Friday, October 24, 2014

A Thought for Today: Change the Way You See things....


































   I try, through my visual listening exercises, to change the way I engage the landscape.  We are so use to seeing our way through, usually with a camera stuck to our eye, that our other senses are pushed aside.  When I began to respond to the pond in a more emotional and intuitive way, I began to see totally different things.  Nature as artist, as the grand painter of expressionistic "pondscapes"; now I see them every time I visit the pond.

I began to see the spirit of the place, not just merely its material manifestations, and the photographs I receive are something new and exciting for me.  Try it.  Try to change the way you see things...



2 comments:

foxysue said...

I have a love affair like this, it started some time ago, I visit the five ascending ponds excavated many moons ago by Bess of Hardwick in Elizabethan times. Each pond has something different going on, each a different personality if you like! The last one on the rise is my favourite, to sit under the bows of this enormous tree that spreads and hangs over a seemingly bottomless dark glossy pool is mystical. Magic happens here! x

Patricia Turner said...

How wonderful! I am so glad you've found your own Walden...a place of retreat and reflection. It is a transforming thing, to be sure.