"David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist's Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own. You'll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology--transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically."

Introduction : Contribute your verse -- Basic principles and methods -- Your daily record -- Frame of no-mind -- Daily observations -- Lesson one: Observation -- Five visual elements of photography -- Tools and exercises -- Lesson two: Awareness -- Mindfulness in photography -- Heightened awareness --

Tools and exercises --

Lesson three: Identity -- Style and authenticity --

1 + 1 = infinity --

Communication and evocation -- Tools and exercises -- Lesson four: Practice -- Process and attunement -- Your digital crayons -- Beginner's mind -- Tools and exercises -- Lesson five: Mastery -- Freedom and discipline -- Inspiration -- Pushing the edge --

Tools and exercises --

Lesson six: Presence -- Spectacle vs. Presence -- Sift, edit, and refine -- Power of attention -- Exercises in presence and attention -- Photography and awakening, the terrors and pleasures of digital life -- Illusion of separateness -- Digital life and Zen practice -- Photography in the Twenty-First Century --

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