Solitude, Nature and the Spirit | Benjamin Powell | TEDxCoeurdalene

Описание: Solitude can be healing. Solitude in nature can work miracles. Listen to Benjamin Powell describe how he found purpose, hope and a career as a nature photographer because he found a place quiet enough to listen to the "still small voice" pointing him forward to his life purpose.

Benjamin Powell developed a passion for traveling and experiencing the outdoors by spending his childhood on top of the peaks, in the National Forests and walking the Wilderness areas surrounding Missoula, MT. The Realization that these experiences, places and culture are unique to our country, expanded his patriotic sense and led him to volunteer in the United States Marine Corps infantry. Returning home, after being tested through 3 separate combat tours in the Iraqi conflict, bolstered his confidence that the outdoors renews the health to a beaten and battered soul. However, Ben wanted to share the beauty he found in nature with the people of the nation he swore an oath to protect. Encouragement from the many influencers in his life, pushed him to begin rendering these spiritually directed scenic moments through the lens of a camera. Now his photographic prints reminding those who contemplate his work of the magnificence of the land we call our country.

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