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...
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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
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.
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