Guiding you to heal, grow and flourish. Kim is a transformational photographer based in Scotland who brings photography, nature and wellness together to create engaging content and resources to guide you forwards on your photographic journey.
Hi Kim, What an amazing video! Your approach to photography and life are unique and fascinating. I also want to say thank you for the meditation you've created. I find it incredible. It transcends the realm of photography, extending into wellness, spirituality, and mental health in a gentle and natural way, which I find very attractive. I'm not a photographer and use your meditation to ground and center myself. It also helps me fall asleep. Your voice has a healing and nurturing tone that takes me into such deep relaxation that I inevitably drift off. I believe it's your voice and its amazing properties that make this meditation so unique, potent, and healing for me. I hope to see more of your meditations and similar materials with your magical voice. Maybe even something that would help people struggling with anxiety and insomnia? Thank you!
Wow - the images as we went further into the video just came alive to a whole new little world that we could easily gloss over. I often myself touching different parts of the bush as I wander along a path. Paying attention to the whole as I go. If it's raining I'll often walk without anything on my head, because a hat or hood, just seems to limit how I sense the world around me as I go. I miss hearing, feeling it as energy fully about me. There's something about how it speaks and reaches me when I'm attentive to it. Thanks for sharing and the encouragement to reach out and touch, notice and connect in an embodying way.
Hi Kim. This afternoon, I was looking at a grassed area that can be viewed from my kitchen widow. This area has been left uncut by the local council. In the wind, the seed heads looked like wheat sheaves as they danced to and fro. I took the opportunity to capture a sense of the movement . The clover made an ideal out of focus backdrop. The strange thing is, I found I had to touch the grass to feel the movement. some hrs. Later, I sat down to watch your video on touching your subject. Coincidence or what! Big fan. love your work❤
I often visit there on my motorbike which can be a bit challenging, especially on windy days. You are so right though, it does have that very peaceful and relaxing atmosphere. What it would be like during the storms we get now will never be something I will experience.
hi kim iv been watching your vidios for some time ,your approach to life and photography is realy refreshing i was thinking of telling my story and how my photography made me ill and now helps me with mental health problems annyway kind regards Richie,
well its pretty long .and for sure verry frighting at the time ,i do remember you in conversation with a lady a while back and my illness was at its worst then ,i thought maybe i will do that if i get a little better, thanks for responding kim,
I just happened across your channel today after several months of gradually deteriorating health which also caused me deep depression. By good fortune and in spite of a dearth of help from medical professionals (not their fault), I managed to self diagnose my ill health and am now almost recovered. However, this alternative observational video greatly inspired me and resolved me to get out doors and start taking photos again. Many thanks. Subscribed.
Kim , what a beautiful video! So much to experience in this world- and so many beautiful ways to engage with it all. Thank you for sharing this holistic approach to our photography practice-
Good Morning Kim, great video,, nature is amazing, all we need is to stop and see it, or feel it. So much of life is put on everything but experiencing LIFE. There is a process called the Butterfly Effect, as the butterfly moves the air by it's winds, the air moves on and on, when something or someone, does something, that affects others, or something, I thought about that watching your videos, you talk and share information, to others, then they act or share with others, and it goes on and on. Thank you for posting this video. Have a blessed upcoming week.
Thank you for reminding me of the butterfly effect and for kindly connecting the term with my videos. It's lovely to hear you feel this way and see this in what I create 😊🙏✨️
You touching the stones and all the barnacles really opened up my eyes. I will definitely be getting more connected with my subjects too. I often touch the grasses and sand I am photographing, but all too often I find myself rushing by a scene after taking a photo. Thanks for the video!
I am enjoying your videos Kim. I think you would embrace Lensbaby lenses. They are fine art lenses that embrace artistic photography. I am not by any means a lensbaby ambassader. bit I feel that Lensbaby Lenses are a good fit for what you like to do. Cheers, Ann.
Good morning Kim. That was amazing and my week is complete now lol. We all need to slow down and learn from nature. Love this quote.....To touch is to experience , but to feel is to live. Hope you have a wonderful day today.
Simply wonderful! I find myself wondering barefoot while enjoying a bit of photography more than not. I'll have to try the touch method as well when I go out for some macrophotography. Thanks Kim! I'm glad to see that you are doing well!
It's been about a year since I've watched one of your video's. I started watching this and was thinking how great your voice sounds (I work for an audiobook production company) and then you mentioned you are writing a book. I hope you do the narration. It'll sound great. Thanks for the great video.
These last couple of videos have been just wonderful, Kim! As someone who has dealt with depression on and off over the years, nature photography has been one of the best things I've ever found. There's a never-ending supply of wonderful things to find in every little patch of grass. thank you for your channel and the approach to photography that you share on it!
Hello Kim, such a lovely video, thank you. I have continuing mental health and physical health problems and there have been many times when I despaired and wondering if this is all going to pass and I'll eventually come out the other side. It's my photography that has kept me going and for a while I can immerse myself in being out in the country with my camera, no matter what the weather; it makes me feel more alive. It would be so easy to tire out and just give in and there have been times when I've felt this way. So, I go up to the attic and edit some of my photographs and before long those creative moments lift my spirits and I remember clearly what the day was like when I took a photograph. It is so different when you see your own work because it becomes personal, just for you, that special moment and it can't help but add to your life. My camera is here in the livingroom, in its bag, keeking round the corner of the couch having a rest from this afternoon and possibly hoping it's not going to get pelted with rain again tomorrow like a few weeks ago when we had a thunderstorm in Sheffield and the rain drops glistened everywhere, tearing through the air and making everything shine; that was quite a storm and I wouldn't have missed it for anything. The natural world is wonderful, I just wish it hadn't taken me so long to discover it.
For me I have (along with questions of why we are here in the manner with which we are here) often wondered why we love nature. And one answer maybe in understanding the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ration present in much of what we find beautiful - but then I wonder if that insinuates something else.....ponder that one :)
I was there for a few hours a couple of months ago and I have to say it is one of the shabbiest places I’ve ever been to in Scotland … and that’s saying something. Needs a huge amount of money spent on it.
The magic for me is Sunlight. Without sunlight things can seem flat and lifeless, those things you talk of are all enhanced by sunlight and all gain an extra dimension, even people how much better you feel when the light & warmth of sunshine is on your skin. As I sit here the wind gusting a blanket of cloud covering the sky a bit of sunshine would make it all more bearable 🤗 Enjoyed your video 😌
Hi Kim! It's probably drifting off the subject a bit, but you mentioned something about visiting the same place time after time. I often get a bit frustrated when doing this, but then I have to console myself by thinking " Well, I might've taken very similar photos in this location, but NOT today. Today is a new day, and things will be different. You asked what really lights us up and connects us to that inner child. With me it's definitely flowers. I love photographing flowers!
