Photography as Meditation

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Creating Special Magic

I believe that street photography has much in common with a meditative approach to photography—because street photography can include a variety of photographic styles, it requires a heightened level of attention. The resulting images of life in metropolitan cities, however, are not what most people would commonly associate with images that inspire a meditative calm. Usually people consider images that exhibit stillness or convey a special mystical quality to be more indicative of a meditative mood.

The basic building block of photography is light. All moods in photographs are influenced by light. Photographing the same subject with different lighting will produce completely different results. Lighting reveals aspects ...