prajna45's photostream  

I don't think when I am taking pictures, which is a relief for someone who thinks an awful lot the rest of the time. On some level I suppose I am framing and angling, etc, but mostly I look and I shoot and then I wait to see what kind of surprises show up on my monitor.

Lots of them go right to the trash, but there are always those few that just dazzle me when I see them for the first time. The ability to be profligate is one of the beauties of digital photography to me. Another is the 'gap'; in meditation, we look for the gap between thoughts as the true nature of reality, and in digital camera work it is the gap between the finger on the shutter release and the actual recording of the image that reveals the truth about whatever I am shooting.

It is only when I see it on my screen that I can actually identify the elements of the composition which I simply 'saw' initially. I sometimes crop, but otherwise I pretty much let things be.

One of the issues with digital is of course the limitations of computer display; no monitor will ever display an image with the same clarity as film printed on paper, and the variations between monitors mean that no two of us are seeing exactly the same picture exactly the same way, but that, again, is part of the beauty of the whole process.