Week #49 Photo Challenge

Pittsburg Marina

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever.... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."

Aaron Siskind

Week #17 Photo Challenge

Back Gate

"The bells and stones have voices but, unless they are struck, they will not sound"

Chuang Tzu

I would like to share a wonderful book that I've been reading. It's title is The Tao of Photography - Seeing Beyond Seeing by 

Philippe L. Gross and S.I. Shapiro. The book draws on Taoist philosophy and wisdom to illustrate how the art of living and photographic artistry is organically linked.

The book is broken up into five parts.

Part One provides a description go Taoistic photography.

Part Two focuses on the constructive nature of reality.

Part Three discusses barriers that can constrict awareness and ways of freeing awareness.

Part Four examines the role of method and education in artistry.

Part Five moves beyond the practice of photography and looks at using conscious camerawork as a way of enriching our everyday life.

I've read through the book twice and each time I gleam more insights and words of wisdom.

Week #16 Photo Challenge

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

Rachel Carson

Happy Earth Day 2015

Photography As A Way of Thinking

 "Seeing is for me a way of knowing, photography a way of thinking. I see most acutely through the frame of the camera’s viewfinder and think most fluently through images."
Anne Whiston Spirn

Today I started reading a book by Anne Whiston Spirn titled The Eye Is A Door,  - Landscape, Photography, and The Art of Discovery. The above quote is how the book begins. Spirn's words remind me why my camera is always with me and why my favorite time of my day is when I am capturing my thoughts through images.