Very early last Sunday Morning, my wife Zeina and I ventured into the valley with my sister Nada, a professional photographer, who wanted to take some photos of the goats and of the wheat harvesting for a project she was working on.
The weather was fantastic; the sky crystal blue, the light of sunrise, was just good enough to provide the ample luminosity needed to create photos and the heat from sun sufficient to keep neither cold nor warm just chilled.
While I was contemplating the photographer in action, I got confused if she was shooting or taking pictures. She was like in a gun shooting position except that the camera replaced the pistol.
The first shooting was to focus on the distinctive raisin grape. The second goats shooting was a continuous focus interlinking the cheese, the nature, the brown and yellow colors of ground, the majestic blue of the sky above, and the goats. The third shooting was a synchronized focus on the wheat harvesting, the wheat bags, the wheat field, the machines, and the farmers. The fourth shooting was the focus on picturesque sunflower, then the focus on unusual purple lettuce. Finally, the focus shifted 360-degree to include us.
The more she focused, the more she was disappearing and being engaged with the substance of her photos. I do not remember speaking and even looking at each other’s; her entire energy was focusing on the lens, the cameras, and her privilege and sacred target.
On every scene she shot, on every focus, she intended her photos to be an expression of full attention, concentration, dedication, and appreciation.
We usually focus on the things that interest us; however, when we allow the focus to happen first, then we become interested in anything.
Focus triggers imagination, focus stimulates curiosity, focus sets priority, and focus generates vision.
When we focus, we are present; we do not get lost in the daily blur, focus helps us to not get confused and distracted into urgency instead of focus help us to recognize what is significant.
How many focuses are you willing to select every day, the more you focus, the more your life will become rich, abundant, and appreciative.
While Nada was shooting and focusing, I was observing and shooting the phenomenal shooting positions that helped to remember the importance of staying focus.
Give a chance for life to unfold and reveal itself to you, focus and observe and do not be too busy to live life.
Thank you, Nada, for allowing this captured day to become my special focus.
When were you last focus? What did you learn from it?
When are you the most creative?
How often is curiosity stimulated? When were you curious lately?
