Everything Happens at the right time....

One thing that is sometimes difficult to accept is that everything happens at the right time. When you want something to happen...you mostly want it to happen NOW! But living a spiritual life, surrendering yourself to the will of God means that everything happens at the right time in your life...when you are fully ready....and when it is meant to happen. I try really hard to accept this because I know that if something isn't right for me then it simply doesn't happen! I accept that God wants me to be happy and fulfilled and wants the best for me.

The problem with being a mere mortal is that I am impatient, patience is not always easy and I do have a certain 'dislike' of that word because I have heard it so many times!

But I feel a change coming and I think that I am ready to appreciate what will make me happy.

Timeless

Timeless

The Age Old Tradition of Tree Marking

Equivalence

Minor White (Photographer) said:

 'be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.'

I've been reading his journal on Equivalence written in 1963 and have found in him a kindred spirit. I have been looking back on the work I have done over the past year at college and recognise that my style of photography is that of 'Equivalence'

When I photograph a place or an object I use it as a metaphor for something else, and that something else is usually a feeling or an emotion. Its a meditative state I think, that when I take a picture, for example a door or a window, that door to me has a meaning....to walk through it and make a discovery whether that is a physical discovery or a mental discovery. The door leads somewhere, I dont know where, I just know that it does.

When I visited the Art Galleries in London last year, I saw Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings and painting for the first time. My response was an emotional one, it was visceral and not intellectual. I could 'feel' his struggle to create perfection and on some level I recognised in me the struggle I go through to try and reach perfection. It is very unlikely that I will reach that height because I am not a genius, but I strive for it and thats what made me respond the way I did. 

It was also the fact that I was in the presence of a master of his art and that made me feel so privileged .....to view the work of a master is nothing less than that, a rare privilege. 

So I have discovered my 'style' of photography and now that I know what it is and that it has a name I can develop it further.

Black and White

I just like these images,

 nothing more, nothing less

Searching for the Light....

The light never fades....sometimes it just doesnt shine as bright......