Bring your camera (or smart phone) and let's get this experiment started. Photography as a Healing Art ​ "The real thing about photography is that it brings you home to yourself, connects you to what fulfills your deepest longings. Images can be mirrors for our deepest truths, even in our simple snapshots." We will look at the first principle of how photography can be a healer: "The first time is when I am in search of the image, present only to that which is, focused on the moment. By virtue of this absorption in the now, I am released from the often painful grip of past and future" (Jan Phillips, God is at eye level, Photography as a Healing Art). When we are out to find that picture, we are fully focused on what surrounds us right here right now, not thinking of anything else, we are absorbed in the beauty of the moment. We will explore "how to see the subjects we love as metaphors to express what moves us most profoundly. The people, objects, and landscapes we are drawn to photograph have power to center us in the present, soothe the injured spirit, and lead us to our deepest truths."

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