Review by Peter BauerThis book includes six primary chapters named “Observation,”
“Awareness,” “Identity,” “Practice,” “Mastery,” and “Presence.”
These chapters include a final section, “Tools and Exercises,” to
help you better understand and incorporate the chapter’s con-
tent. The final chapter, “photography and awakening, the terrors
and pleasures of digital life” (without capital letters) is basically
an expression of the author’s personal philosophy. He states that
the book “chronicles the uses of photography for deep human
awakening of perception and creativity.” He then discusses
“great danger” in “an addiction to...the bits of information trans-
mitted through electronic screens.” Does this conflict with the
first paragraph of the introduction, in which the author writes
“No experience is complete, no meal finished, no friendship
consummated until we have taken a picture”? Hard to say in
this review, since “the minimum time needed to fulfill a first
pass of the lessons would be twelve to fifteen weeks.” nDavid Ulrich
Zen Camera: Creative
Awakening with a Daily
Practice in Photography
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