Photo taken by contributor Sarah, a 21-year old student who has struggled with generalized anxiety for most of her life and panic attacks since the beginning of college. She has long used photography as a way to focus and calm herself during panic, as well as a spiritual practice. She is inspired by the work of Matthieu Ricard, a Tibetan monk who uses photography as a supplement to his meditation practice. Sarah is now considering pursuing photography as a profession after college.
About this photo: “I took this photo during the Polar Vortex in Minnesota when it was -18 degrees Fahrenheit. It was a difficult day, but I was still able to be present to the beauty of the feathery icicles on the window and capture this shot. No matter what’s going on in my life, I choose to be grateful and aware of the beauty around me.“
Find more from Sara at her photography site and her spiritual blog.
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Beautiful!
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Incredible!
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Fantastic photo 🙂
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Reblogged this on forgiveness for wanderers and commented:
I’m on Broken Light Collective again!
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The ice feathers made me think of birds, and of Asian painters’ renderings of birds in flight. Thank you.
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Wow, this is beautiful! The lighting really makes the picture!
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Reblogged this on C Gregory's Artwork.
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Fantastic texture; wonderfully done image. I love that it shows how even “broken light” can be beautiful.
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Fabulous! I love this. It looks like a flock of beautiful white birds taking off and flying in to the distance. This is an awesome capture.
Well done Sarah!
Sincerely,
eLPy
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Very moved by your photos and your story, Sarah, and inspired. I was brought up UU although now do not belong to any religion or church. I am an intensely spiritual person and I love writing and photography. At 50, I am considering how I want to use these media to communicate about my journey (past, present and future). Thank you. It’s nice to look over and see someone mirroring me. (I’m preparing to re-activate my blog so if you want you can follow it – I just followed yours (kbodhi).)
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This is beautiful – it made me think of a flock of white doves, flying up, up, up….. Then the delight of the surprise in seeing that it was actually frost on a windowpane…which somehow made it even more special! Lovely. Thank you for sharing it
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Lovely shot. I took one of the same subject last week when we had a similar freeze in the east.
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They looked like dead moths in a lake taking a glance at it first – I tend to see things differently. Lovely Photo, though really like it
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