Note: This book is incorporated into the book "The Mind-Body Reset Code"
Dr. John A. Allocca, Copyright 2025
Color ISBN 9798287581046
Black and White ISBM: 9798287584566
187 - 6" x 9" pages
Photographers are often drawn to animals and nature because these subjects provide unique opportunities for creativity, connection, and storytelling. Here are some key reasons why many photographers are passionate about capturing the natural world and its inhabitants:
Beauty and Aesthetics
Connection to the Wild
The Challenge
Storytelling and Advocacy
Escapism and Mindfulness
Diversity and Surprise
Emotional Connection
Conservation and Legacy
In essence, photography becomes a way for these individuals to celebrate, honor, and protect the natural world while also expressing their creativity and passion.
Almost everyone in western society has a cell phone with a camera, which makes photography easy. Photography is a tool used in this methodology to to explore what people feel inside. Any camera or cell phone can be used. What are you called to photograph? What emotions does the photograph bring to the surface? How does it make you feel? This book will help to guide you through this process. This book contains two of Dr. Allocca's personal journeys: 2009 and 2018 with some additions from 2019 , 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Dr. Allocca is a medical research scientist and biophysicist with many years of personal experience in photography and with some knowledge of Buddhism, Shamanism, Yoga, self-discovery, and personal growth.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Mindfulness and Ego Control Battles
The Genesis Meditation
Dr. Allocca's Journey Started in Sedona
Photographic Journeying
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the East 2009
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the South 2009
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the West 2009
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the North 2009
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the South 2018
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the East 2018
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the South 2018
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the West 2018
Dr. Allocca's Journey to the North 2018
Addendum 2019
Addendum 2020
Addendum 2021
Addendum 2022
Addendum 2023
Beginning with a Camera
A Beginner's Guide to Imaging the Moon
Smart Imaging Telescopes
Your Personal Journey
Your Personal Journey To The East
Your Personal Journey To The South
Your Personal Journey To The West
Your Personal Journey To The North
Suggested North Assignments
Your Personal Journey Reflection
Dr. John A. Allocca, Copyright 2024
ISBN 978-1547107346
240 - 6" x 9" pages
This book covers the basics of astronomy and photography
Table of Contents:
Part 1 - Astronomy Basics
Introduction
Learning Astronomy
Binoculars
Binocular Collimation
Telescopes and Spotting Scopes
Magnification
Field of View
Light Gathering
Tripods and Mounts
Filters
Polar Alignment with an Equatorial Mount
Star Charts for the Northern Hemisphere
Constellations
Moon Phases
Perspective of Earth and the Universe
Part 2 - Photography Basics
Photography Basics
Backyard Bird Photography
Part 3 - Astrophotography and Observing
Astrophotography Basics
DSLR Astrophotography
A Beginner’s Guide to Imaging the Moon
Solar Imaging and Observation with White Light Filtration
Solar Imaging and Observation with Hydrogen Alpha Filtration
Tracking and Stacking Images
Smart Imaging Telescopes
Color (many photos and diagrams in color) and Black and White Versions
Transform Your Life with The Mind-Body Reset Code
In The Mind-Body Reset Code, Dr. John Allocca reveals a groundbreaking system that combines neuroscience, biochemistry light therapy, nutrition, movement, and consciousness training to reset your body at the deepest level.
You will discover:
How to reprogram neurotransmitters naturally
The hidden triggers silently sabotaging your health
The science behind brain enhancement and red light therapy
A simple system to eliminate stress at the physiological level
Nutritional strategies to stabilize blood sugar and reduce inflammation
Guided practices using meditation, movement, and even photography
A powerful framework connecting biology, geometry, and consciousness
This is not just a program. It's a complete reset protocol for your brain and body.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Neurochemical Reprogramming For Migraine, Depression, and Other Neurotransmitter Problems
BrainicityTM Sound - Visual - Red Light Therapy
Meditation
Understanding The Physiological Effects of Emotional Stress
Stress Reduction with Desktop Yoga
Nutritional Guidelines
Physical Exercise
Photography - A Path To Healing
Evolution and Sacred Geometry
Theory of Universal Relativity - The Coexisting Multiple Time State Principle
Healthy Gourmet Recipes
Dog Food and Nutrition
Paumanok Poems and Pictures of Long Island - Kindle Edition
Paumanok Poems and Pictures of Long Island is an anthology of poetry about relationships, yours, mine, married to photographs, a years worth, all artists from Long Island.
"Paumanok-Transitions" is a tour de force - an impressive performance by poets, photographers and the editor and co-editors! This year-long anthology of poems and photographs begins each month with Whitman's words which transition the reader from the past to the present. The illuminating poems in this anthology lead the reader backward and forward at the same time - an oxymoron, a feat only possible with words. The poetic words in these pages document transitions of the personal, spiritual, social, sexual, emotional and political, akin to Whitman's own journey - when he went forth as a child from his Birthplace into the world as a builder's apprentice, journalist, essayist, newspaper founder, Civil War nurse, novelist, poet and Comerado. His fellow travelers in this volume vividly relate their transitions with spontaneous awareness or aching recall - involving a movement or shift that is transformative for both poet and reader.
Cynthia Shor, Executive Director, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association