DayinS is here this week!
Posted by blk1 on February 12, 2009
How lucky for Kevin and his family to be jetting off to Japan and how lucky for me to host this week’s DayinS and Anne is rising to the challenge next week.(More details to come)
This week, maybe selfishly, I’m going to suggest that you send me a photo to upload along with your distilled text for the week.
It was about a year ago that D’Arcy Norman suggested that, we might challenge ourselves to shoot a photo a day for the year 2008 and share as many of them as possible.
“What’s today’s picture?”
He calls it “mindful seeing,” and explains in a post he wrote last January:
Mindful seeing is the process of turning off the filters, of seeing your surroundings unfettered and unobstructed.
When viewing the world without filtering, even the most boring and banal subjects can become wondrous and interesting. We are constantly surrounded by interesting things that we normally don’t see – textures, lighting, patterns, shapes, objects, groupings, even messages.
Photographers are often described as distancing themselves from their surroundings by “hiding behind a camera” or “viewing the world only through a viewfinder.” I see photography from the exact opposite side of the coin. By mindfully seeing the world around me, I feel as though I am seeing much more than I would otherwise. I see patterns, convergence, divergence, shadows, lighting, juxtaposition, and composition that are likely missed by others. That’s not to say that I am “better” than any other – just that by being mindful of what I am seeing, I am aware of what is around me. And when I am aware, I am better able to take an interesting photograph.
If you’re interested, the group’s still there, and now there’s the 2009 challenge.
Of course there’s Photo Fridays at Flickr where we’ve been sharing together since June and going strong.
I joined this challenge as of January 1, 2009 on my photo blog, every day and so far so good. What will I discover about myself?
I want to keep returning to D’racy’s quote to rethink my passion for capturing images.
So if this challenge whets your appetite, get out our camera and capture something in your world with some of your wondrous words along side or just words is always welcome of course.
Cant’ wait to see what Kevin has to share with us, You can send me your photo in an email:
blkdrama@me.com and leave your sentence as a comment below.
Bonnie
February 12th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Thanks for the mission! I will several opportunities to take interesting pictures before Sunday, since I am actually leaving my neighborhood not once, but twice this week!
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February 28th, 2009 at 7:32 am
this is my first visit on your blog but i really liked it,,,specially the section of slice of life.
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May 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 am
Very informative post it was fun to read it..thanksss
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July 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
The idea about filters is interesting. We do gloss over much of what we see and hear on a daily basis. It would be an interesting experiment to try to approach a new day without preconceived notions.
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July 11th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
‘Seeing the world without filtering’ – how true is that! I think we’re all thinking far too much about how things should look, and not how they really are!
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