Zen Camera

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.