Exploring Photography as a Meditation Practice

Take a break from the busyness of life and spend the day exploring photography as a way to slow down and notice the world around you. With the peaceful setting of Well of Mercy as your backdrop, this retreat offers space to relax, reflect, and see with fresh eyes.

In Contemplative Photography, the camera is viewed as an extension of a person’s heart and mind and the resulting photographs as a visual, and highly personal, diary of experience and creative expression. Where traditional photography focuses on subject and technique, Contemplative Photography teaches us to pause, focus and connect with life. It is a form of meditation, anchoring the practitioner in present moment reality. Photographer Minor White is known to have encouraged his students to meditate before they began their camera work. By learning to slow down, focus and connect before clicking the shutter, we’ll discover that ordinary reality can be magical. This daylong retreat is great for photographers, meditators, artists at heart, or the curious wanting to explore the symbiotic relationship between contemplative practice and photography. You can use whatever camera that is available to you, including your cell phone.

Please bring a camera of choice, water bottle, and wear weather appropriate clothing.

Lunch will be provided.

Check in at the Well House when you arrive.