Welcome to "Capture the Positive" I hope you find the following interesting whether you are a photographer by profession a happy snapper or perhaps you enjoy looking at images created by others. Through the use of articles and comment from photographers I have met along along my journey and experiences of my own I hope to explain and express how photography can make us feel. As a health professional I have been used to writing from an evidence base, I hope this blog will become less formal than that, but as I have found much health research from many quarters that supports what I am trying to say, I will quote some from time to time for reading if you want to click the links.
In my past, I have much experience of how "Occupational Therapies" ( I am not a lover of this term) can, if carefully tailored, be of great value to clients (not a lover of this term either!) well-being when people have experienced illness.I now believe very strongly that approaching photography in a therapeutic way helps us stay well, feel good about ourselves and "Capture the Positive" of life and beauty around us. Whether that beauty is found in a landscape, seascape, flower, insect, building, photogenic model or other subject that inspires, capturing this, I think, allows us to re-experience, a double take, a double whammy!
I have already asked several photographers for their thoughts and have been very moved by their responses, I hope to include these personal reflections in the following posts and invite you to send me posts that express what positive feelings and experiences photography has given you. If you would like contribute, please email me at capturethepositive@awayofseeing.org.uk with your message, a link to your work or send me an image you have enjoyed creating and let everyone know how that made you feel!
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