Stuck in the House: Photography for Well-Being, #0

By Lee Aspland

Photography for Well-Being is all about doing creative, mindful photography activities and then sharing your favourite photos.This eBook is an introduction to Photography for Well-Being 1 and Photography for Well-Being 2 and provides four activities that demonstrate how photography can support your well-being. Two of the activities are for when you are Stuck in the House and in need of creative inspiration. The other two are for a short exercise period, out of the house, necessary to maintain your equilibrium in challenging times.

 

Each activity has a common structure and they all include these six features:

1. Creativity: Improving your seeing skills, learning and enhancing your photography skills, and creating photos that you love.
2. Being in the great outdoors (and occasionally indoors, because sometimes you have to stay in.)
3. Gentle physical exercise.
4. Love of a place, person, thing or experience.
5. Mindfulness through a Mindful Photography Practice.
6. Social interaction by sharing your favourite photo.

These activities work. I know I used them to recover from major surgery and I am using them now as we live through the Covid-19 pandemic. They will work for you too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lee Aspland
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393282167

Lee Aspland

Lee Aspland is a photographer, author and mindful practitioner. He creates photography that reflects how he feels, and how others feel, about this glorious world we all live in. Lee creates photographs that capture a moment in time, a fleeting feeling or thought, a hope or fear. He calls this Mindful Photography - the creation of a photographic slice of life, a single moment in time that shares what was seen and felt. Oh yes, he writes about that too. Lee shares his approach to photography (and life) in his books. Each of these helps you to develop your photography skills, enhances your ability to see a photograph and encourages you to create photos that illuminate your life. If you are interested in these possibilities and particularly if you are living with difficulty or great change then Lee's books are for you.

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Introduction

Thanks for downloading and welcome to this little eBook. The inspiration for its creation was the Covid-19 pandemic, but the photo activities shared here can be done at any time, especially if you are Stuck in the House for any reason.

During 2020 I will be releasing two eBooks titled Photography for Well-Being 1 and Photography for Well-Being 2. This eBook is an introduction to those books and provides four activities that demonstrate how photography can support your well-being. Two of the activities are for when you are Stuck in the House and in need of creative inspiration. The other two are for a short exercise period, out of the house, necessary to maintain your equilibrium in challenging times.

Photography for Well-Being is all about doing creative, mindful photography activities and then sharing your favourite photos. Each activity has a common structure and they all include these six features:

Creativity: Improving your seeing skills, learning and enhancing your photography skills, and creating photos that you love.

Being in the great outdoors (and occasionally indoors, because sometimes you have to stay in.)

Gentle physical exercise.

Love of a place, person, thing or experience.

Mindfulness through a Mindful Photography Practice.

Social interaction by sharing your favourite photo.

I designed all of the activities in Photography for Well-Being 1 and 2 when I was recovering from major surgery. I believed that getting out with my camera with a creative goal, some guidelines and an intention to be aware of what I was seeing would make me feel great and support my recovery. It did! I know that these photography activities work for me. I believe that they will work for you too. I have road-tested every activity that I have created. Not only that, but I also have kept a journal where I have written up how the photo activity was for me, including a small photo to illustrate my entertaining scrawl. I have included these thoughts with each of the photography activities that follow – not in the original