Sound photography is not a profession, but it is a wonderful micro-exercise with which you can quickly get back into your balance.
And in two respects.
On the one hand, the exercise, like all mindfulness exercises, brings you back to the present moment very quickly.
And since stress usually results from the worried thoughts we have about the future, the exercise reliably gets you out of the stress.
At the same time, the exercise trains "thinking outside the box" – thinking outside the usual paths. And this is often an important prerequisite for finding solutions to problems that would otherwise throw you off balance.
And by the way, the exercise is also a lot of fun!
This is how it works:
Take your camera phone with you on your next trip or - if you prefer to "digitally detox" - cut a passe-partout out of cardboard that can serve as a camera replacement.
And then you go there and try to photograph a sound that you hear and that you find beautiful.
Huh?
Exactly, you have to get a little creative for that. How can you capture the sound of the wind in the trees in a photograph?
How can the birdsong be depicted? Not the bird, mind you, but its song!
A little tip: Try to think abstractly, to represent the sound symbolically or to show its effect.
Maybe you already have some ideas? If not, here are a few suggestions:
- The slightly blurred photo of a treetop could represent the rustling of leaves in the wind
- The reflection of a landscape in a puddle, the surface of which is not smooth but somewhat rippled, could stand for the splashing of the raindrops of a summer rain
- The play of sunlight in a treetop could represent the playful melody of a birdsong
- The feather of a buzzard photographed on the forest floor in front of a blue sky could represent the call of the buzzard
And of course, you can also work with objects from nature to photograph "your" sound, for example by using spruce cones and small branches to form notes that represent the singing of a bird.
Let your imagination run wild – that's exactly what this exercise is all about!
And if she can't think of anything at all, then maybe the Exercise "Invisibility Spells" something for you, which you can also find here in the Daily Flow exercises.
It's about photographing something you can't see. And these are not just sounds.