Contemplative photography

Henk Aalberts, photographer, The Netherlands | www.henk-aalberts-photography.com

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rails to  nowhere

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Great is the road I climb

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you wait and wait and then you get this feeling like things are going to line up, and then you take the photo and hopefully everything lined up for you

Tim Barber (in: SHOOT, Photography of the moment, New York 2009, Rizzoli)

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

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Church in decline, crosses down, some chairs left for.....

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Contemplative photography

The essence of contemplative photography

Watching something with a certain relaxedness, enabling an inspired experience before you push the shutter

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There is a grammar in the visual language for me to discover

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rusty and dusty, old wine factory

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blue not connected

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A fisherman

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The sky has no limits

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It's all in the present, it is here and now, it's magic

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Each photograph is a new reality

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Abandoned and forgotten but born of their isolation in the eye of the camera 

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The rhythm of the object

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Slow down, follow the internal clock, the universe has all the time

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There is a grammar in the visual language for us to discover