Tao of Photography
Monday, January 30, 2012

Revery of the Unknowable

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"Science of nature has one goal: To find both manyness and whole. Nothing 'inside' or 'Out There,' The 'o...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Discarnate Muses and Artists

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"To take photographs. Such was the entry point into photography. Along the creek beds and waterfalls seeing was always possession a...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Inseparability of Life & Cosmos

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"The Western man who claims consciousness of oneness with God or the universe ... clashes with his society's concept of rel...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Dreaming with Open Eyes

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"From the mast-head the mirage is continually giving us false alarms. Everything wears an aspect of unreality. Icebergs hang upsid...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Dissolution of Consciousness

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"Seeing is perception  with the original,  unconditioned eye.  It is a state of consciousness  in which separation of  p...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Mind and Mystery

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"The state of mind of the photographer while creating is blank… For those who would equate 'blank' with a kind of emptiness,...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Eternal Purity

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"O King, you say that Atman is infinite. Well, that which is infinite must be unconditioned by time and space. Absence of duality i...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Where is the Universe?

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"A Buddhist scholar named Nogaguna, who lived about A.D. 200, invented a whole dialectic and founded a school where the "lead...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Wynn Bullock: Color Light Abstractions

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"Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief that everything ...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Rhythmic Orders

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"As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders a...
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Andy Ilachinski
Virginia, United States
I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in the modeling of complex adaptive systems (with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics). However, both by temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far longer than my Ph.D. gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics. Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever since. My creative process is very simple. I take pictures of what calms my soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul and the world. Not Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a "Sudden Stillness." My favorite quote: "That which you are seeking is doing the seeking." (St. Francis of Assissi)
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