Week # 33 Photo Challenge

White Flower

"Then you might see something, which is second stage. The more you look the more inquisitive you are, the more you are bound to see.  Your looking process is not restrained because you are genuine, you are gentle, you have nothing to lose and nothing to fight against ... you can see so beautifully. In fact, you can feel the warm of red and the coolness of blue and the penetrating quality of green - all at once.  You appreciate the world around you.  It is a fantastic new discovery of the world.  You would like to explore the entire universe."

            Chogyam Trumpa Rinpoche, Shambhala Sacred Path of the Warrior

Week #32 Photo Challenge

Reflections In the Lily Pond

One eye sees, the other eye feels. - Paul Klee

Week #31 Photo Challenge

Reflections at the Marina

                    You don't take a photograph. You ask quietly, to borrow it.

                                                            

                                           Unknown

Week #30 Photo Challenge

Texture and Lines

I have been slowly working through a wonderful book - Looking and Seeing: An Introduction to Nalanda Miksang Contemplative Photography by John McQuade and Miriam Hall. This week I learned that Mariam Hall will be offering an online class on level 

1 Nalanda Miksang. I have already signed up for the class and look forward to engaging with a broader community of those practicing  contemplative photography. If you are also on this path I hope you will think about joining the class too!

Week #29 Photo Challenge

                        

   

 Lines and Clouds

"You don't make a photograph with just a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."

Ansel Adams 

Week #28 Photo Challenge

Curved Lines

The bells and stones have voices but,

unless they are struck, they will not sound.

- Chuang-Tzu

Week #27 Photo Challenge

Trees In The Park

I've been thinking lately about why I like to use my camera to "see" the world. I am definitely about the process of photography. Through my practice of Nalanda Miksang and contemplative photography I am learning how to carefully observe the world around me and in turn, learning at a much deeper level about this wonderful world. Observing, looking, seeing, feeling, appreciating the experience of the phenomenal world.