Monday, August 9, 2010

蜘蛛结网 (Spider Web)

今早拍了些蜘蛛的微距相片,想起了小时候听过的蜘蛛结网的寓言故事。

蜘蛛结网所需的毅力与恒心不小,尤其是大风雨中结不好的网轻易就被风吹破。蜘蛛结网也许不易,但一旦结成一副坚韧的网,就能让许多自动飞上门的美食手到擒来,蜘蛛也因此得以生存。

蜘蛛结网的恒心与毅力,是我们生活的好榜样,成功失败许多时候就看我们有多少恒心与毅力。

I took some macro shots of a spider and its new web this morning, and this reminded me of the phylosophical story of the spider's making the web.

Blogger Ryan posted the poem that tells the legendary story of how "The Bruce," Robert I, King of Scotland, after six successive defeats by the English armies, was a fugitive in a lonely cave, and there saw a spider try six times to cast his thread from one beam to another and succeed on the seventh try. Bruce took courage from the spider's perseverance, fought a seventh time, and won.

I could recall that in my childhood day I had read about similar story about the spider. While the spider had to try many times until it successfully make a tough web for survival, there is no difference in our life, we need similar determination and perseverance to succeed in our endeavor.

9 comments:

  1. Nowadayds, what people lack of is the perseverance.

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  2. nice post, i love how u link the story of the King of Scotland with the web.. :)

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  3. Inspiring poem! :)

    I think with your macro lens, you can get a much closer look of the spider.

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  4. 你把蜘蛛结网拍得太美了,可是我痛恨家里的蜘蛛网,不管怎样的清除,还是卷土重来,可见蜘蛛的恒心和毅力多么“可怕”!:)

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  5. 每次看到蜘蛛网, 我只想到守株待兔的故事.

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  6. Great shot, it's amazing that people still draw inspiration from this story.

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  7. Yoke-Yin,
    Need to learn from the spider then…:D

    SK,
    Thanks, there is something to learn from the legendary story….

    Mei Teng,
    Not totally true. My macro lens has a magnification ratio of 1:1, hence the actual size of the spider can be captured on the camera sensor, as the spider is quite tiny about 3mm, I can get only a little closer in this case. For bigger image I think I need a system with bigger magnification ratio…Please correct me if this is wrong.

    普普,
    不管蜘蛛多厉害,也斗不过我的吸尘机!

    rainfield61,
    蜘蛛付出努力结网,兔子却什么都不做,差得远了。。。:-)

    Ryan,
    Legendary story always last the test of time, it will outlive all of us...

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  8. I am not an expert in macro photography. But I believe using extension tubes on your macro lens will give you a close-up of the spider.

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  9. Mei Teng,
    You’re one of my advisors, thanks for all your valuable advices..:-)

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