In every festival, you can see spectacular pyramids of flowers, fruit, and cakes up to two meters high, constructed with such love and adoration that it could only be meant for a higher being. Although a religiously regarded practice, Balinese art does not serve religion solely. Bemos, jackets, menus, motorcycles, hotel doorways and other objects are decorated with sacred symbols. They do not view this use as sacrilegious. It is incredible to see so many people in such a small area pour so much energy into creating beautiful things.

Balinese painting is classified into certain groups and styles, not without some overlaps and a few that do not fit into any of the main styles. First is the Kamasan or classical painting, which is also named the wayang style. This style can be traced back to ninth century Javanese sculpture that features wayang figures, rich floral designs, and flame-and-mountain motifs characteristic of classical Balinese painting.

There is also the Pita Maha, which literally means ‘great vitality’. This group was formed when painting was dying out as an art form and in a serious decline due to styles becoming stagnant. Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet were western artists who, along with their patron Cokorda Gede Agung Sukawati, formed the Pita Maha to encourage painting as an art form and seek a market for the best paintings. Other styles include theYoung Artists and variants of the main Kamasan and Young Artists’styles.

Capturing flower as an object of photography, usually tempted, the combination of the flower which nature has provide for us, made us one step closer to thank God what He have done. Flower photo is one of the most popular photo project for the owner of the camera, especially for owners of new cameras, photo flower almost always obliged to try.
Let’s discuss some tips on photographing flowers below.

1. Looking for a garden
If you live in the rural highlands or relatively many “collections” plant flowers everywhere, then you are lucky enough. Unfortunately is if you live in a fairly urban city. Is hard to sum up the atmosphere filled with beautiful flowers? Fortunately there is a profession whose name is an alias of the florist florist. Find the nearest florist and buy flowers from him. Indeed, so no extra cost but guaranteed you can select the type and quality of flowers as you wish. Or maybe you also can plant flowers around your yard. Plant flowers that attract to be photographed. Flowers filled with a variety of colors for the images are very interesting.

2. Don’t capture flower from above position
Why can’t do it from above position? because later will seem mediocre. Try portrait from the side, or even from under all like the photo above. Interesting is not it? Try experimenting with a variety of shooting angles, do not be afraid to try!

3. Wet flower object
A wet or dewy flowers have distinctive to the eye of the beholder. For photographing flowers in wet conditions, you can wait after rain or photographed thing in the morning after the night’s dewy. If two ideal conditions are not met, you could always wet myself. Use a spray of flowers from a little distance away and if you can arrange to water granules as gently as possible so that the texture of water attached to the flower looks soft and natural.

4. Close up view
For photographing flowers in close-ups you can do it by: zoom your lens to a maximum, or use a close-up filter, or if you have a SLR camera then you can use a macro lens. Photographing flowers in close-ups help create more background blur and also increase the detail that was caught on camera so the results are more prominent.

Photo flower super close-ups using a macro lens or close-up filter such as photo above, if you do it outside the room then you have to face several challenges, one of the most difficult part was the wind. Photo flower super close-ups have a very thin focal distance, so that the wind blows and your interest just a little move is already changing the focal point. Therefore, if you can bring the flowers into the room so that the risk of missing the wind will be much easier job.

Lesson Objectives:
1 To review the meaning of “tunn, munn and dhunn.”
2 To understand how important Mata Tripta and Bibi Nanaki were to young Nanak’s life.
3 To hear the story of Guru Nanak’s marriage and why it was unusual.
4 To learn how wrong it is to tell lies or say mean things about others.

Teachers, ask the students to say the Sikh greeting with you; then fold hands and do simran with the students.
Going around the room, ask each student to tell the class what “tunn” ,”munn” and “dhunn” mean in their own life. Ask if anyone has learned the meaning of Naam Juppna, Kirt Karni, and Wund Chhukna?
Do you remember whom the boy Nanak’s first teacher was? Pause for answer. Yes, it was Mata Tripta ji.
What was it that she taught him? Pause for answers. Right. She taught him his first words in Punjabi. She also taught him that he was loved. Experiencing our mother’s love is the first opportunity we have to sense how much God loves us. Mata Tripta did a great job teaching the baby Nanak. She taught him many virtues by her example – by showing him how well she behaved, he would imitate her.
Do you remember the story of the good bargain? Who tried to protect Nanak and who explained to their father why Nanak made the choice to feed the hungry holy men? Pause. Right! It was his elder sister, Nanaki. She was the one person in the family who saw that Nanak’s spirit was very pure. She protected him while he learned to balance his love of God with his worldly responsibilities, like watching the cattle. She is the one who understood how important prayer was and how focused meditation was most important in her brother’s life, until he was able to keep his mind on God at all times, even while working.
She was married to Jai Ram, a petty officer in the service of the Nawab of Sultanpur. It was Nanaki who convinced her husband that her brother, Nanak, would do well in service of the Nawab, and it was her husband who helped to find the job of modi or store-keeper/ treasurer.
It was this sister who, after visiting the Brahmin priest, fixed the date of her brother’s wedding to Sulakhni, daughter of Moola Chauna Randhawa of Pakhoke. In those days, many traditional holy men wanted to be closer to God, and wrongly thought that it would help them in this if they never married. Nanak was unusual. He said that living an ordinary life within the family is how to reach God. The key was to balance prayer, work and family life.
But even Nanaki could not stop the rumours that Nanak was out of his mind because sometimes he seemed lost in meditation – or that Nanak was stealing from the Nawab to give to the poor to get favours from them. In fact, some people told Sulakhni’s father these lies. He was very worried about his daughter and hatched a plan to get rid of the fiancée. In his village was an old mud wall that was ready to fall down with the slightest push. He planned for Nanak to sit by the wall and have the girls of the village rush to meet him. In the crush, the wall would fall and Nanak would die. Then his daughter would be free to marry someone else.
An old woman stopped to see Nanak and told him of the plan. Nanak was unafraid. “No palace will survive forever, mother,” he said to the woman. “If this mud wall is to crumble, it will not during this great occasion.” It did not crumble that day. Even today, there is a glass wall around it. All the other sturdy houses are gone, but the mud wall survives!
Nanak’s bride stood by him. Sulakhni and Nanak had two sons and both parents took care of the domestic duties of the family. When Nanak began his mission and traveled all over the world, it was his wife who took care of all of the financial and family duties. She was his main support because she herself had a great spiritual understanding of God’s will and what God wanted her to do.
Because of the great example of the women in Guru Nanak’s life, he praised women and said that recognized that are equal to men. “How can they not be equal to men if it is women who give birth to emperors?” he said.
Does anyone remember the names of the people who spread rumours and lies about young Nanak? No, because lies are false. The people who spread lies and rumours about other people do something bad. Even if these people believed what they were saying was the truth, would that make it ok? No, it does not make it ok, because no one can be sure if it is a lie or the truth. Not only that, saying bad things makes a bad atmosphere and hurts others. This is never good.