November 28, 2020

Is It To Late To Become A Photographer

Photographing an unusual subject has given me a new awareness of the freedom to do your own thing. With subjects rarely photographed you have a new playground to perform in. We must open our interior field of play
to the changing atmosphere of photography and be ready to photograph the weird, wild and unique.

We are separate from others external reality and what we choose to make images of is our own personal expressions.

The intent of your photographic vision is the most important aspect of your image creation. Why are you attracted to this particular subject, what is your intent.

When it comes to image creation you must be fully present, immersing yourself in the landscape, seeking your moment of visual revelation. 

Your unique purpose in photography is to be true to your inner preparation, your skill of knowing your self in relation to your subject and then creating a photograph that reveals your inner creativity externalized.

When we photograph in the abstract we leave little clues as to what we are making images of. Not to many clues but enough so a viewer of your image can piece together the absence of details, rebuilding the image, making the image into his own visual reality.

Taking a household product and reducing the object to an abstraction and seeing if anyone could recognize what the pieces of the puzzle are was very enlightening. 

When we reduce an object to limited details of recognition then the mind can’t form a coherent wholeness of your subject in its usual visual form, the clarity of subject matter, so our experiencing the photograph becomes a puzzle to solve.

For the object is no longer real in its physicalness to excite our intellect, the sense of visual understanding is missing.

When we look at an image abstraction, we need to let go of our preconceived ideas of what we are looking at, and try and piece together the puzzle before us without an anchor of normalcy.

Immediate impressions of images don’t have to follow a static formula of experience. Shake things up and look for details and compositions that will create for the viewer a new way of seeing an old boring, familiar subject, a cliche known immediately, by mixing things up in a unique visual way through a composition and exposure that attracts the viewer to really look at your image with a more intuitive vision rather than the dullness of one more copycat image creation.

Photographers must break free from the cliche’s of copycat photography and build their own personal image portfolio of unique personal photographs.

By creating a new arena of abstract photographs you entice the viewer to enter your visual imagination.

The intuitive force of perception, finding a piece of the puzzle which breaks open your unique visual excitement from the dull reinforced commonality of societies fear of being themselves and not pawns to narrow mindedness of imitating what other's have created.

In photography is there anything new being done when it comes to innovation and artistic talent?

We can’t all be Jackson Pollock creating a new vision of experimentation and expressing his unique vision and being able to demand the attention of the entire world.

Photography is now a limiting artistic expression. We can’t reinvent the wheel and create through talent alone a new vision for the masses to believe in. And lets face it follow they will. 

Life is corrupt in every sense of the word. Cheaters, healers, fantastic liars, incomprehensible mutterings of madmen and the writings of of poets without substance.

Photography is now a means to copy and exploit. It is photoshop and dull lights of a lessened imagination. 

Our utensils for eating haven't changed in the sense of a quick exposure and then move on. Everyone can look through the viewer and press a shutter and take an image. 

But that certainly doesn't mean the image will be a reflection of intent to create something personal worth studying.

What does photography lack now that makes images seem so redundant?

The fact of the matter is photography was never redundant in the early years of photography, it was a mind altering experience, a means of seeing the world as it was through the individual photographers ability to be present in the right moments to express the people's lives through great imagery.

These photographers created iconic images that made people see the truth and falsehood behind the glory and sorrow of America and a lot of it wasn’t pretty.

The poverty of millions of people, wars brutal depravity, hunger a means of exterminating other cultures, people living in lies, people living in extravagance as people slept out on the streets,  all were explored by these creative photographers that saw the importance of imagery as truth.

Now in America we never see in our shallow news reporting anything to do with the continuation of violence and oppression of people all over this planet. But we do see ads demanding we buy these products for our own personal gluttony.

For our own awareness we must seek information that brings us truth not surface news with no depth, as the early photographers did, they awakened our controlled, mindless existence by the corrupt governments and oligarchs around the world, to force us to see beyond the words and begin to find our truth by opening our minds to new sources of information not from the models mouthing nonsense on news shows that give us nothing but surface glitter without substance, distractions, undermining our knowledge of what this country has become.

These bought politicians owned by the wealthy make laws that exploit the people and make the wealthy's off shore accounts bulge with our hard earned money. 

The illegal money these criminals take from taxpayers should go into rebuilding our infrastructure, long overdue, but the oligarchs don’t care about the people and their suffering for they have parties to attend and their egos want to show off their diamond and gold robberies. It has always been this way. Power and fear are synonymous with mind control.

Through the centuries these brave men and women photographers have seen life’s ugly mess and have decided this abomination of cruelty must be seen and heard by all humanity.

These photographers went out and showed the world what was truly happening around this planet and the cruelty of life people lived every day of their lives.

Theses iconic images made us stop and think about the cruelty of wealth and we began to make changes that opened the door for awareness of other cultures poverty and we opened America to them to enter our country without fear and hate that was eating away their lives under dictators.

The changes in photography are mostly technology driven making it easier for anyone to pick up a camera and make a decent photograph without having to think. We call that kind of image shooting snapshots. These images have no depth of character but are just surface reflections of ones limited inner vision.

And the majority of these images are made by deliberately copying someone else’s original work.

Human beings are a herd species, what is good for one is good for all and in photography taking pics in a split second is the new norm for creative expression.

Run and gun photography and then quickly post it to your blog and you are a hero of what?

We are cattle following the bull down a road of stereotypes, dependency and betrayal of your own inner originality. 

The primordial instinct of survival is our addiction to be seen and heard for we all want to be noticed even if it is an embarrassing moment but you can believe someone took your photo and it is being downloaded right now and seen by by thousands!

Picture taking is now being turned into a billion dollar social media extravaganza,
for we the people give our images to them for free!

Where does one begin to find subjects worthy of your intensity to create your inner perception? Everything is possible when your intuition begins to formulate a plan to explore the world with new eyes, open to the possibilities of expressing our visual connections of the outer world with your inner visualization of your unique originality seeing deeply the expressions of your inner being expressed through photography.

When we see fake news broadcast on the airways we assume that the truth is being told. We are gullible in the insistence that their words are our truth when in fact they are repeating words known to satisfy the disinterested spirits exhausted from the daily grind of frustration, low pay, racism, forced to make choices that are not ours but someone else’s. Since childhood we have been conditioned to repeat words that became ideas and then became traps that most of us got caught up in.

To express your own choice, your own purpose, your true character in all it’s uniqueness is to just open your front door to the world anew and let go of your prejudices and be true to all the glory of mother nature that surrounds you.

There is a new visual world of exciting original imagery awaiting photographers with purpose for those opportunities that can immerse you in your photographic project, harken back to the days of openness and visual awareness of what was happening to our world slowly being controlled by the elites of criminality.

Your imagery is not a facade built around ads that want you to follow the herded cattle to shop and buy their products for their profit not yours.

This overwhelming distribution of faceless consumerism, this instinctive drive through decades of exploiting the populace to ignore their own uniqueness of choice and to follow the ads domineering enticement to be someone else when you buy their product, is manipulation of your mind to choose an exterior purpose instead of your interior purpose of inner revelation and your own individual perceptions that can be made into photographs.

In creating photographs with purpose you must release your burden of the exterior reality pulling and scaring you into a submissive role of follow the leaders. These leaders do not have your interests at heart, they have money emanating from every pore on their body, it is greed and power that they are addicted to and not your unique perspective. Conformity to worthless lies is the new dawn of our confined future obeying the oligarch demands and not our own.