It's so hard to experience reality directly without identifying, naming, classifying. We evolved in a way in order to survive in the world and filters are part of if.

I think we are evolving spiritually as well. Meditation and mindfulness are part of it.

I have found that when I spend a day on the river in the wild with my camera, tripod, and big lens, I am never more in the moment. When I am gazing through the lens in full frame of a bird it is total raw experience. Then I get home and download the pics to my computer and I start naming, classifying, and organizing.

That is why nature photography is such a passion of mine. I am the dude on the bench gazing at the tree when in the field.

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