This course is an introduction to Mindful Photography. Mindful Photography is mindfulness applied to and developed through photography. It is a mindful practice and it offers the opportunity for you to develop your ability to be present in the moment, connected to your whole experience, expand your perspective and therefore enrich your photographs.

Mindful Photography provides you with the opportunity to use what you see as your anchor; in much the same way as when you meditate you use your breath as an anchor. When you are out creating photographs, the visual experience becomes your primary sensory concern. You can be sitting or walking, observing your surroundings. Every time you notice that your mind has wandered off - planning a shot, dreaming of a photographic possibility, worrying about your ability or even just thinking about later in the day - you come back to the visual experience.

This observance is at the heart of the 4 Stage Seeing Practice. This practice will act as your foundation for developing a mindful approach to photography and will develop your ability to see, to see everything that is in front of you. Perhaps that sounds too simple. How difficult can it be to see? I believe that the speed we now take photographs, in that desire of acquisition, restricts our ability to see what is really in front of us.

The 4 Stage Seeing Practice is a kind of meditation. It is in essence mindfulness applied to photography. It is at the heart of being present with your visual experience and is the foundation of becoming a mindful photographer. This practice has the potential to transform your photos from good to great.