November 7, 2020

 

Photography Is Your Bridge To Inner Awareness

A good image is like finding a needle in a hay stack. You can hike for hours and still in that time not find an image you feel is with shooting.

Eventually with perseverance you will finally see the light opening your visual inner door and the composition you were looking for in its natural beauty has been waiting for you to finally see.

You were determined to find images that represented your interior insight to mother nature. In order to create great imagery you must immerse yourself in nature with respect and awe!

Your image must not be over manipulated, that will ruin the natural beauty we all need to be part of.   

The captivity of elusive imagery, your number one goal, the abrupt tiredness when hunting that perfect landscape in beautiful light.  

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.

Whether it is sports, people, abstract expressions of inner consciousness and mother nature you must let go of the conditioned response to external vision. You must seek through your own eyes the beauty you feel present in and not a past image scene in a photo book that you want to imitate.  

Light is never stagnant it is constantly chaining and you must always follow the light in your unique vision to capture the essence of your inner world externalized.

What does authenticity mean in todays image creations? Really nothing at all with all the copycat landscapes being photographed, we have given up on seeking an original, personal image and now click and run to the next subject to exploit without showing our own unique perspective.

You must feel the excitement of discovery when you enter a scene and feel that this place is calling you to just be present and wait as the light changes in infinite directions, to the small details, to overwhelming magnificent landscapes and your subjects move forward with potential then retreat as you narrow down the details being given you through earth’s natural beauty and your sense of what is important to your inner artistic vision.

It can be overwhelming to begin recognizing your own inner world of perceptions. Seeing for the first time subjects that mean more than just snap shots but a representation of your passion, a revelation of your wholeness of reality, inner and outer coalescing into a visual image of perfection.

To be present in vision and deep awareness of your surroundings is a gift given to all but most don’t listen to their intuitive inner voice that would allow them to perceive the outer beauty inside themselves.

We are corralled in our human skin to follow the leader don’t rock the boat do what you are told keep your head down and don’t make waves all these ways of defining you done to control your restless visions to remain stagnate in your own revelation of yourself in time.

The culprit in your narrow beliefs, your narrow vision and hate of change is your intellect that wants everyone to be on the same page doing the same repetitive actions over and over again without the freedom of thought and freedom of expression.

Our system of power has always been to keep the population under strict ways of feeling and seeing this paradise called earth. And controlling your mind, your thoughts was the easiest way to keep ones vision under the rule of strict repetitive dullness, make a living so others will profit, to keep one from experiencing the joy of freedom of your internal senses becoming alive and aware of the external worlds potential of energized caring about others and your own expressions of your inner world whether it is through a lens now open to all nature’s beauty and ugliness or in painting, writing and speaking your own unique truth.

Release your mental stereotypes you have been conditioned to believe in, think about your unique eyesight opening up to the explosion of details, light, composition, your inner instincts quickly become alert to the changing light and as the landscape reveals itself, you anticipate the composition that will bring your connection with the external world to a new visual exclamation of this paradise we live in.