• Music makers
• Marvellous isolation
• Unfenced existence
• Mere verisimilitude
• Blind gloom
• Unruminative technicality
• A superstructure of ideas
• Spacious discovery
• Primitive promptings
• Lost hours
• Shared state
• Silently singing
• Indelible shadows
• Facile technique
• Art happens
• Circumstances of beauty
• Quiet forces
• Beyond thought
• Abstract category
• Interior life
• Undisturbed space
• The ordinary day
• The hunter’s trance
• Other eyes
• What the river says
• Contained location
• Subtle dimension
• The pure stone

(Cambrian Pools, 2005)

The hunter’s trance

Pursued seriously, nature and landscape photography induces a mental state of pure concentration, which is both empty of thought yet saturated with awareness. There is almost no conscious processing, but intense perception of every detail. There is even a little tension.