VAIHI'S WATERFALLS

Between the Gaze and the Silence

When I stand before a landscape, I don’t rush to capture it.
I take a moment to pause — to be still, to feel.
The place welcomes me, quietly.
The air, the light, the sounds, the scents… all sink into me before I even lift the camera.

Photography, for me, is a meeting.
A meeting with a space, a fleeting instant, an emotion that nature offers and I try to understand.
I connect with what surrounds me, as if every element were whispering its place in the world.
I don’t try to control the scene — I listen, I merge with it, I let it move through me.

Only when something aligns — within me and around me — do I press the shutter.
That click is not a technical act, but a breath, a trace of the bond that has formed.

Every photograph I take is a fragment of that connection:
a silent testimony to the moment when the gaze becomes presence,
and nature, for an instant, reveals something of herself… and of me.