May 15, 2019

In image creation there is a mysterious force brewing as one finds that documenting his/her life and where they have travelled is more important than just experiencing those moments by just being present in the scene. The camera between you and your subject is a great hindrance in creating great images. Your obsession with taking pictures of everything before you, without a since of your latent visual organizing power, creates a haphazard journey of images without a theme, images without character, images taken as random footprints of where you were but never showing what you really saw of importance to your inner self, that can move you and excite you to create an image by using your unique perspective.

What most people seem to believe is that taking photos is being present in their moments, but it really distances them, with a camera in front of their face, creating a barrier to the experience present in that moment, ignored by an addiction to present oneself in snap shots on social media rather than becoming immersed in the scene with your visual unique sensitivity.

One image created with intuitive force and with feeling can express everything you felt deeply and experienced in that one frame, one timeless exposure that you became intimately connected with.  And there was nothing else you needed except your visual awareness of what the scene was revealing to your inner presence.

In creating images you must be present in your unique moments, allowing time to experience and appreciate the scene that is beginning to develop, as you connect on an intuitive level with the physical space before you. If you don't have a concentrated focus to be present in the developing scene why are you there in the first place. 

To allow yourself the confusion of continuous distractions brings your level of creativity to a complete halt. We are so caught up in social media it is becoming a true detriment to a healthy perceptive mind, an individual seeing. If we believe that the external world is set in a rigid normality, a universal perception of conformity, and this is all we have to look forward to in this endless distracting minutia of inconsequential personalities and backyard images of food, then we are doomed to live lives of mediocrity and we will never reach our own unique individual point of view, with our own defiance of the standard composition, of a controlled life, a life whose present and future is determined by someone else, whose future is anger and frustration at what we should have become, our own unique point of view. To become you, you first must know yourself.

We take in each second of the day, an easily digestive series of images and surface words that never give us a deeper understanding of the lives we are forced to become. 

 

Why are we so blatantly opposite of our own personalities. Our own inner core of purpose and observation of these shallow moments that are constantly bombarding our visual senses. 

This redundant, repetitive sleep walking in our physical presence is a learned conditioning we received through our early years and made us afraid to think for ourselves. To have faith in our own unique perceptions.

If we open ourselves, our minds to this world, the only world we will ever know, you can begin to immerse yourself in the nature of being present and aware of the infinite choices you have in creating an image from your inner unique perspective. You must look deeply into the black void of your mindful necessity of adaption and begin to free your genuine universal presence, an independent thought. That can reach deep into the depths of your uniqueness that has been chained to a known formula of obedient actions instilled in you, the fear of choice. 

One must perceive himself in his own unique actions. If he doesn't see and feel his own complexity of information then he is unaware of societies deliberate means to control all behavior.  This fast paste life we live is a construct of known origin. It is the business mind, the hypocrisy of social justice, making you feel that you are behind and you must work faster and harder in order to reap the benefits of your actions. All along your actions are limited and determined by the industrial pollution of this planet for profit. 

The exhaustion we feel at the end of our work day, slaving to make enough to feed our children and maybe just, maybe a little more to celebrate a dinner out.

Think about your choices that lead you to this present moment. Did you seek this path with excitement and vigor, soaking in all the books and all the seminars that you could attend in order to gain a better perspective on the decisions you will have to make. Or did you accept your future, allowing others to dictate to you who you would become. 

 

Were you defeated in your quest for individuality by fearing your responsibility to become more than just words repeated by parents and friends, a surface reflection of your repetitive inability to challenge the status quo, your journey to hide from your uniqueness and follow anothers rules without questioning their validity. Allowing someone elses perspective to become  your truth and you assumed your defeated acceptance of a road you thought was unique, that you would never have taken if you were aware of your unique inner being.

Your insightfulness into your own inner explorations becoming aware through intuitive discoveries of an external facade that is illusive and domineering is the beginning journey you will have to make as you delve deeper into the earthly formations, the facades of untruth, that will guide you to your inner revelations present only to those that can see beyond the structured deceptive limiting manipulations.

When you are creating images you are in complete control of your composition. Your perspective is unique and it is demanding a vision that will express your inner world.  These created images sometimes are very simple to make. There is flow and movement of your mind that enters the scene and and quickly understand the landscape before you and moves you to a point of interest that summarizes the scene in your unique perspective. Other times you come to a scene and you must stop and reflect deeply with your inner intuition to find a path that brings you to a place that first enhances your initial visual thought and unfolds the nature of the scene so you can enter it with a knowing of your unique intuitive voice giving you a revelation of a landscape you could have missed if you were in a state of anxious departure.  

We all want to find the perfect expression of the scene before us. What has drawn us to this place in this moment under these lighting conditions. We could accept our initial perception, shoot the image and then move on to the next best thing or we could stand in the presence of nature’s beauty and relax and breath in the atmosphere of the landscape and bond with the scene on a deeper level.  

By having the patience to wait and not start blitzing the scene with frame after frame hoping for a lucky composition and exposure you will be immersed in your subject, a communion of body and soul and the image expressed from this intimate bonding will be your inner world externalized for all to see.

Freedom of choice is the mantra of an independent self becoming a perceptive visionary of their inner world becoming externalized. Your visual development, your freedom, is to express your inner world with external details, your intellect will want to categorize and label your approach as a structured repetition of other’s thoughts and composition. That is not what a true artist does. A true artist expresses his inner world with his truthful interpretation of his inner life. We may not fully grasp his intent but his unique perceptions are worth the trouble of studying.  His unique vision expressed through image creation is a personal revelation of his uniqueness. 

We can’t express our true selves without looking deeper into the structured environment we are born into. The controlling forces of this world are moneyed interests that do not look for revelations of the spirit but a conformity of the spirit to work and slave for the few that keep a tight lid on their extravagant nature that consumes them. 

Don’t narrow your visual experience to a set of images already known, explore and experiment with your perceptive nature and create a unique vision that only you can express.
When creating personal images we need to research where we are going. What is there to stimulate us into creating our unique vision.  We never want to copy the image brochure that can guide us to reinvent the images shown through your own creative nature.