Standing your ground

Contrast provides for richer life experience. Highs and lows contribute to it in a very different ways. And yet we are conditioned to revert back from these experiences to the place where nothing is changing and everything stays the same. We like to feel comfortable somewhere in the middle. It is paradox of our lives. Wanting richer life experience and yet doing everything possible to jeopardise that intent.

The same applies to our approach to photography. We tend to do things the way we have always done them before. We approach our work the same way we did it in the past while relaying always on the proven methods which deliver dependable results. We like to feel safe and taking risk doesn’t comes to us naturally. So, it pays to get to know self and the way we think and the way we make decisions.

Ordinarily, under these windy conditions in Tasman NP I would not risk standing so close to the edge of the cliff. However, I was intrigued with the perfect stillness of this tree in a contrast to the chaos surrounding it.

I realised, despite our inherent need to run from the bad situations sometimes the best thing is to do nothing and to stay our ground while storm passes by. It always does.

And it always surprises me how capturing that one moment in time connects with my world on so many different levels.