Meditation masters
It was a lovely spring day, and I took advantage of it by coming here to the Brooklyn botanical gardens and capture the wonderful spring colors. As I passed the popular Rose garden I remembered the row of flowers the staff planted along side, that blooms every year.
This was the same flower bed that I practiced my auto focus skills on over a dozen years ago, back when I was still having so much frustration getting my D300 (my first auto focus DSLR) to auto focus on what I wanted when I wanted it to, that I did all the focusing manually as if it was one of my film camera's from 30 years ago. But there were so many shots I was missing out on that I couldn't ever get if I was going to rely on my manual focusing skills, that I decided to walk over to this self same flower bed and not leave until I consistently captured shots of the bed feeding on the flowers there. I did and got the nicest shots there than I've ever gotten since.
So not having tried getting a bee foraging shots there in several years now, I decided today was as good a day as any to go back , given most other locals around the grounds did not look as promising as the lighting I saw here.
After slowly working my way from one end to the other, I passed two gentlemen sitting on one of the benches enjoying the gardens, God's glorious sunshine, and each others company. One of them asked me about my equipment and what I was trying to capture as I passed by them. I showed him some of my pictures and he liked them so much, he decided to give me back something and gave me a free meditation session there in the park.
If your feeling stressed out and would like some meditation tips, you can always email Moshe Friedman at JewisMeditationNY@gmail.com and Moshie will help you too. After all these are stressful times, but the good Lord has many ways to get us through them. Maybe this one will work for you.
