Saicho (766-822), the Japanese founder of the Tendai school, taught of the Buddhahood of all phenomena.

Whenever I photograph, I seek the Buddhahood of the subject, whatever it may appear to be. I must first feel that it is Alive! with spirit before I may press the shutter. And the more I meditate beforehand, the more Alive! the subjects are.

The Life Energy of a picture to a large extent depends on the dance of the eyes, and how in phase their movement is with the Dance of the Pulse.

There are a number of reasons why I use a tripod for my “serious” – that is healing – photography. The obvious one is to improve the sharpness of the image.

More importantly, it is because I can accurately frame the subject just so to encapsulate a moment of order out of the apparent chaos of the totality before me. I have the time, the freedom, and the peace to feel the subject, and to feel what the subject is causing me to feel. To have an intense, intimate relationship. Spirit to Spirit, Knowing that all Spirits are One.

Everyone, everything, can be Seen as your Mother of Love, for all is Spirit. To come to have this Vision is to at last have your anguish alleviated.

Photography is the art
of relationships:
the camera and me
then we with the subject,
then we three
with the viewer.

True Photography:
using the light
for Enlightenment.

Can you see God
in the ordinary,
as the ordinary?
in this rock, for example?       No.

I find myself singing
“You Are Too Beautiful.”
Why? To who?
To the tree I'm taking.

I call this tree my subject. And yet it's really me who is its subject: subject to its Emanation.

Thank you.

“It is God in you that responds to God without.”

Emerson