• You had an entire weekend to yourself—from Friday evening until Sunday morning?
• You could focus on nothing but your photography?
• You could wander around with that camera and look for and find the “extraordinary” in the world around you?
• You could put aside all judgment and expectations and receive and make the photographic images YOU want to make?
• You could allow yourself to see what is and not what should be?
• You could connect with other women photographers for a weekend of sharing and learning and making “art?
• Would you allow yourself to see with the eyes of your heart?
• Would you allow yourself
  • To See?
  • To Feel?
  • To Think?
  • To Isolate?
  • To Organize?
  • To Experiment?
  • To Wonder (and Wander)?
  • To Question?
  • To Embrace?

For a couple of years, I have been reading and studying and practicing “contemplative photography.” Contemplative photography is not a technique or a “system.” It’s a practice; it’s a way of seeing.It’s not a “style” exactly, either, although there are some tell-tale signs that a photographer may or may not practice contemplative photography.

If you are a photographer and you want to spend a weekend in a beautiful setting with like-minded photographers, you may be interested in the Contemplative Photography Retreat. It is still in the planning stages, but it’s coming. It’s been in a five-year gestational period, but it is about to be born.

As the cliché goes, more details to come later in the news.