This page all started with an advertisement on Facebook for a class titled “Photography & Mindfulness” which has always been a sort of unwritten description of my nature photography. So I said, “Why not?” and signed up for the online class “starting soon,” which turned out to just be a series of downloadable lectures from a website which was a little disappointing and the first lesson felt like a waste of time & money, but I decided that I would be positive since I already paid for this and get all I can out of it. I think my notes will be more helpful to photographers than the Buddha-inspired monologues by a young lady in Spain named Ampro.
I may add more to this introductory page, but first, at the beginning of the second lesson I decided to move my notes, writings, and photos from a notebook to pages on my website where I can share links, etc. Plus, typing is quicker and easier for me now than writing longhand in a notebook! 🙂 First, a sub-page on each lesson (she calls “pauses”) from the course and then we will see what develops from that . . .
- Pause 1: Photography & Mindfulness – May 5, 2026
- Pause 2: Looking With New Eyes – May 8, 2026
- Pause 3: Breathing – May 12, 2026
- Pause 4: Sensation and Emotion -May 15, 2026
- Pause 5: Light and Shadow – May 19, 2026
- Pause 6: Silence – May 22, 2026
- Pause 7: Rhythm and Movement – May 26, 2026
- Pause 8: Looking Inward – May 29, 2026
- Pause 9: Contemplative Storytelling – June 2, 2026
- Pause 10: Final Project—Your Mindful Photography Journal – June 5, 2026
- Final Questionnaire
- We Continue (They are going to offer me more courses.) 🙂
- My Personal Evaluation of the Class
The featured photo is a Physalis or “Chinese Lantern” (a vine) growing wild in a neighbor’s yard until he “cleaned up” the yard. Wildness sometimes has unique beauties that a cultivated garden will never have! 🙂 Maybe that is “mindfulness” of wildness! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
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