This summer I’m offering a condensed version of my original Adventures in Seeing workshop, which focuses on cultivating the nine contemplative habits.

This new six-week version will be more photography-based and, I hope, a way for you to experience your summer in a new way. I’m calling it a summer camp because it will be fun and help you to engage more fully with whatever your summer holds – even vacations.

The nine habits will be split into three main areas – taking a pause, focusing our attention, and making the connection.

Today, Making the Connection

Connection

In photography, we pause, focus our attention, and then click the shutter (make the connection).

Connection is about establishing a relationship. When we make a connection or click the shutter, we’re acknowledging and honouring the relationship. In any healthy relationship, we stay curious and open to possibilities. We let go of judgment and explore perspectives.

I believe that photography is about the relationship between photographer and subject. What we photograph reveals something about us and how we connect with the world. The photograph becomes the creative outcome of that relationship.

In the final two weeks of Adventures in Seeing, we’ll explore the relationships within the frame and the relationship between photographer and image.

Here’s one example of an exercise in making a connection. Photograph opposites – light/dark, form/space, under/over, top/bottom. Notice how these things are inseparable – always in relationship.

Further Reading

Creating Space for Relationships
Curiosity, the Antidote to Judgment and Anxiety?
Possibilities Open Up When We Shift Our Perspective

Learn more about Adventures in Seeing Summer Camp.