

Tips & Tricks
How to Take Photos Without Taking the Moment

Ava Patel
May 29, 2025
We've all been there — the perfect light, the perfect frame. But what if the real memory isn't in your lens, but in your lungs? In your skin? In the goosebumps you felt when the call to prayer echoed over Marrakech at dusk?
Here’s our ritual: Take the photo. Then put your phone away for at least 5 minutes. Stand still. Breathe. Close your eyes. Let the moment imprint on something deeper than your gallery.
Later, when you look back at that image — it won’t just be pixels. It’ll be a portal.