Joyous Creation

Here are a few photos from a spontaneous Sunday afternoon stroll in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle. I’ve been reading Sean Tucker’s excellent bookThe Meaning in the Makingand thinking a lot lately about my motivations when I go out and take pictures. I’ve been approaching each trip with less of a focus on results and treating each photo as a simple act of joyous creation. It’s a subtle shift of mindset, and it’s really easy to fall back into the sort of low-level anxiety that comes with the desire to get amazing shots every time, but I’ve learned counter-productive to have that mindset. It’s kind of that perennial non-attachment idea. Wu wei.