Here we sit again on the porch, hopefully quenched, at least full from a week of wonderful sharing, encouraging and witnessing our photographic process. Like a gardener watching his plants, I feel this year will be a bumper crop ready to be harvested in each of your lives.
This week is about fertilizer – a fertilizer for the soul that waters your being so you may come to your full blossom and live at the cusp of your overflowing cup. What does this look like? What does this have to do with Photography? Photography as a discipline has led me to a fullness of living, a place where I connect to my inner being and, from that place, to all life. Here I disappear and blend with all that surrounds me. When I can be fully in this place, it takes my breath away, time stands still and all the worries in my small world disappear. In those moments, I am overwhelmed by beauty and gratitude. I breath in and notice a large wave coming my way and about to engulf me. I grab my tripod and move before it is to late. (photo above). Later with the image, I can write and re-live much of what occurred.
This week I touched that place in me and witnessed it in each of you. Both in-front and behind the camera, our link to each other was exposed as we were in this quest together, tantalized at the throne of discovery. Revealed was a passion for seeing, for being alive and being part of the life that surrounds us. Thank you for helping to create the circumstance and opportunity that allowed this to happen.
May the fragrance of the moments we shared water your beings and bring them to full bloom through your creativity in your life, world and together through this inspiration we heal… even possibly in this moment our world.
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Thanks, Rikki. I have arrived home refreshed and cold (snow on the ground here in Corvallis Sunday morning.) I wrote poetry on Molokai, something I haven’t done in years, looked at landscapes differently, and at myself, too. Bob
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