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Photography as therapy — a way to beat the winter blues.
Or anytime blues. Nothing is more mindful than photography, here is how I am reaping the benefits and helping others to do the same.
It helps, of course, that I live in a fine city. The medieval city of Norwich has aeons of history, scenic landmarks, and stunning vistas to explore. But it doesn’t matter where you live; there is always something to photograph.
Even if you think there isn’t anything to photograph where you are, think again.
This is what happens when you go out to take photos, whether it be using a DSLR, a compact, or a smartphone:
- Focus
While you are concentrating on getting your camera settings right, your angles straight, the perfect framing of your subject, and checking how the light falls, you can’t be worrying about, well, anything really, because your mind is as focused as your lens.
As you assess the scene, the person, the animal, the sunset or sunrise, or the object you plan to photograph, your thought space is totally taken up with it. You want to recreate exactly what you see in your photograph. You are distracted by everything, bar what you see through your viewfinder or phone screen.
