Mindful Photography Workshop, The Art House, Sheffield 5th July 2019
2nd July 2019 Before I started Photography 3 I considered investigating Photography and Mindfulness (or wellbeing, or both). The Art House in Sheffield are promoting a 3 hour session so I'm off to find out more.... Mindful Photography Workshop, The Art House, Sheffield 5th July 2019 Don and Heather ran an afternoon taster workshop on Mindful Photography in Sheffield’s city centre. It is an area of photography that interests me but I didn’t really know enough about it to hold a discussion with anyone. Midfulness photography is also known as contemplative photography or “Miksang”. The practice came from a Tibetan monk and concerns photography as a way of reflecting a state of mind. After introductions from Don and Heather, we were encouraged to participate in a mindfulness (relaxation) exercise. As a way of slowing ourselves down, we had to choose a nature object from a tray and hold it for several minutes, rotating, touching and looking at it from different...