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Step Two: Engage edging that one cannot control or determine how
the viewer will respond to what we have experi-
Engagement involves a radical detachment from enced.
everything and everyone except that which has
taken hold of one’s attention. For that moment, Step Four: Create
there is nothing else to look at, nothing else upon
which to focus. And nothing exists beyond this This is the moment when the shutter is pressed.
moment and this place. At that instant, the moment is over, held forever,
unalterable and fixed. It belongs to the past, how-
Step Three: Respond ever much it continues to be present to us in the
image to which we have given birth.
Responding to the world involves honesty, open-
ness and vulnerability. One must be open to the Step Five: Detach
world in order to respond to its disclosure. To
receive that disclosure one must also be honest To detach os to let go. If we do not detach, we
about what one is experiencing and feeling. remain in the past with the moment that is now
gone. We block the next moment from entering
To be open and honest is also to be vulnerable - into our experience. We close ourselves to the
vulnerable to a range of emotion one might oth- disclosure of the world.
erwise prefer not to experience, or, vulnerable to
joy and pain and sadness and beauty....
But most of all, being vulnerable means acknowl-
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