The language of photography is violent
- shoot with your camera
- capture and image
- take a photo
- grab a head shot
- even the slightly less violent but still ego driven ‘making a photograph'
INSTEAD - we are invited to see
we receive an image
we accept the image as a gift
This takes being aware and receptive, eyes up. Seeing like this means to see from the wholeness we already are and to behold or gaze to receive what is true in the world. We can receive images in the wild, in the domestic, in the ordinary and mundane and in the beautiful, grand and dramatic.
Before I talk about this image I want to invite you to into a position of receiving too. Breathe in, breathe out, rest in this moment, perhaps have your hands open, drop your shoulders, un-clench your jaw. Breathe again.
First, just take a minute to behold this image as you gaze is there somewhere that you eyes rest?
Try not to think too much but just see where you instinctively come to rest does part of the image call you in?
Is there part you the image you don’t want to look at? That can sometimes be as intriguing and revealing as the part you are drawn to.
Consider the elements, is there anything you are curious about?
What might Godde want to say to you through this image, or part of it?
Is there an invitation for you from Creator?
Take another moment to gaze, is there anything else for you to see?
Take in the whole again, is there anything else you notice?