Finding Light Journal
Discover Brad Carr’s Acclaimed Creative Essays at the Intersection of Purpose, Identity, Belonging & Healing
Brad Carr
Brad Carr writes at the intersection of photography, creativity, Nature, healing, and personal transformation. Through creative, reflective essays that emerge from years of wandering Welsh woodlands, writing in the pages of his journal, and mentoring fellow creatives, he explores the inner landscapes that shape our vision—both through the camera lens and through life itself.
These reflections offer sanctuary for those seeking to deepen their creative practice, navigate artistic transitions, or discover how mindful observation and stillness become a pathway to healing and authentic expression. Each piece invites readers to slow down, look closer, and find the light that exists within both the natural world and the internal landscape.
Achieving Catharsis Through Nature Photography
In this essay, I reflect upon a year that has brought about many changes within myself; a year through which I have been writing a lot more that photographing, and uncovering a much deeper sense of purpose for my art.
Seeking Stillness
As I walk along the dusty track, I pass by many of the wicked and wild trees that have been decorating this small corner of the Gwydir Forest for a century or more. There are a handful of oaks but the majority of them here are silver birch trees that love these damp upland moorland environments. I’m just a tiny speck of dust beneath most of the trees, and, despite my hair being a little thinner in some places than it once was, one glance at their weathering bark makes me appreciate my youth. The young should respect their elders, so I pause for a moment to think about how little I know, and how much I still have yet to learn from them.
A Year Amongst Trees
Thoughts and reflections from a year exploring and photographing UK woodland.