July 23, 2020

Photography

How do you express externally your inner vision?

Each image created is part of an overall journey toward your inner discovery your inner self demanding to be seen.

There are many barriers to creating great images but you must steel yourself to endure the ups and downs, the frustrations and blown exposures and keep hunting for those perfect moments.

To create great images you must be involved with your subject, studying the nuances that can make or break a classic image.

Your subject needs to be respected and you need to be intuitively aware of your relationship with the subject and have a deep personal respect for the subject you are creating in a photograph.

Before you can create any image you need to be aware of the landscape you are viewing. Whether it is a person, animal or scenic you need to be present, intensely aware of potential compositions that will enhance your subject and bring out in the landscape your personal vision.

This means knowing the subject and the terrain in such a away that it becomes second nature to approach your subject from a certain direction with confidence and empathy of spirit and a willingness to spend the time exploring this unique view, your unique presence in a landscape speaking to your intuitive nature.

The important approach is not to waste time flitting here and there taking snap shots that tell us nothing of your relationship with the subject before you.

Use your time wisely forget about your past and your future thoughts and just be present in your now, each moment goes by so quickly for those that rush through life thinking they are accomplishing something of importance when in fact most of us get worn down as we age and feel the pains of regret for not exploring our intuitive interests more fully that would have taken us into our future lives with a greater understanding of ourselves and our beautiful surroundings on this isolated planet more fully and not with an indifference of spirit, a cold impersonal outlook toward others and our own personal life.

When you begin to meld your thoughts into the landscape and feel the terrain with your visual senses heightened with awareness a detail is seen and then another detail and the puzzle that was fragmented before you is now coming together to become an expression of your inner landscape externalized.

Western thought is built around intellect, functionality and profit. Eastern thought is more introverted and focused in contemplation and reaching toward a new becoming. Western thought is controlled as always by the intellects redundant nature, a nature of order and selective focus, a consciousness easily exploited by powerful forces of monied interests.

Our elites have an addiction of greed not to be intimidated by our external nature but to control it, harness its power for profit from it and ultimately destroy mother earth.

Western thinking wants physical things and wants them now. This in turn also spreads in to everyday life and especially photography. We are in constant hurry mode running from one thing to another without taking the time to immerse oneself in the landscape of self and nature. Our minds are blinded by anything that shines but this isn’t getting to know your subject, this is capturing something quickly, without purpose, treating our existence as if we had no existence outside our working lives. We are caged animals exploited by the powers propaganda of a fear based existence.

All great image makers look at the scene and study the important details of the scene that they want to include to get the viewer of his image to stop and really look at the subject, studying the movement of the visual dynamics, levels of creating and eliminating details that interfere with the vision behind the photographers intuitive perceptions.

As the light gets better and the suns beauty shines over the scene in front of us we find ourselves living in a wonderland of possibilities that will push our intuition to find a perspective that will be your trademark.

A great photograph shows the viewer an insight into the photographer’s purpose by through his composition. A personal relationship with the subject that respects the subject and allows the viewer to also appreciate in the image the play of light, composition and exposure.

Your personal relationship with the subject is an acceptance of the scene and your intent is to create an image that keeps the viewers eye from roaming through the image frame trying to see the center of interest in the details and failing exits and turns the page.