September 8, 2019

Everything has the ability to become a great photograph if the photographer is willing to connect with the subject on an intuitive level.

I have always been impressed with how being present in your inner intuition makes a photographer understand more quickly why this particular subject has a deeper message for him than say what another photographer’s external vision and then the intuitive photographer understands his inner sights attraction so he lingers and observes the landscape waiting for his revelation, exploring the visual stimulus he has been given.

A photograph is a means of descriptive character, a visual novel in one simple frame of exposure. A photographer has an intense need to see himself reflected in the images he creates. But not to the point that would be distracting to the visual experience of the viewer.

The image capture is one of focused intention on the details that bring forth in the image that your personal presence begins to visualize a composition that can give meaning to your visual concentration. What can you see that links your inner intuition with the scene in front of your view screen? Are you aware of your surroundings? Are you in a focused concentration on the landscape being presented and are you willing to take your time in focused purpose, searching the infinite visual space presented for those details that will express your inner feeling that are demanding your full attention in a composition that reflects your inner character.

Photographers are obsessed with the very idea of capturing something, anything in their viewfinder. The necessity of coming away from the scene with any kind of an image is very powerful in the mind of the snap shooter. But the confusion for someone that isn't mentally prepared, hasn't spent the time looking within himself to discover his unique perspective is a surface facade of the deeper subject that was missed. If the person just spent more time emerging himself in the scene than his image creation could have been insightful. 

As a photographer you need to empty your mind of the stresses putting pressure on your visual focus. You must let go of the world's demands looking for a common center of interest the scene is revealing to you and focus your visual attention on the subject that is demanding you to stop and observe the beauty of nature in this present moment.

One of the limiting forces of our physical reality is our dependence on time. The beginning, a visual perception of a scene before you. The middle, your awareness begins to dim as you have other pressing things to worry about. The ending, your visual adventure is wasting valuable time, so pack your gear and ignore the beauty present in the scene and leave behind a piece of your artistic skill because time was calling the shots and you were not present in your moments to ignore the force of duration that accuses you of a lazy attitude by being still in nature, waiting for that special moment to arrive. 

We are slaves to money and time. We count each hour, each day as wasted by asking ourselves what did I accomplish that was mine, my own unique expression. My life is not owned by me because we are not able to use our time for our own unique expressions. 

By allowing external forces to deprive us of our inner vision is the corruption of our freedom to pursue our original voice, silenced by corporations and wealth using an economic system intended to keep the population struggling to keep up with the increasing deprivations that have been strategically imposed on us to keep us from expressing our inner truths, by a structure made to control our lives and unique visions. Because of our structured existence our lives becoming more barren, the status quo is our normality and we suffer in our inability to see beauty inside ourselves and externally. We are not physical objects, things, we are human beings with insights into our own realities that can open us up to new worlds of beauty if we only could break free from the structure of instant gratification. A means of control in our lives creating distractions from our inner visual senses.

We are not our true selves in this corporate, destructive alienation we live in but pawns in the hectic pace of industrial and technological dominance over our lives where we have no time to get in touch with our inner intuitions and release the years of stagnant thoughts of insights abandoned but now starting to rise up within us, creating an openness and acceptance of all humanity and natures gifts that we have ignored for decades, giving us a strength, an openness of our being present fully and intensely aware, seeking the opportunities of our unique visual possibilities just waiting to be expressed in our own personal way.