I’ve experienced so much expansiveness in
the last while and although not doing so much writing, there’s been a creative flow
of a different kind. A couple of months
ago, I started doing a program which has opened not only my eyes, but all of my
senses and my very being to a vastness of pure potential which I find
absolutely amazingly fascinating. With
those experiences of the last few months, coupled with a recent opportunity to
be the subject of a couple of photo shoots, I found myself falling in love with
the images I saw, and more deeply in love with my own camera. Those experiences have inspired me to be more
attentive and present to what I see, and capture as much as I can with the lens
- capturing the essence of what I see in nature – the greatest inspiration for
my poetic verses.
This week I chaired my Wordsmiths writing
group meeting. Inspired by the photos I
had taken the week before at my parents’ farm, I decided we’d do an exercise
that entailed writing the story that is happening outside the photo frame. It’s one thing to see a photograph or a
painting and write its story, but it’s something else to write what happening
outside of that image. The result – 8
wonderfully creative stories churned up in a 20 minute writing session. Some of them will be developed into greater
works of prose and poetry, I’m sure, and I look forward to my fellow wordsmiths to share their
creations at a later date. 
I mentioned this writing exercise to my photographer later that night while discussing a shoot. Inspired by a photograph that he took of me (probably my most favourite shot of them all). It’s such a good piece that I asked his permission to share it here. Thanks to Steve Di Monte of Change Your Life Photography for sharing.
