Calm Photography Exercises

Exercises to Slow Down Your Way of Seeing

These exercises are not lessons.
They are small invitations —
to slow down and notice.

There is no goal to complete.
No level to reach.

You can do one exercise and stop.
Or return days later.

Take your time.

Exercise 01 — Noticing One Place

A simple exercise to begin slowing down your way of seeing.
→ Your First Calm Photography Exercise

Exercise 02 — Staying With What Is Familiar

An exercise about patience, repetition, and attention over time.
→ Your Second Calm Photography Exercise

Exercise 03 — Slowing the First Look

A simple exercise about pausing before judgment and staying with the first moment.
→ Slowing the First Look

Exercise 04 — Photographing Without Choosing

An exercise about suspending judgment and allowing things to exist before deciding.
→ Photographing Without Choosing

Exercise 05 — Returning to the Same Image

An exercise about revisiting one image without trying to improve it.
→ Returning to the Same Image

Exercise 06 — Staying With One Frame

An exercise about resisting the urge to move on too quickly.
→ Staying With One Frame

Exercise 07 — Letting the Image Be Incomplete

An exercise about accepting unfinished seeing.
→ Letting the Image Be Incomplete

Exercise 08 — Ending Without Closure

An exercise about stopping without resolution or explanation.
→ Ending Without Closure

More exercises will be added slowly, when they are ready.