by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 7, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Meditation, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness
My favorite place during meditation is the space between breaths. When you sit in silence, even the breath can sound loud. The space between breaths is utterly still, but somehow deeply expansive as well. It reminds me of being on a swing, when you reach the highest...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 11, 2017 | Mindful Photography, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness, Photography
Greetings, friends! Since giving you a sneak peek of my Damselwings Photography online shop a while back, I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make it ready for prime time. Though still a work in progress, the site is already having a positive impact on...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 19, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Breast Cancer, Mindful Photography
This week’s post is a reprint of a piece I wrote last October, updated to reflect the means by which I plan to support METAvivor.org in 2017. Breast cancer hasn’t gone away, nor has the blind commercialism of Pink October. METAvivor.org continues to use...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 13, 2017 | Mindful Photography, Photography
How do you like my newest photography award winner, Hibiscus Abstract Sepia? When I was notified a couple of weeks ago that my entry had won the “Abstracts of Nature” category in the 2017 Annual Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Photography Competition, I thought...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 31, 2017 | Mindful Photography, Motivation, Photography
This past Saturday, I stood in Wheaton, Maryland’s Brookside Gardens waiting to take butterfly photographs. Joy flooded through me to such an extent that I was almost moved to tears. Though it was only 7:00 in the morning, hummingbirds and bumble bees were...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 28, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Mindful Photography, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness, Photography
Earlier this week I took myself on an artist date and visited Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Washington, D.C. I was on the hunt for water lily and lotus blossom photographs, since I can’t grow these meditative flowers in my own garden. One of the lessons I...
