Zen Camera
Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography
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Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography
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Average rating4.3
Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone. David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own. You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.
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I'm fascinated with both Zen and photography. This is the perfect book for me.
I'm not an expert on either, and Ulrich doesn't claim to be a Zen master, but he knows a lot about Zen and photography. He offers a series of six lessons to practice photography from a Zen perspective. They all center on approaching photography with a beginner's mind.
I took away from this book many helpful ideas. He encourages photographers to take a lot of photos and to keep them all. He suggests copying the style of an admired photographer. He offers up the idea of cropping and editing the same photo many different ways. He urges us to try to start a self-defined project.
If this sounds like a book for you, it probably is.
