Up: [[Image]] Related: [[Photography]] Created: 2023-08-12 Updated: 2025-01-01 > [!Orbit] Christine Valters Paintner in *Eyes of the Heart* > Rather than ‘taking’ photos or ‘shooting’ them or even ‘making’ photos, we will practice ‘receiving’ images as gift. The traditional words for photography are possessive and aggressive. Yet the actual mechanism of photography is that light is reflected off of a subject and *received* by the camera through the lens opening. We can create conditions for a ‘good’ photo, but ultimately we must stand in a posture of receiving and see what actually shows up in the image. (p. 30) This reminds me of [[Flow]], the idea that you can create the conditions for it but can’t control the outcome. And it makes me think of inner [[Image]]s as well. We don’t manufacture those, we receive them from the unconscious.