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The Mindful Photographer
Awake in the World with a Camera
David Ulrich
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Mindful Photographer
Awake in the World with a Camera
David Ulrich
About This Book
Discover your voice, cultivate mindful awareness, and inspire creative growth with photography
In The Mindful Photographer, teacher, author, and photographer David Ulrich follows up on the success of his previous book, Zen Camera, by offering photographers, smartphone camera users, and other cultural creatives 55 short (1-5 pages) essays on topics related to photography, mindfulness, personal growth, creativity, and cultivating personal and social awareness. Whether you're seeking to become a better photographer, find your voice, enhance your ability to "see" the world around you, realize your full potential, or refine your personal expression, The Mindful Photographer can help you. You will learn to:
You can read this beautiful, richly illustrated book in order, following its inherent structure, or you can dive into the book anywhere that appeals to you, following your own stream of interest. No matter how you read and work through the bookâmany of the essays contain exercises, working practices, and quotes from well-known photographersâyou will learn to deepen your engagement with the world and discover a rich source of creativity within you through the act of taking pictures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Seek Resonance
Camera Practice
Avoid the Merely Pictorial
Pictures are Not About Pictures
Visual Learning
First Sight; Beginner's Eye
The Camera in Your Hand
Seeing from the Body
It's All About Hormones
Attention and Distraction
Keep the French Fries
Becoming Good
Audience
Fitting into the Flow of Time
Catch the Wave, Not the Ripple
Of Time and Light
In Space
Finding Your Mojo
River of Consciousness
Why Selfies?
When to Put the Camera Down
Mindful Sight
Creative Time
Minding the Darkness
Potency of Metaphor
Mapping the Internal Terrain
What Helps?
Analyzing Your Images
Sift, Edit, and Refine
Sequencing
Experiment
Become the Camera
Music of the Spheres
InSeeing
Fifty/Fifty
Creative Mind and Not Knowing
Trust Your Process
Digital Life
Steal Like an Artist
Art is a Lie that Tells the Truth
Use Irony Sparingly
Embrace Paradox
When to be Tender, When to Snarl, When to Shout, and When to Whisper
Sharpness is a Bourgeois Concept
Learn to Love the Questions
The Wisdom of Chance
Awake in the World
The Cruel Radiance of What Is
Hope and Despair
Companions on the Way
Coherence and Presence
Wholeness and Order
Creative Intensity
Sea of Images
The Power of Art
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Information
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Seek Resonance
- Camera Practice
- Avoid the Merely Pictorial
- Pictures Are Not About Pictures
- Visual Learning
- First Sight, Beginnerâs Eye
- The Camera in Your Hand
- Seeing from the Body
- Itâs All About Hormones
- Attention and Distraction
- Keep the French Fries
- Becoming Good; Becoming Whole
- Audience
- Fitting into the Flow of Time
- Catch the Wave, Not the Ripple
- Of Time and Light
- In Space
- Finding Your Mojo
- River of Consciousness, Stream of Images
- Why Selfies?
- When to Put the Camera Down
- Mindful Sight
- Creative Time
- Minding the Darkness
- The Potency of Metaphor
- Mapping the Internal Terrain
- What Helps?
- Analyzing Your Images
- Sift, Edit, and Refine
- Sequencing
- Experiment
- Become the Camera
- Music of the Spheres
- The Art of Inseeing
- Fifty/Fifty
- Creative Mind and Not Knowing
- Trust Your Process
- Digital Life
- Steal Like an Artist
- Art Is a Lie That Tells the Truth
- Use Irony Sparingly
- Embrace Paradox
- Know When to Be Tender, When to Snarl, When to Shout, and When to Whisper
- âSharpness is a Bourgeois Conceptâ
- Learn to Love the Questions
- The Wisdom of Chance
- Awake in the World
- The Cruel Radiance of What Is
- Hope and Despair
- Companions on the Way
- Coherence and Presence
- Wholeness and Order
- Creative Intensity
- Sea of Images
- The Power of Art
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
- Photo Credits