Tao of Photography
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

What is a Wave?

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"...'An object is a monotonous process.' A stone is a vibration of quanta that maintains its structure for a while, just as a m...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Forests of Symbols

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"So long as a symbol is a living thing, it is the expression for something that cannot be characterized in any other or better way. The...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Cognitive Fantasy

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"It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will ne...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Hegelian Dialectics

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"...life, beginning from a non-developed unity has run through the circle towards perfect unity. The world and the possibility of separ...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Order in Consciousness

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"The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—i...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Deep Time

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"Above all, geology makes explicit challenges to our understanding of time. It giddies the sense of here-and-now. The imaginative exper...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Inviting Childhood's Wonder

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"We dismiss wonder commonly with childhood. Much later, when life’s pace has slackened, wonder may return. The mind then may find so mu...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The World is a Weave

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"I cannot hope to make you understand how the world is truly made,' he told her. 'Metaphor, then: the world is a weave, like th...
Monday, January 09, 2023

Form, Space, and Light

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"Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence  of the past, the spirit of...
Friday, January 06, 2023

Accidental Universe

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"Evidently, the fundamental laws of nature do not pin down a single and unique universe. According to the current thinking of many phys...
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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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