Let’s start or end your day with calm and alert focus and a 14-second photo meditation at blue hour. Blue hour is that hour before sunrise or after sunset when the sun is low on the horizon and the light is soft and cool toned. It evokes a lovely mysteriousness to your photos (and when you're at a lake, it's beautiful to see!).
Remember to let your exhale be longer than your inhale.
Breathe in and out through your nose.
inhale to a count of 5
pause for two
breathe out to a count of 7
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Do a 15-second photo meditation with me at golden hour
A morning meditation practice starts your day with calm intention (much better than starting your day with the outside world’s chaotic agenda).
It boosts your focus, decompresses your nervous system and is an anchor point of relaxation throughout your day.
I was laying in bed this morning on our vacation in Northern Michigan, not entirely thrilled to be wide awake at 5:30am. Matt rolled over and said, “look we’re on on golden pond this morning”. I looked out the window and it was gorgeous out. How he knew this through the blackout shades is a mystery, especially since we’ve had quite a few rainy mornings, up here, but I’m glad he spoke up.
I made my way down to the lake (a 20-second walk) to enjoy listening to the lapping waves while watching the sunrise.
It was beautiful.
So much of photography is a meditation to me, a living, breathing, walking, shooting mindfulness experience, but this morning was even more lovely because I was in such awe of...
Did you know there's a word for the sound of snowflakes?
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Did you know there’s a word in Japanese for the silence of snow?
It’s shinshin and alludes to the absence of sound that was once there before.
Cover by Eron Haubert Additional photos by Dianne Bertini, Heather Reardon, Kimberly Lebron, Davida Kales, Mattie May, Shea Cochran, Ruth Nielsen
In our jacked up, noise-polluted, busy as all get-out world, have you ever contemplated the sound of silence? It's a rare thing, these days?
Even in my quiet house out in the country with very few neighbors, there is still the hum of multiple appliances buzzing in the background. But when the power goes out I notice that startling absence of white noise. And it's lovely.
Snow is nature’s best sound absorber.
The space between flakes once they’ve settled on the ground perfectly muffle the decibels of daily life.
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