Zen photography:

1. One camera, one lens (RICOH GR III)
2. Monochrome (one color). Or for color photography, keeping the colors super simple.
3. JPEG only
4. Direct, honest, and genuine photos. Only photographing what you’re interested in or care about.
5. No metrics for your photos. Sharing your photos on your website or blog. No social media.
6. Enjoying the perpetual process of improving your photography. No finality, or no perfect state. Continually making new photos, and striving for more.
7. Photography as giving you calm strength, an invigorated calm, and a strong purpose of living and life.

ZEN PHOTO IDEAS:

1. Simple compositions. Simpler is better. Simple and elegant is the goal.
2. Impute your soul into your images. Only photograph what you care about.
3. Make photos to reflect on the transitoriness of life, yet delight in the fact that we are alive now!

ZEN

Less is better:

• To Improve Your Life, Subtract the Superfluous from Your Life
• Same But Different
• The Zen of Street Photography
• Zen Photography
• Walking Meditation in Street Photography
• How to Be a Zen Street Photographer
• The Less You Have, the More You Have
• Prune Excess
• Prune in Order to Grow
• Zen in the Art of Street Photography
• The 7 Aesthetics of Zen Art For Photographers
• 15 (More) Lessons Taoism Has Taught Me About Street Photography
• How to Find Tranquility in Your Photography
• How to Find Zen in Street Photography
• Why Less is More in Street Photography (and Life)
• Why You Should Shoot with One Camera and One Lens
• 5 Essentialist Tips in Street Photography
• 10 Principles of Good Street Photography
• Deep Focus
• Follow Your Intuition
• Notice
• Listen
• Downgrade
• Less, But Better
• Seek Emptiness
• Wonderment & Awe
• Timeless

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