{"id":3590,"date":"2012-05-08T19:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2014-08-15T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T04:08:21","slug":"photography-as-a-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/photography-as-a-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography as a meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stalk the light, and the world fades away.<br \/>\nThere is only this moment,<br \/>\nthis camera,<br \/>\nthis flower,<br \/>\nthis light.<\/p>\n<p>Which camera? Irrelevant:<br \/>\nan old beater, camera phone, DSLR&#8230;<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>The flower &#8211; deconstructed<br \/>\npetal, stamen,<br \/>\nline, curve,<br \/>\ncolor.<\/p>\n<p>I capture the light, not the flower<br \/>\nThe way the light moves and flexes,<br \/>\naround and through,<br \/>\nreflection,<br \/>\nabsorption,<br \/>\nglow.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it&#8217;s not even about me;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s about embracing the light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/photography-as-a-meditation\/bluebells\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6765\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6765\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/photography-as-a-meditation\/bluebells\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bluebells.png?fit=640%2C513\" data-orig-size=\"640,513\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bluebells\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bluebells.png?fit=640%2C513\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6765\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bluebells.png?resize=640%2C513\" alt=\"bluebells - CoffeeJitters.Net\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bluebells.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bluebells.png?resize=300%2C240 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stalk the light, and the world fades away. 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