Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone. David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for
Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone.
David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own.
You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.
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Terrific value I bought two photography books from Amazon on the same day, this one and another that cost almost twice the price of Zen Camera. They arrived together, and I was sure the prices were swapped. This book in terms of content, binding and quality should cost much more, when compared to the second book of the two.This book begs for the use of a highlighter… the information contained in each section is so dense, that a casual read is not going to give you all that the book can. There…
You have got to get this book! I am rewriting my review because I was premature judging this book. I had started it but got pulled away by life. I started reading again last night and was up all night reading. Kindle has the highlight option and it was difficult for me not to highlight everything. Perhaps the book started slow. To cut to the chase here ….this is a amazing book! As I drilled through the first 180 pages David weaves in the work of other creatives he has studied. The summary of the sources and methods…
It seems like an elementary concept to me Since photographers capture ‘moments’ in time, do they realize they are already practicing their craft ‘mindfully’, in the moment? It seems like an elementary concept to me, but a novel approach to one who isn’t familiar with Buddhist philosophy and how it relates to capturing images. There are some unique exercises/techniques to practice if you’re a pro/amateur photographer who is feeling in a rut. Not much in-depth discussion concerning the ‘Zen’ approach to the medium, yet causes one to…