100 Days of Mindful Photography — Starts Monday 2 February (and you can start any time)
Most photography advice treats your attention like a vending machine: insert inspiration, receive great images. Real life doesn’t work like that. Monday arrives, the sky is flat, the street is busy, your head is full, and the camera starts to feel like another thing you’re failing at.
This course is the opposite. It’s a quiet daily practice designed for the days that aren’t cinematic. One prompt. One small constraint. One photograph. Often one frame. Not to “produce content”, but to retrain perception until it steadies. You’re not chasing moments. You’re learning to notice what’s already happening.
It starts on Monday 2 February, but you can begin whenever you want. The work isn’t tied to a calendar. It’s tied to repetition.
Delivery format
Daily email to your inbox for 100 days
Every day includes:
1 Prompt Card (JPG + PDF) for use on your smartphone
Extended Notes for that day (PDF)
Everything is also available on the Soul Photography website here:
https://soulphotography.substack.com/s/start-here
Structure: 7 phases / 100 days
Phase 1 — Foundations of Seeing (Days 1–14)
Train perception. Establish the habits that make everything else workable.
What noticing is
How attention contracts and expands
Working with low stimulation
Distance, angle, timing
Constraints as a tool
Reading light as behaviour, not decoration
Slow walking as method
Recording without judging
Phase 2 — Mindful Photography + Mental Health (Days 15–28)
Use photography as a stabilising practice.
Regulating pace with the camera
Externalising anxious thought through observational tasks
Weather as grounding
Dawn and dusk as routines
Repetition as treatment
Seasonal mood shifts
What your environment does to you
Building a daily photographic anchor
Phase 3 — The Environment (Days 29–42)
Shift to ecological noticing.
Tracking small environmental change
Photographing effects, not symbols
Local ecosystems via micro-details
Weather systems as subjects
Human impact recorded quietly
Decay, renewal, slow processes
Photographing what will not last
Landscape as process, not scenery
Phase 4 — Landscape (Days 43–56)
Work with land without mythologising it.
Structure before colour
Landforms as grammar
Light as interpreter
Bad conditions as training
Horizon management
Trees as drawings
Water as movement
Clarity through limitation
Phase 5 — Street & Urban (Days 57–70)
Human weather: pace, density, unpredictability.
Movement as subject
Edges, thresholds, shadows
Silent observation in busy spaces
Photographing without performing
Human patterns
Architectural rhythm
Reflections and glass
Recording the unnoticed
Phase 6 — Travel (Days 71–84)
See without defaulting to tourist instinct.
Arrival discipline
Photographing before you understand a place
Unfamiliar light and pace
Contradictions, not clichés
Fragments of local life
Quiet moments
Transition
Leaving with less than you expect
Phase 7 — Integration (Days 85–100)
Combine everything into a self-sustaining practice.
A daily loop: attention, environment, self-regulation, place
Deciding what’s worth photographing
Long-term projects
Editing as mindful practice
Sequencing images to show change
Creating a personal field guide
Ethical presence
Ending with independence
Download option (from 29 January 2026) — £25
Includes:
Instruction PDF
7 Phase PDFs (one per subject area)
100 downloadable prompt cards (PDF + JPG)
Access to the 100 Days of Mindful Photography Course Chat on Substack
https://soulphotography.substack.com/s/start-here




Looking forward to this endeavor!
Hi Matthew,
Thank you for this.
Incidentally, your link is broken - the "e" which should be at the end of the link has been separated from the end of the link itself and printed below the "join now" photo.