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Click!: Choosing Love... One Frame at a Time
Wisdom, light and truth are revealed by renowned portrait photographer Carl Studna. Collected stories and his exquisite photographs of icons Paul McCartney, Elton John, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Michael Bernard Beckwith, George Harrison and more, show us how to create loving, purposeful and heart-centered choices throughout each moment (the “click”) of our life experience.
INCLUDES SHORT STORIES BY : Tom Robbins, Kathleen McGowan, Ram Dass, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Kenny Loggins, Cynthia James and others. Foreword by Michael Bernard Beckwith.
Studna uses the familiar example of having our picture taken as the ultimate barometer of where our attention is being placed in each moment of the CLICK – that essential choice point. This book is a masterful blend of the author’s own personal stories with vulnerable, engaging essays from respected guest authors. Studna’s tools, practices and his guest authors inspire us to create loving, purposeful and heart-centered choices throughout each moment of our life experience.
INCLUDES SHORT STORIES BY : Tom Robbins, Kathleen McGowan, Ram Dass, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Kenny Loggins, Cynthia James and others. Foreword by Michael Bernard Beckwith.
Studna uses the familiar example of having our picture taken as the ultimate barometer of where our attention is being placed in each moment of the CLICK – that essential choice point. This book is a masterful blend of the author’s own personal stories with vulnerable, engaging essays from respected guest authors. Studna’s tools, practices and his guest authors inspire us to create loving, purposeful and heart-centered choices throughout each moment of our life experience.
204 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2012
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About the author
Carl Studna
7 books8 followersCarl Studna is a multi-faceted photographer, inspirational speaker, teacher and author. Carl’s intimate portraits of influential people ranging from Sir Paul McCartney to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, are published and known worldwide. Studna’s innovative work, the LuminEssence Method©, teaches a new paradigm for radiating the light that resides within, revealing each person’s authentic gifts. Carl is the author of the award winning book, CLICK! Choosing Love, One Frame at a Time, and his new release, Evolution of Loving. Carl’s life’s work is dedicated to inspiring us to rest in the pure awareness of our illumined path, both in front of the camera and behind it, but mostly, in our individual lives. Carl is a member of the esteemed Transformational Leadership Council and travels the world documenting beauty through diversity.
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March 26, 2023
Beautifully written and insightful.
March 29, 2013
It’s been said the two biggest fears people have are of death and public speaking. There’s a third one high on the list for many: having your picture taken! Professional photographer Carl Studna addresses this fear and much more in his engaging new book “Click! Choosing Love One Frame at a Time”
“I do hate getting my picture taken. It’s so damned exhausting,” writes singer Kenny Loggins in one chapter. “Click” contains short stories from the famous and not so famous expressing similar feelings about appearing in front of a camera. “I have always HATED having my picture taken,” says musician Karen Drucker in another chapter. I liked reading these stories as they gave me comfort to know my own hesitancy of being photographed is a fear shared by many others.
The true value of “Click”, though, is in Studna’s wise words on why we feel uncomfortable being photographed. He relates how our feelings about getting our pictures taken are reflections of how we show up in life. “What would it be like to be in front of a camera and fully embody the present moment?” Studna writes. “Can you imagine how powerful an experience that would be? Every picture would be a true reflection of your multidimensional, magnificent self!”
Ever since Eckhardt Tolle’s “A New Earth” was published there has been much written about “living in the present moment”. Studna delivers a similar teaching in an innovative and entertaining way. He relates different stories of people he has photographed, followed by his thoughts on human nature. “I continually witness a large percentage of folks who find it painful viewing pictures of themselves,” the author writes. “Their inner critic seems to be easily triggered along with all past conditioning related to self-image that needs to be healed.” I was so engrossed with Studna’s stories and observations that I read his entire book in two days!
“Click” also contains samples of Studna’s photographs. The hardback is printed on a glossy type of paper, different than most other books I’ve read, which makes these striking images come to life. I appreciated that Studna included pictures he had taken of different celebrities along with the stories of these encounters (with ex-Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison, for example). I wished “Click” had even more photos, as some chapters (like the stories of Kenny Loggins and Karen Drucker) were words only without pictures of the subjects to go along with them.
“I suspect the day I am truly at peace with the camera, I will be well on the road to self-realization, at ease with however I am seen, with or without a camera,” says Kenny Loggins in the first few pages of the book. “And perhaps, in this way, future photo sessions will become my signposts on my road to freedom,” he adds.
“Click” invoked similar feelings in me. To take why I am uncomfortable being photographed as a sign that I have more healing to do. To be gentle with my seeming imperfections. “We are all perfect and whole at our core, regardless of physical appearances,” Studna writes. “Click” reminded me of that fact, even though at times I have a hard time believing it.
This is another book review in my partnership with Hay House. I was not financially compensated for this post. I received the book from Hay House for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.
“I do hate getting my picture taken. It’s so damned exhausting,” writes singer Kenny Loggins in one chapter. “Click” contains short stories from the famous and not so famous expressing similar feelings about appearing in front of a camera. “I have always HATED having my picture taken,” says musician Karen Drucker in another chapter. I liked reading these stories as they gave me comfort to know my own hesitancy of being photographed is a fear shared by many others.
The true value of “Click”, though, is in Studna’s wise words on why we feel uncomfortable being photographed. He relates how our feelings about getting our pictures taken are reflections of how we show up in life. “What would it be like to be in front of a camera and fully embody the present moment?” Studna writes. “Can you imagine how powerful an experience that would be? Every picture would be a true reflection of your multidimensional, magnificent self!”
Ever since Eckhardt Tolle’s “A New Earth” was published there has been much written about “living in the present moment”. Studna delivers a similar teaching in an innovative and entertaining way. He relates different stories of people he has photographed, followed by his thoughts on human nature. “I continually witness a large percentage of folks who find it painful viewing pictures of themselves,” the author writes. “Their inner critic seems to be easily triggered along with all past conditioning related to self-image that needs to be healed.” I was so engrossed with Studna’s stories and observations that I read his entire book in two days!
“Click” also contains samples of Studna’s photographs. The hardback is printed on a glossy type of paper, different than most other books I’ve read, which makes these striking images come to life. I appreciated that Studna included pictures he had taken of different celebrities along with the stories of these encounters (with ex-Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison, for example). I wished “Click” had even more photos, as some chapters (like the stories of Kenny Loggins and Karen Drucker) were words only without pictures of the subjects to go along with them.
“I suspect the day I am truly at peace with the camera, I will be well on the road to self-realization, at ease with however I am seen, with or without a camera,” says Kenny Loggins in the first few pages of the book. “And perhaps, in this way, future photo sessions will become my signposts on my road to freedom,” he adds.
“Click” invoked similar feelings in me. To take why I am uncomfortable being photographed as a sign that I have more healing to do. To be gentle with my seeming imperfections. “We are all perfect and whole at our core, regardless of physical appearances,” Studna writes. “Click” reminded me of that fact, even though at times I have a hard time believing it.
This is another book review in my partnership with Hay House. I was not financially compensated for this post. I received the book from Hay House for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.
January 3, 2013
“My objective in writing this books is using this unique medium, photography, to serve as an opportunity to reflect” is how Carl Studna starts “Click”, his book, which fully explores how photography is not just pushing a button on the camera or getting people to smile .
Studna’s insight into ‘the click’ being an experience of a greater magnitude of picture-taking is authentic and inspiring. Even though one may not completely agree with Studna’s religious philosophy throughout the project, his pictures speak for themselves.
“Being in front of a camera is a method for receiving instant feedback on where our thoughts are being placed” ---“Click” by Carl Studna
“Click” is an adventure into fully understanding the idea behind a photo be more than just ‘capturing a shot’ but the love the subject.
Studna’s insight into ‘the click’ being an experience of a greater magnitude of picture-taking is authentic and inspiring. Even though one may not completely agree with Studna’s religious philosophy throughout the project, his pictures speak for themselves.
“Being in front of a camera is a method for receiving instant feedback on where our thoughts are being placed” ---“Click” by Carl Studna
“Click” is an adventure into fully understanding the idea behind a photo be more than just ‘capturing a shot’ but the love the subject.
June 9, 2013
A wonderful birthday gift and book from my dear friend, Diane. Thank you for thinking of me. :-)
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