When we photograph, we do not actually reach out and take anything. A camera is basically a dark box with a receptor (film or digital sensor) on one side and a small opening on the other. Light reflected from the subject is projected through the opening by the lens onto the receptor opposite it. When we do photography, we receive an image that is reflected from the subject. Instead of photography as taking, then, we can envision it as receiving. Instead of a trophy that is hunted, an image is a gift.
~Howard Zehr*
*cited in: The Little Book of Contemplative Photography
a meditative journey 
Turning the usual thinking of ‘taking’ images around, what a lovely way to describe it. Thank you for sharing that
It is a challenge to describe photography in non-violent terms; e.g., capture and shoot
For those who proclaim
they’ve grown weary of children,
there are no flowers
Basho
It is easy
to hate this painful world,
but how can I leave a
a world
that includes this child?
~Izumi Shikibu
I really like this perspective. Thanks.
Thank you
That’s lovely!
🙂