On 12 Jan 2015, at 01:45, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > >> On 2015-01-11 17:59 , Eric Weir wrote: >> >>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> ... What’s the secret of wildlife? >>> >>> Study, patience, discomfort, waiting, and more patience. >>> :-) >> >> Thanks, Godfrey. I’ve imagined that it’s not unlike hunting, which I did a >> fair bit of when I was a kid. > > when you asked the secret of wildlife (photography), it tickled a thought > that has stuck with me for decades — a comment by Gary Snyder (naturalist > poet and student of Zen) that he thought Zen had in part developed out of the > state of mind of the primeval hunter; for me, developing patience and > openness to raw experience are a big part of my contemplative approach to > photography >
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