Mindful Photography for the Martini Generation

Jan. 5, 2016 - PRLog -- If you love photography, would like to slow down a little from your hectic life, live a little more mindfully and create some personal, emotionally rich photos then The Mindful Photographer provides an online learning experience that will help you do just that. And now you can follow the course anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Mindful Photography describes being totally present when creating photographs. It embraces the practice of mindfulness - being present with the one thing that we are doing - and relates this to the art of creating photographs.

The Mindful Photographer is a programme of four flexible online courses offered by Photential, an innovative photography training business based in Swansea, Wales. Lee Aspland the creator of Photential explains that ‘The Mindful Photographer’ provides a framework to improve how and what you see. It introduces photography practices that encourage and develop mindfulness and through that process create photographs that connect to the moment, emotion and place.

The Mindful Photographer has recently been redesigned so that each of the four courses (Seeing, Thinking, Feeling and Being) can be taken at any time, wherever you are in the world. Each course has individual support and a group page where you share your photos and thoughts with the course community.

Mindfulness is a bit of a buzz word in the media so we asked Lee to describe what it is and to explain how that can help our photography. Lee explained that Mindfulness is, “paying attention to your experience in the present moment, without judgement or criticism”. Lee has taken this idea and introduced photography techniques and activities that bring you into the present moment and connect you with what you are really seeing. He says, “Our techniques and assignments in The Mindful Photographer slow you down from your high speed, task driven day and allow you to experience some of the benefits of mindfulness, whilst creating personal and beautiful photography. You really see what has always been there”.

If you are interested in photography, have a digital camera and would like to become more mindful through your photography and create fabulous images, ‘The Mindful Photographer’ is for you.

Visit www.photential.com