Introduction

This is a reiteration of Sleeping Mind Photography-a blog I maintained for six years. It was an active site until 2020 at which time I decided to close it. I had lost my interest and had stopped even my irregular posting routine.

So what changed. I continued to write essays and self-published collections of my photographs in books. I will be posting some of this material over the coming months. I will also select some old posts that I thought were interesting and reissue them.

This blog is not about selling or promoting anything and is not a money-making venture. I will post a few images to help add some visual interest but the blog is not intended to be a gallery to promote my work. It will be about my observations, my experience, the psychology of photography, helpful hints, and perhaps a curmudgeon gripe or two. I may make mention of a piece of equipment but this is not a review site. The blog is solely an attempt by me to organize and record my thoughts. Perhaps a reader may find inspiration or motivation from my writing.

Welcome old and new readers.

Inspiration for the Blog Title

“The machinery for dreaming planted in the human brain was not planted for nothing. That faculty, in alliance with the mystery of darkness, is the one great tube through which man communicates with the shadowy. And the dreaming organ, in connection with the heart, the eye, and the ear, composes the magnificent apparatus which forces the infinite into the chambers of the human brain, and throws dark reflections from eternities below all life upon the mirrors of that mysterious camera obscura–the sleeping mind.” -Thomas De Quincey