Week #26 Photo Challenge

Yellow Paper

"Color as color cuts through interpretations and self-absorption, straight to things as they are. It has an edge. 

John McQuade

I continue to work through the Looking and Seeing book by John McQuade and Miriam Hall. I went out this week with my intention  set on color. Some of my images were good but they included other aspects such as pattern or light. This "flash of perception" came out as pure color with space and depth. It is easy to understand why contemplative photography is a practice for a lifetime.

Week #25 Photo Challenge

Looking Down

Another week of practicing Nalanda Miksang contemplative photography and reading "Looking and Seeing" by John McQuade and Miriam Hall. I'm feeling very inspired by their writing and exercises.

"Practicing contemplative photography is a kind of sail, stirring us back to the ordinary magic of clear seeing. Making an image is using that sail to catch the joy of the world"

John McQuade and Miriam Hall

Week #24 Photo Challenge

Impressions 

"This is what it is like to be in the Now, which is really just to be still in the mind and body. My photographs come from a place of emotion. They are not an attempt to capture the perfect image, but to capture the feeling I experience as I witness the things in front of me."

Eydis S Luna Einarsdottir

Week #23 Photo Challenge

Reflections at the Marina

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera.” 

Ansel Adams