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Sophora Japonica

A new text with a Japanese theme joins the list of “public” texts that I wrote – the text is called “Sophora Japonica“.

A quick background for the text: Sophora japonica – otherwise known as the Chinese Scholar-Tree, or the Japanese Pagoda Tree, and translated as “salcâm japonez” in Romanian – is an acacia tree native to eastern Asia (mainly China; despite the name, it is introduced in Japan). It is quite a popular ornamental tree in Europe and North America, grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.

The intro quote is a traditional haiku I happen to like a lot, and the picture to the right of the text is an origami paper crane figure I made myself.

Enjoy the text! :)

My new digital camera

I bought a new Canon S3IS from eMAG yesterday. It arrived this morning (awesome response time and delivery!), and so I started playing with it for a bit. As compared to my old A610, this one has several interesting features, like the auto-exposure bracketing function (for those HDR photos I’m planning to make), the image stabilizer, the 12x optical zoom and the ISO 800 support. All in all, I definitely think it’s a great investment, and I’m certainly going to make the best out of it. :)

Canon S3IS

Awesome photo

This astronomy picture of the day is a three photograph panorama taken on January 26 in Perth, Australia of Comet McNaught caught between fireworks and a lightning storm. Cool stuff!