Intentional Camera Movement
This morning felt like a
Watercolor Morning
with the rain falling gently on the pond behind the house. So I decided to create some photographs with intentional blur by introducing intentional camera movement. I kind of like the soft blurry look I achieved. It feels like a good representation of how the morning felt to me.
Yesterday I picked up a bunch of flowers at Trader Joe’s and began photographing them in my dining room studio. I had hoped to begin photographing the flowers today where I left off yesterday but with today’s overcast skies even with the light from the door to the deck and a second window, in the dining room there just isn’t enough light. So my exploration of the flowers will have to wait until later today or tomorrow.
I’m beginning to prepare for teaching a flower photography workshop at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts this winter. And like any teaching endeavor, I am finding the desire to go deeper in my own learning and expertise in photographing flowers before I teach the workshop.
If you’re looking for inspiration in these dark days I suggest Krista Tippett’s recent Ted Talk, Three Practices For a Life of Wisdom. I love the way that she weaves together ideas about the brokenness and beauty of this world and the idea of taking in the good. We’re wired to be alert for danger, less so to be alert to beauty. Sometimes it seems that I have way too much wiring alerting me of danger and keeping me in a stress state. Perhaps this is why I spend so much time photographing and why I practice meditation. I prefer to be alert to beauty in this perfectly imperfect world.
Our charge is not to “save the world’ after all,” (activist Courtney Martin)’s written. “It is to live in it, flawed and fierce, loving and humble.”
― Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Wishing you a beautiful afternoon on this blustery wet Friday.
May you walk in beauty.
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