332858448 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub

Contemplating the act of framing in photography can help illuminate the ways we need to frame our own lives, in terms of both the stories we tell and the ways we spend our energy. Paying attention to the decisions we make with each photograph can illuminate our own interior process of listening and making space. When I am receiving photos, am I so eager to “capture” everything around me that I miss being fully present to the moment? Or are there moments when I remember that this is a practice of saying both yes and no, of not “taking” everything around me but waiting to receive, to see what feels right and true.

Visual Discernment

Photography has sometimes been called the art of exclusion. The image is only meaningful because certain elements were included and others were kept out of the frame. You remove the elements that don’t contribute to the emerging story. You keep out that which distracts the eye.

Much of the time when we choose to frame an image in a particular way, it is a largely intuitive process. I invite you to become more conscious of how this happens for you. Consider the ways the frame gives you visual clues and directs the eye in certain directions. Become curious about these choices you make when receiving photos without thinking it through too much. Hold these ideas gently, allowing them to just float across your awareness:

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