I almost didn't do this.
The Story
For years I had a camera roll full of photographs that nobody saw. Black and white shots taken on my iPhone while walking somewhere, waiting somewhere, or just standing still long enough to notice something happening in the air above me.
I kept taking them because I couldn’t not. But I didn't think of them as anything. They were just what happened when I paid attention.
Then people started asking about them. 'What's that one?' ‘You have a great eye’ And I realized that what I thought was a private practice was actually something that landed for other people too. That the stillness I was trying to capture wasn't just mine.
So I built Colorless Way.
The name comes from the Buddhist idea that the nature of awareness has no color, no fixed quality, no edge. It doesn't prefer one thing over another. It's just open. Present. Already seeing. I try to photograph from that place. Not hunting for the shot. Not waiting for the light to be perfect. Just showing up and letting whatever's there become visible.
The iPhone is intentional. I'm not interested in professional distance. I want to be close to the world, not behind equipment. And black and white isn't a style choice, it's a reduction. Color is often the first thing our mind grabs. Take it away and something quieter is left. That's usually the part worth looking at.
I'm a father of two. I work in higher education. I practice Buddhism for compassion and the recognition that awareness is already complete, already awake, already free. I meditate every morning. I write. I coach other fathers who are trying to be more present in their kids' lives through my brand, ThreeSixFiveDad.
And I walk around noticing things.
Colorless Way is where those things live. If one of them ends up on your wall, I hope it does for you what it did for me; makes you stop, just for a second, and see something you might have walked past.
— Odeani
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