The thing about balance

These days I'm finding there is a few ways to look at balance.

Balancing on a tightrope is much easier when you take it slow and steady. It's safer that way and you avoid the dangers of any false moves. Although it's been said that there is always that safety net (just in case) it's not instinctual to welcome the fall.

Balancing on solid ground can be just as easy humming along at a faster pace, allowing the speed to take the wobbles out. Over the summer as my daughter was mastering bike riding, the more cautious she was, the harder it was for her to keep her balance. Her instinct of course, was not to speed it up but when she did she had the opportunity to feel her balance.

Perhaps each of us has our own methods for maintaining the balancing act. Maybe it's not a one size fits all kind of proposition. In my case, I'm always falling off the bike, so to speak, and I just keep getting back up. It's all a part of embracing my imperfection I guess. There's not one way to do it and there's no way of not falling. I think it' pretty much universal, wouldn't you say?

Today, I encourage you to find your balance. Share in an image, your thoughts, your methods to achieving balance or how you observe the world around you doing the same.

Comments

[Marcie]

I like to think of balance as the ability to bend and sway and blow with the wind..while still remaining rooted:
http://marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=1320

[Trude]

I'm a Libra (birthday was yesterday) and my sign is the scales, and it's funny how much the question of balance comes into my life. Not just in scheduling and juggling friends/family/boyfriend, but even in food choices and music loves. I definitely agree there's no way of not falling, because we're human and it's going to happen. But I've found, for me, that going with my moods and inspirations really works. Trying to force it doesn't. Granted, sometimes you have to, but on those nights I come home from work and really don't feel like editing, I don't force it. Because it always turns out better when I'm mentally ready to do what I need to. Same goes for cleaning and organizing and pretty much everything else! :)

[michel]

My balance is found in asymmetry most times. to me a shot looks odd if it is in perfect "balance" I tend to find balance in the imbalance of a shot I suppose.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelfeist/4956448465/
http://www.wishfulthinkingblog.com/wishful-thinking/2010/9/5/to-the-left-to-the-left.html

[Suki]

I found my balance while playing with leaves today. It such a good idea to remember the joy's of my childhood.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suki_fotografiert/5059624145/

[Jennifer]

I'd rather not point out all the symbolism I see in the photo, but balance sums it up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cardboardsea/4981607582/

[cigi]

I find my balance in walking and hiking. Enough time spent exercising and outside in nature and everything else seems to fall into place: http://instamaticgratification.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/258365-2/

[AnnGeeDee]

Things have been really busy and crazy the past few months with lots of changes and new routines and on and on and on. I find my balance by in my better half. He keeps me from falling while balancing so many things himself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anngeedee/4842802594/

[sarah]

for me, balance in my photos is something I feel at an instinctive heart level and has nothing to do with how the image is located within the frame. I usually avoid taking pictures that are perfectly, properly balanced.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shorelinesphotography/5060280119/

[Dotti]

Balance is everything. While visiting the World Equestrian Games yesterday in Lexington, KY, my 3-year old granddaughter was so thoroughly impressed with the vaulting event (or 'nastics on a horse, as she called it) that she had to try it out. This is not a real horse, but a saddle mounted on a whiskey barrel. (It is Kentucky, y'all!)

[Dotti]

Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48337138@N04/5060720607/
(Sorry . . . it's late!)

[Stephanie]

I just started my new job (my first as a real lawyer!) and I'm having a hard time finding balance. I know it'll work out. It's only been 4 days. Ironically, this lack of balance has caused me to neglect my blog, which happens to be all about finding balance! http://bigmariolife.blogspot.com/

[Patricia Davidson]

It's difficult to find balance in ones day to day life. Thanks for sharing this blog post. I think one must look for balance each day or we will get burnt out. I work full time as web designer and started my little side photography business. It's tough to find the time to do the things I need to do, plus balance my home life. I find joy in my photography. Getting out and taking photos calms me down and gets my thoughts in order.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pddesigns/5059287648/in/photostream/#/photos/pddesigns/5059287648/in/photostream/lightbox/

[Miriam Hall]

If I feel open, then I am balanced. I can't be open and off balance at the same time. Amazing writing or photos find me when I am balanced, whether or not they "look it" - this one happens to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herspiral/5063012799/