"Walk On The Train" [Gross and Shapiro - Tao Of Photography - Reflections - pp.12-33]
I’m hearing, “Look around your space, my son,
Now, in your world, where you think naught’s begun;
It has – I want you full aware today
Of what transpires, on this eternal day.“So, disengage – those items you have read
Are for your life, not photo-tasks – instead,
Don’t wear the coat as costume to your life,
But be that way, yourself, and with your wife.“So, disengage – the world shifts in its view;
Don’t hold it fast; be open to what’s new;
You change as well, a part of constant flow;
‘Walk on the train’, and world around you’ll know.“‘Forget your self’, and ‘More receptive be’
‘Your photos take, beyond photography,
As life you live beyond its living out –
Wu-wie indeed – live life as life’s about’.“‘Spontaneous, take pictures as you go’;
You cannot see from here what you will know;
Your focus freed in free-fall through each scene,
Then in the end let pix show where you’ve been.“So ‘Dis-engage’, ‘Accept the life around’ –
‘What’s past moves on, what comes is newest ground’;
But pause right here, blessed by the transience
Of life itself – each day a new-formed dance.“Shift to the present; live in the stream of grace;
Each shift and change brings newness to your place;
Be open to the changes to your scene,
And celebrate what ‘is’, not ‘might have been’.“Life is surprise and serendipity;
Allow that fact, don’t limit what you see;
Life’s bigger than your time and place on earth,
So let your camera catch what comes to birth.“Decisive moments ebb and flow with ease,
So enter in surroundings as you please,
And be at one with world of which you’re part,
So photographs are life, not outside ‘art’.”Thanks Lord for this.
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