Some of the Olympic athletes look like they are in a trance when getting ready for the start. Swimmers wear already their goggles and headsets with music to induce an even deeper focus trance, blocking out all possible disturbing factors.
How about photographers? Isn’t a photographer in a trance like state when being connected with what he/she is photographing? This state of forgetting the world around you and focusing on the subject and light, walking around it to shoot it from different angles, discovering new perspectives and moving with the light. Photographers can enter this trance like state easily and that makes them vulnerable for dangers like cars approaching, balls flying around and more serious things, just because they wouldn’t notice. Be conscious about that and cover your back before you surrender to the pleasant trance of photographing great subjects.
Ute Sonnenberg for www.rohoyachui.com
August 8, 2012 at 9:08 pm
That’s interesting, I often feel like I am in a trance when I write poetry. I can see how it could sometimes become dangerous in photography, though.
August 9, 2012 at 11:40 am
Yes, Genie, I think you need to be in a kind of creative trance when writing, but you are in a safe place when you do that, not on a busy road or so