September 27, 2019

Unique Expression

Eliot Deutsch, "Every deed that one performs has its effect in the world and forms within the doer a samskara or vasana (tendency) that becomes the basis for his future deeds."

Your unique perspective is your inner eye seeing the world through your own special vision. Your image is an expression of yourself, your personality, your inner life exposed to the world through your truth of being visually present in an environment in constant flux. 

Photographs are never perfect, never universally accepted, their perfection arises if you see your message contained in the image you created with purpose for yourself first and next for the viewer. We must remember each person is unique in this world and they will come to your image with a preconception of beauty and a sense of a truth being present but not fully grasping the significance of your perspective and subject matter.  

But they might let go of their distance from the subject and let go of their preconceptions so they could immerse themselves in the image you created and feel the honesty through your composition present, as a truth they can accept with passion and understanding.

Each image has your personality enclosed in the visual expression, you can't please everyone and you shouldn't try, your inner goal is to create through your internal expression objectified through an external composition of details that created your truth in your unique photographic composition. 

Your selection of certain details present in the scene became the foundation of your unique composition, these were the highlights of your inner awareness, after you slowed down, and explored the scene with an artist's vision. This process of studying the scene was your opening up to infinite choices presented which can overpower your sense of connection with the subject, but you were able to focus your attention and narrow your choices down, in this particular instance, to create a photograph that you felt connected with through composition,  light and your unique perspective. 

To make an image worthy of your talent, it doesn't need to have an exorbitant amount of details to bring out the force of your conscious intent.

Your composition in the scene, identified through your unique presence is your growing ability to explore the outer realm and feel connected with details of the scene and then arrange those details to compose your inner connection with those outside forces that are needed to express your inner revelations. 

Everyone gets overwhelmed in a scene of beauty and depth but one must not immediately jump to a short cut composition in order to move on to a new scene just around the bend anticipating the new environment will be the one to allow your  inner talents to shine. You shouldn't be concerned with natures omnipresence and mother nature's infinite ability to show you the myriad of choices when you are looking to connect with just one composition that expresses your unique interior self. Relax and enjoy the ride, through your intuitive vision you will begin to recognize the scene developing as you move around carefully positioning yourself for that magical perception that will best represent your natural, inner vision.