Hello! Now, because as you know photography and art is something we do out of love, it is already very much a part of a wider 'picture' in our lives. Isn't it true that our individual interests whatever they may be are all influenced and augmented by the others, that they stem from a general interest in the world? So we thought it might be nice for our blog posts to include more wide-ranging subjects. Our interests reflect our work, and vice-versa, so it's a natural thing for us to do.
We've found a way to include tags for our posts that point to subjects or points of interest included in that post, and arranged it so that when you go to our blog homepage, there is a 'cloud' of subjects. The ones that are mentioned most often will be bigger than the others.
So for example, if one of us or both of us is having a particular interest in science (like now), we might write a little post about that - or about philosophy maybe. The idea is that wherever possible we'll include a picture of ours or a classic picture that sort of expresses these things nicely. Naturally, the overall theme of the blog will be photography, but we hope some of the other subjects will be of interest to you too and it'd be even nicer to get some comments or discussion about what we've mentioned from anyone who wants to.
Now at the moment both of us are interested in some of the "debate" between evolution and creationism. I put the word debate that way because although people who accept evolution and creationists talk together, I think a real debate can only happen between two parties who have facts, and in this case of course, that isn't happening! For example have a look at this... shocking ignorance.
This is a pretty scary issue since as you may know, evolution has been repeatedly banned in the US in certain (southern!) states in favour of a literal translation of Genesis, the Bible story. However much the ideas in Genesis might be considered allegorical or symbolic, of course creationists take the story's events literally and in fact believe that the Earth is under 10,000 years old.
We both find creation myths a fascinating area, and there seem to be commonalities amongst them which point to deeper truths - but most definitely on the symbolic edge of the scale. As a matter of fact, we are planning on our to-do list a fine art piece about Hindu mythology, which we're looking forward to a great deal.
Talking of evolution, did you know that whales are evolved from hyena-like animals? More than 50 million years ago, these land animals began to become semi-aquatic in what is now northern India and slightly later what is now Pakistan, their hind legs gradually becoming more and more fin-like over millions of years, until they became permanent water-dwellers as today. Apparently even now, the occasional whale will turn up with short, stubby hind legs! If this sounds incredible, have a quick look at this 'geological clock' - a visual representation of the Earth's timeline. Notice that the black line represents the first hominids a mere 2 million years ago and how immensely small that is in comparison to the rest of Earth's history. Isn't it amazing? And all of the transformation from the hyena-like-creature to modern whale happened well within that last light green period on the graphic, the Cenozoic. Marvellous.
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