Session 2 (Sep 17-23) - The "Eye" - Seeking Simplicity in the Environment

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This session will expand on some preliminary musings (introduced in Session 1) on “seeing” and ways of finding potential subjects to photograph. We will see how cultivating simplicity is synonymous with achieving an expanded awareness of place and time. We will explore how our state of mind determines what is visible to us and profoundly influences what we most strongly resonate with in our surroundings, and provide examples and exercises to heighten our powers of observation and perception. 

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Essay (18 pages, pdf/2.8 mb)

Exercises  (extract from main essay; 3 pages, pdf/146 kb)

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Links

(Picture) Ansel Adams: Monolith, The Face of Half Dome
 

(Picture) Galen Rowel: Rainbow over the Potala Palace
 

(Video) Goethian Science - Arthur Zajonc and Craig Holdredge
 

(Video) Gregory Bateson on perception

The Spirit of Sauntering (Maria Popova, BrainPickings Blog)

Goethe and the Evolution of Science (Craig Holdrege, New York Academy of Sciences)

Walking (Thoreau)
 

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