Photo taken by first-time contributor Rachael Talibart, a photographer based in Surrey, England. She has always enjoyed photography, but when she started to suffer chronic pain it became more than a hobby/occupation. Taking photographs became a way for her to cope with her pain. She used it as a mindfulness tool, a way of focusing on the now, and on things outside herself instead of pain or other troubles. When she is taking a picture, she is thinking only of what she is seeing and making. This allows her to notice things she might otherwise have missed, and those things not only distract from pain but lead to other things, and so the creativity snowballs. When she is not making images, she is a student of literature, and has just completed her MA. Thus she has found herself wanting to put words to her images. She accompanies each by a quotation that she hopes expresses something of the feeling that she was trying to convey visually.
About this photo: “A lonely figure walks towards a misty horizon. Taken at Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset.
‘A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.’ ~Tahir Shah”
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Fantastic image!!
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Beautiful! Best wishes, Georgia x
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Beautiful Photography. Really enjoy the added bio about the artist.
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This has a surreal quality to it, almost like the person is walking to infinity, and beyond!
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Really lovely image. I too have serious chronic pain and try to use mindfulness to cope. Photog is a great way of bringing the mind to focus. Again, love the photo.
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Gorgeous image! Photographic therapy,always a good positive thing 🙂
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Captivating!
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Totally agree about the wonderful distractions that photography has to offer.
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Stunning image. Great to see how photography can help in different ways
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This beautiful and emotional at the same time. Great work
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So glad you like it. It was a very special evening when I took this image. Just me, the waves, and the mist. And a very handy solitary walker.
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Reblogged this on Oyia Brown.
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Evocative image and wonderful quote.
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I love the photograph and what you’re doing with your photography to help yourself! . . .
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wonderful image!
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O I love the feeling of being on the edge that this image presents. We have been there. thanx, nice work…en theos..jim
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love this
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love photos like this one. Excellent!
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