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There are three ways that we can interact with the healing power of nature.   The first way can be through "indirect" interaction.  The second way is through"incidental" interaction, and the third way is through "intentional" interaction. When we perhaps have a plant on the dining table or corner of a room, which we enjoy and water it and maybe even talk to it, or have some favourite photos of a holiday by the sea, or up a mountain these are examples of "indirect" interaction with nature.




The second way we can interact with nature is through "incidental" interaction, perhaps when out for a run, or biking, or for a walk, or just looking out a window, when we see a beautiful sunset, or sunrise, or a tree in full autumn colour, or a beautiful flower, and it literally stops us in our tracks to pause and take delight in natures beauty.

The third way of interacting with nature is through "intentional" interaction, and the list is possibly unlimited and ranges from sitting on a favourite bench in the park, walking through the woods, or gardening, fishing, hiking, biking, or, my personal preferred way of "intentional" interaction through my passion of running through the four seasons.


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 "Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what 
you photograph." ~ André Kertész


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Practice Ecotherapy.  Embrace Nature.  Nature has a power to heal. Sunshine is life-giving, it warms the heart and feeds the soul. Rain is refreshing and cleansing, and we can be carried on the wings of the Wind and Snow is exhilarating, reminding us of the purity of the Divine.  As someone once noted, "There's really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. 
~ Aaron Siskind ~


"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful:  
they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."
  ~  Luther Burbank



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