Images from the Author's Daily Record with a cell phone camera.
Introduction: Contribute Your Verse
Basic Principles and Methods
Your Daily Record
Frame of No-Mind
Daily Observation
Lesson One: Observation
The Five Visual Elements of Photography
Tools and Exercises
Lesson Two: Awareness
Mindfulness in Photography
Heightened Awareness
Tools and Exercises
Lesson Three: Identity
Style and Authenticity
1+1 = Infinity
Communication and Evocation
Tools and Exercises
Lesson Four: Practice
Process and Attunement
Your Digital Crayons
Beginner’s Mind
Tools and Exercises
Lesson Five: Mastery
Freedom and Discipline
Inspiration
Pushing the Edge
Tools and Exercises
Lesson Six: Presence
Spectacle vs. Presence
Sift, Edit, and Refine
Power of Attention
Exercises in Presence and Attention
Photography and Awakening,
the Terrors and Pleasures of Digital Life
The Illusion of Separateness
Digital Life and Zen Practice
Photography in the Twenty-First Century
Reading List
Acknowledgments