SLP 327

327 days into my year long making of a daily still life, five white feathers.

[Chris Cook]

Love this!

[Casablanca]

Fascinating how individual feathers are, like snowflakes. Each one unique.

[Susan Wakely]

I love the downy parts.

[Dave]

Wonderful lighting

[April]

Hi partner! I was curious about what being a Benedictine Oblate means, and came across a website by a Benedictine Oblate from my area of the world. I was surprised to find she practices "contemplative photography" https://beingbenedictine.com/category/contemplative-photography/
Then I noticed in your bio you describe yourself as contemplative by nature. Your challenge is to explore the practice of contemplative photography as described here http://seeingfresh.com/photo-submissions
and then take a photo following the guidelines from the "simplicity" assignment http://seeingfresh.com/photo-submissions/simplicity
You can explore the photo gallery related to this assignment to get ideas.

If this is too convoluted a challenge, please let me know and I'll set another. I just got caught up with the whole concept today.

[Kathy]

You kept the fluff fluffy and the smooth smooth.

[Andrew-Bede Allsop]

@aecasey Thank you for this challenge April. It is interesting that you have chosen this as a challenge as I have had the book 'The Practice of Contemplative Photography" for some time, it is inspirational and every now and again I dig it out for a re-read. I do consider my photography to be contemplative, this is especially true of most of my still life images (just 2 examples from this month are SLP 324 and SLP 326) but I also have gradually come to understand that contemplative photography is incredibly self-revealing both to the photographer him/herself and to those who view the finished photograph if, that is, they enter into the contemplative experience or at least try to (Matthew 13:9-16).
I accept your challenge!