The camera can be a wonderful tool for observation, study and greater awareness, offering a way to slow down & pause. Sometimes, lugging a camera around can feel like a total burden, buffering you from genuine experience. At other times though, it can have the opposite effect: to bring you in closer contact with the NOW - to frame presence & beauty. The photo experience becomes a means of establishing contact - with a tree, a person, a building. a vibrational frequency, an atmosphere, or a certain lightness of being.