November 23, 2020

New Photography Blog

We are in a hectic world running around in fear and anger as our lives get more complicated. We are being attacked by the covid19 virus that will bring us to our knees if we don’t follow the plan of safety before gathering with others in a party atmosphere!

We make images of importance to us and the viewer when we are faithful in our witness to the beauty of life.

Photography’s purpose is capturing a moment in the fluidity of time. Humans need the stability of external
subjects to be stagnate not fleeting moments of our lives. This gives us a sense of power over the illusion of reality we experience everyday.

Humans need control over the forces of nature to feel empowerment over mother earth. Our gaps in life are made true when we capture a moment of beauty, anger, wars, poverty, portraits, nature, industry, travel, people… that shows our being present and involved in our unique space and time.

Life is transitory always changing and to be able to capture a good image you must be present in your ability to uncover the composition that best fits your visual consciousness, your visual experience being present in the scene.

You have entered another realm of being when you immerse yourself into becoming more than just a tourist snapping pics and then moving on.

You must have a connection with your subject in order to create a composition that is real and true to your visual talents.

By being present you absorb the beauty that surrounds you and you put it securely in the camera’s memory card as a witness to your visual perspective. The camera is your link to experiencing the external world without a need to race through your life and miss the important moments of truth connected with your unique style and nature’s willingness to share with you these precious moments.

In photography when we are intensely present in our moments without our mind wondering, over thinking these present moments we enter a new dimension. Once a connection is made you begin to see with open eyes the potential of the scene before you.

The world has always been in chaos but our job as a photographer is to find moments of form that will allow the viewer to see into your unique vision, your expressive character and your determination to make an image worthy of your talent.

Photographers can stabilize their angered perceptions of a reality built around money. Money is only a tool but for some it is an addiction. Instead of worshiping a god we have replaced god with the worship of cash as our means to a physical paradise.

This greed for power is an illusion of grandeur and it undermines the natural flow of living a life that is intuitively connected around your love of creating photographs.

To see external reality not as means to power but a means to create images that inspires our youth to follow their hearts and intuition and not be sidetracked by envy, for your power is in your focused attention on your subject and the composition beginning to form.

When we come upon a scene that has potential to be
a good image we must pause and take in the entire landscape searching for the right elements of composition to inspire us to formulate in our photographic eye details that will become the foundation of the forthcoming image.

As photographers we are detail oriented, we make judgements based on our intuitive recognition of
a scene that has potential.

Photographers must clear their minds of cliches and copy cat images seen in travel magazines. We must focus our attention on our own inner composition and express it through the layers of possibilities present in the external world.

As we approach a scene worthy of our photographic efforts we begin to feel a complexity of choices we are reacting to because our senses are getting hyper aware of the possibilities just beginning to surface.  

There are times when you enter a scene and you have already sensed where you want to be and what lens best fits your inner visual composition.

Your years of experience allow you to dissect a scene quickly and know exactly what you want to express.
 
This comes from years of experience and understanding your inner selective vision and the purpose being given you through mother natures infinite expressions of beauty.

Photography is a symbol of your visual perspective, if it is less defined then your subject will communicate to viewers weakly as if the photographer just snapped a shot and moved on without a focused purpose in the composition and exposure.

What do you look for in a scene when you find a potential image to be created? Is it drama, emotion,
action, a person or is it a potential unique composition and the strong play of light and dark contrast in the scene made by mother nature that excites your visual stimulus.

Image creation is always through your unique inner vision!
 
Any place you choose to make pictures of has the potential for you to create a classic image.

Beauty isn’t in the eye of the beholder but in the eye of a photographer!

You need to develop a deep core relationship with nature. Let nature express its beauty to you and be sensitive, patient and aware of damaging nature through careless disregard for the beauty deposited in front of you.

The more you spend time in nature, the more respect you will have for mother earth and the beauty reflected in your choices that will create a composition that will draw attention to your unique vision.

Your talent is blending your personal vision with your choice of subject matter.

Don’t settle for the average stock photo, really look deep into the scene and make images through finding the perfect angle possible that gives the viewer something unique to appreciate, a new better perspective of an iconic scene.  

Always be looking for the moment of awe when your determination to find and compose your image is a personal revelation of your unique vision.