Letting light lead

Sometimes I like to do the exact opposite of what is considered good photography technique—which is to not use a tripod for precise focus, open the aperture as wide as it will go and let the light flood in via a long exposure.

This process then becomes a dance with light that allows an image to unfold very organically. Sometimes it works. Sometimes, well, it's just interesting—a playful experiment.

My home yoga practice is very much like this. In teaching yoga, I stick pretty close to the principles of sequencing a class (depending on who I am teaching to...). But, my personal practice is a process much like the one above. It's a time to set aside the "right" or "wrong" or even just a recommended way of doing something and just see how it all plays out.

What a nice shift I find this to be in a world full of regulations, rules and too much right or wrong.