When you are deep in the grief process it can be very easy to become somewhat lost and blind to how much praise you should give yourself. Sometimes everything feels like a struggle and even the simplest thing can feel like a bloody mountain. We can chastise ourselves for not being the same person doing… Continue reading Reflection Is Important
I am very accepting of people dying. I think working in healthcare for almost twenty years makes me very aware that everyone's story, including my own, will end at some point. However, it is always emotionally challenging dealing with death and dying no matter how times you do it. With death comes great change. However,… Continue reading Everyone’s Story Will End…
New Year can bring renewed energy and hope for the year a head. We rush and make a list of New Year Resolutions that we struggle to keep and most probably slip back into the way things have always been. I know I have been guilty of that just like every other person I know.… Continue reading The Mess That Was 2023
Over the last few years my photography has slowly changed direction. I wrote about this in a previous post 'Grief and Photography'. Before, I only concentrated on the aesthetic of my subject, whereas I now want my photography to delve deeper and have meaning. Since January this year, I have been studying therapeutic photography. The… Continue reading Crash
Over the last few months, my photography has changed somewhat. For about seven years I concentrated on photographing old graveyards. I would purposely seek them out, travel to them to explore and take photographs. I thought this was my niche and would never change from that. However, the last few years has been increasingly difficult… Continue reading Grief and Photography
The nose is the main organ responsible for smell. Air enters the nose andpasses over the olfactory system allowing the brain to identify smells. People can detect at least one trillion different scents. Scent cells are renewed every30-60 days. Studies have concluded that people can smell fear and disgustthrough sweat. Women have a more developed… Continue reading Connect With Your Sense Of Smell
Touch Skin is your body’s largest organ and is in immediate contact with the world around you all the time. You can sense pressure, pain, temperature, and texture through touch. Simply put, touch is a stimulus that is detected through receptors in the skin. These signals travel along nerves in the skin that lead to… Continue reading Connect With Your Sense Of Touch
The Human Eye Your vision is deemed the most important sense you have. 80% of your impression of the world is conveyed through your eyes. If other senses fail, such as your hearing, you can still detect danger through your eyes. After your brain, your eyes are the second most complex organ in your body.… Continue reading Connect With Your Sight
The Human Ear The human ear is split into three sections: outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. The outer ear is the visible part of the ear. It collects sound waves and directs them down the funnel like ear canal to the ear drum. The ear drum is a flap of skin that vibrates… Continue reading Connect With Your Hearing
Our human senses (touch, taste, smell, sight and sound/hearing) allow us to navigate the world around us. We keep ourselves safe and make sense of our environments through our senses. Without them we are at a major disadvantage and susceptible to dangers without realising. For example, people with dementia sometimes can't feel if water is… Continue reading Connect With Your Senses
Photography can have many purposes: capturing holidays, celebrations, promotional purposes, reminiscing. All of which are very valid. How many times have people poured over old photo albums remembering times gone? I used to use photography like that. It was simply a way of freezing a time I would want to remember in the future. However,… Continue reading Stillness In Every Photo
Are you stressed the f**k out?! Stressed to the point it is affecting how you function? Stress is very present in our busy modern society. It is seen as ‘lazy’ to slow down or stop, even for a moment. Everything is go go Go GO GGGGOOOOO!!!! Don't get me wrong, a little stress can be… Continue reading Stressed The F**K Out?
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