The Surf Sister Blog
A Photographic Gratitude Experiment
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Have you heard that being grateful can make you happier? I certainly have. Everyone from Deepak Chopra and Oprah to researchers at the University of California are claiming that gratitude can change your life.
These researchers found that gratitude resulted, not only in increased happiness, but also in a stronger immune system, better sleep, lower blood pressure and feeling more forgiving, outgoing, generous, compassionate, alert and alive. Not a bad for a small shift in focus.
Want to find out if it works for you?
Join me (and loads of others from all over the world) in a photographic gratitude experiment this November. What ever your camera of choice (I'll be setting aside my DSLR for the month and picking up my iPhone), come November, fire it up and start photographing the things that make you the most grateful. There's a capturing gratitude facebook group to share your photos, and a gratitude list, to share your blog or website if you're posting your photos elsewhere.
I hope you'll join me.
You can read about my personal journey with gratitude here.
To sign up and to download a free gratitude meditation, visit www.capturinggratitude.com.
Words by Lauren Tober
Dr. Lauren Tober in the Byron Shire
Lauren is a yogi, clinical psychologist, photographer and beach lover (and loves to bring these passions together). After spending years travelling the world studying and teaching, you can now find her living and teaching in the Byron Shire and online.
Single Fin Photography: Getting Away From the Crowd
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Rebecca Law in Mangawhai Heads,NZ.
Bex learnt to surf while living in Mount Maunganui and a creative flare and outgoing personality got her a job as a photographer for a local newspaper, she did a lot of freelance photography work before completing a Bachelor of media arts at the Waikato Institute of technology with a double major in graphic design and photography.
www.singlefin.co.nz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +64 21 058 9526
Bluesphere Photography: Surfing Together
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Shelli Bankier of Bluesphere Photography based in Burleigh
My photographic work of the Ocean steps away from commercial surf photography. With my photography I aim to capture those beautiful moments that we experience out in the ocean, those moments that give peace to your heart and beauty to your soul. I have always felt a strong affinity and passionate love for the Ocean, of the beauty and freedom that the Ocean so inspires...
Surfing Possibility: India and Bangladesh's First Surfer Girls
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My name is Farhana Huq and I am a surfer here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I wanted to write to you about a really cool project I just launched through Brown Girl Surf.
This November and December, on behalf of Brown Girl Surf, I will be traveling to India and Bangladesh, my parent’s birth countries, to meet women and girls who have taken huge risks against big societal barriers to do the very thing we love to do – surf! I will be working with Storytellers for Good to produce a series of short documentary profiles, photographs and writings on the lives of the first female surfers in a country like Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations in the world.
I put together this Indiegogo campaign together with my friend Cara, from Storytellers for Good. It’s a short video about the project that I hope you’ll watch. I wanted to ask if you could help spread the word about this project by doing a post on it and/or spreading the word through social media. Here is the Indiegogo link with the full campaign and video:
www.browngirlsurf.com
SURFING POSSIBILITY TRAILER from Storytellers For Good on Vimeo.
Single Fin Photography: Line Up
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Rebecca Law in Mangawhai Heads,NZ.
Bex learnt to surf while living in Mount Maunganui and a creative flare and outgoing personality got her a job as a photographer for a local newspaper, she did a lot of freelance photography work before completing a Bachelor of media arts at the Waikato Institute of technology with a double major in graphic design and photography.
www.singlefin.co.nz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +64 21 058 9526
