On Being 7 yrs old with a Nikon

Of late.  when photographing.  I often imagine "seeing" with the eye' s of a child.  By experimenting with this kind of mind-tone, I work on being open to the world around me as deeply and as mindfully as I can.   I think of child-like qualities, of curiosity and wonderment, of merriment, and delight.  More often then not, at some point I start to experience flashes of awakening and instances of deep joy.

This image is about imagining looking at the world through eyes connected to the heart qualities of a child.  In my mind I am 7 years old.

Its a Saturday.  The day is warm, my belly is full, I feel happy and content and am on my way to visit a friend.  My heart is open to the world and life is joyful.

The technique is a combination of multiple exposures, focus, and exposure.  The "art" is maybe something along the lines with what William James meant by  "the more."




This image to the left, was taken after a delightful hour or so in a garden.  I was standing on the driveway, looking up into this beautiful glowing tree and wondering if i could somehow manage to record this moment in some way that might do the experience of being there and seeing it, justice?

So I just stood there looking up in wonderment and kept dialing until I  managed to dialed in the focus and the exposure until the camera and the spirit were in synch.  This is an example of a two-shot multiple exposure image.  When doing these kinds of images one frame is always in focus and one is not.  How much it is not in focus is, it seems, always an unknown factor.  Its that element of time, of chance, of serendipity, that comes to one every now and then.  Its that experience of "the more," I think.
                                                               




 This was taken in the worst possible light in the best possible way.  This image in Greenmont  is also a two frame multiple exposure.   Among several  things I have learned from using this technique are: 1) constrasty lighting conditions  become softened and 2) compositions that utilize space tend to lend themselves to this kind of photographic play.