Photo taken by 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 of 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 that 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 piece by a quotation that she hopes expresses something of the feeling that she was trying to convey visually.
About this photo: “This was probably the most exciting photoshoot I have had yet! We were staying in a pontoon cottage in Nantucket Harbour. The storm was amazing – it lasted two full battery-draining hours and I photographed every second of it. My cable release had broken just that day so I couldn’t use Bulb mode but was lucky enough to catch several strikes by shooting consecutive 30 second exposures. Amazing.
‘The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.‘ – Henri Cartier-Bresson”
Find more from Rachael at her website or her blog.
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