Do you want to be a better photographer? The NOW is important!

I believe that mindfulness is the key to all things spiritual. It is an awakening to the spirit of being and revelation. Mindfulness is the practice of becoming aware of your surroundings. It is the awareness of your breathing and the air, the things you touch and the things you see. It is becoming one with everything around you.  When mindfulness is practiced, you become more aware and you open the door to clarity and understanding. Everything becomes connected. Things become easier to see. The world becomes more interesting. Suddenly you are engaged with the world. You discover things that reveal themselves because of your state of acute consciousness.

How aware are you when you have a camera?

Meditation is not what you think...

Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn - Video

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My NEW book! Available NOW! 

Rethinking Digital Photography can be purchased at your local Barnes and Noble or online at Amazon , Barnes and Noble, Hastings, Powells, and Tower Books in the USA.  It is also sold  in Canada at  Chapters Indigo and other fine book stores in the UK, Austrailia, New Zealand and other countries worldwide.

Photography is changing at the speed of light--and this imaginative manual offers an amazing look at unconventional imaging methods, both digital and analog. Detailed and playful, it presents ideas for repurposing old cameras, making photo devices out of common household items, and creating unique images with today's cameras, mobile phones, software, and other digital technology. From using a TTV cameras lens to panorama and 3D shooting, these techniques will expand any photographer's repertoire!

Liese R. - Chicago, Il. USA

"The pages are beautiful, so well designed: large enough type, simple, clear instructions which make the information and techniques non-threatening and the images DO inspire. The HDR is something I hadn't worked with but I will now. I am a film shooter but I see that Neel's ideas can still translate to my medium and are great for my teaching. Thanks for a really useful hands-on book for photogs and photo teachers alike!" 

 

John S. - Colorado Springs, Co. USA

"This is just a wonderful book. Full of all sorts of innovative and original photographic techniques to explore. It functions in about equal measure as both a detailed manual and an inspirational guide. So, there are shooting techniques described, which involve actually physically modifying your camera or cameras - and expert instructions (and appropriate warnings!) are provided in most of these cases. Plus, tutorial material is provided in other chapters on post-processing explorations…  And inter-connections are forged also: some of the images which are postworked come directly from the adapted and "foreign-lens-to-body-combination" cameras. Well done.…" 

Walter  J. - Upstate NY. USA

"Strap on your seatbelts as Photographer and Digital Imaging Wizard John Neel takes us "behind the curtain" in his laboratory of seemingly mundane gadgets and graft-ons, merging traditional and non-traditional hardware and software to produce wondrous and artistic imagery. Unlike magicians who leave the viewer in a befuddled state of amazement John shares enough theory and technique to make this readily accessible to the everyday Joe who wants to extend his image making horizons. Can photography be any more fun than this?"

 

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Pixiq; 1 edition

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1600597866

ISBN-13: 978-1600597862

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