For Bell, observing things and taking photos is a meditative experience. “It’s just a wonderful way to stay focused,” he says. “To take good pictures, you have to train yourself to see, you have to look. And you have to be somewhere else other than yourself. It pulls me outside of me.” The photo gallery below contains more of Bell’s photos, all taken on an iPhone 4. To learn more about how to take good photos with your iPhone, click here.

This web extra provides additional information related to an article titled, “Stop, Look…See,” which appeared in the October 2013 issue of Mindful magazine.