O'Deka: Don't mention it. The pleasure is all mine.
If something looks too good to be true, it usually is, ne' ki koy? O'm At 7:17 PM -0700 6/18/08, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote: >O'Mahanta, >That's why the sceptic in me asked who took the picture. >Thanks for your analysis. >O"Deka > > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: A Mailing list for people interested in >Assam from around the world <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:49:11 AM >Subject: Re: [Assam] banana... > > > >Thanks for sharing the picture Babul. While it is >quite amazing at first look, the skeptic in me >raises the immense possibility of a pretty fair >Photoshop job. > >There are several reasons: > >A: Knowing how a 'kolor thwka' develops, from the >top towards the bottom, this picture looks >unnatural. The bananas in the lowest 'aankhi's >are large than those in the middle. While one >cannot entirely discount the possibility that >somehow later in the development of the 'thwka' >the tree got some steroids >fed to it, but that is a veeeery long shot . And >perspective distortion--of foreshortening, as we >call it ( as in the enlarged nose and fattened >lips of a man's face photographed with a wide >angle lens) -- was not the cause. This was >picture taken with a 'normal' lens. > >B: The arrangements of the bananas in an 'aankhi' >are random, as the uppermost ones will testify. >But in the lowermost ones certain patterns repeat >themselves, a tell-tale sign of a liberal but not >too careful application of the 'clone stamp' in >Photoshop. > >C: The 'kolor thwka' matures top down. The usual >'thwka' completes its cycle of generating the ten >or twelve 'aankhi's in about a month. In this >picture of about 70 or so 'aankhis', while the >lower ones >continue to form from the flowers, the upper ones >would have ripened and gone, unless, again >intervened either by divine powers or a mad >scientist who has gone bananas with her invention >of eternal youth for banana-life. > >D: In nature, the 'dil' --flower - of the banana >starts out quite full at the outset and gets >depleted to a shriveled remnant of its original >size by the time it is done with its production >of ten to twelve 'aankhi's. Here is the fatal >flaw of the photoshopper, whose ignorance of the >biology of a banana flower or his carelessness >gives the whole thing away. Look at the 'dil' at >the bottom. It not only does not look depleted, >but actually has widened, as if by the >obstruction by the concrete slab and holding the >promise of keeping on producing for ever, from >the look of the flowers still in bloom, while the >sharp conical point of the dil got truncated in >the 'clone stamping' process altogether. > >Assuming the forever-thwka was indeed destined >to keep producing come hell or concrete slab, by >this time, the 'thwka' would have taken a slight >curvature towards the bottom. Again our picture >doctor forgot that possibility . > >It is all in the details! > >At your service, > >Sherlock Mahanta > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>-- >>Babul Gogoi >>i-50, Lajpat Nagar 1, New Delhi 110024 >>Tel: 011-29817150 / 9868182079 >> >> >>Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=image001.jpg >>X-Attachment-Id: f_fhjyvswy0 >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=image001.jpg >> >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:image001 1.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (00B6DE1D) >>_______________________________________________ >>assam mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >[email protected] >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >[email protected] >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
