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I set out this morning looking for a few good shots. We had snow here again, and I thought I could find some nice images on snow on flowers, etc.

But you know, some days you’re better off staying home. I poked around for a little while until I realized that the problem was not a lack of scenery but my own fatigue.

They aren’t lying when they say beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. My tired eyes simply could not behold the beauty around me.

So I came home and took a nap!

I felt as blissful this morning after photographing as I do after a long meditation. Is photography a kind of meditation?

For me the answer is yes. Meditation to me is anything that allows my mind to experience increasing subtlety. When I start photographing I often feel like it takes a while to “warm up.” As I continue it starts getting subtle. At the end I don’t want to quit.

What’s your experience? Does increasing subtlety in something you do feel like meditation to you?

I was out photographing the apricot blossoms again this morning. You can see the new photos in my Straight From The Camera section of the site.