with great detail and accuracy how Religions deteriorate, vanish or die. How, religions get killed and when they leave ghosts...
König, Krieger, Magier und Liebhaber. C.G. Jung. Männliche Archetypen.
König, Krieger, Magier und Liebhaber. Sunday, May 29, 2011, 23:14 Auf C.G. Jung basierende Exerzitien in St. Ottilien. Brilliante Darstellung und eine brilliante Gruppe – Ärzte, Politiker, Juristen, Architekten und Ingenieure. Es scheint die Kirche zieht heute im Verborgenen Suchende an. Die Frage an diesem Wochende war, was sind eigentlich meine männliche Archetypen? Als interessante...