April 9, 2021

Photography Blog:

Image creation is a magical experience through preparation, insight, determination and intuition.

Anything can become an amazing subject to explore and make images of.

Images just don’t happen they are made. A good photographer enters his own unique world. His/her emotions begin the search for a subject worthy of the feelings that can’t be pushed away, that can’t be ignored.

Whether they are happy or sad these feelings must be expressed and internalized through the outline of a photograph taking shape in your mind a vision forming and then externalized through the image creation.

A photograph is nothing but ones inner world being shown to the world.  We mustn’t fear our inner world being represented through great image creations.

For our truth in life is what we are attracted to in the physical world that dictates to us our emotional states. We must move past the confusions of our externalized world trying to move you closer to conformity of being present and not your visual intuition seeing a subject that represents your inner feelings and your anger at the indifference of wealth as the world crumbles in polluted air and minds.

Photography is an expression of your inner mind and no one else’s.

We must move away from the greedy eyes to your own personal vision of subjects that reflect your inner being.

As photographers we are drawn to certain subjects more than others. Your childhood world played a big part in your older consciousness wanting to return to those early years when everything was new and visually exciting.
 
In some cases your early experiences at creating art were horrendous without mercy and your inner being was crushed but through seeking an outlet for your artistic vision photography gave you confidence to explore your inner fears and create works of art by believing in yourself and your inner talent.

To see reality in its truth you must explore the past and conquer your fears by channeling the external world into a photographic structure, an image that
you make and no one else.

Your unique focused vision is your inner release, letting go of earlier times and people that tried to break you but couldn’t.

When you are in tune with the environment you have chosen to explore you must open your mind to the overwhelming possibilities that are present.

Your subconscious begins its duty of drawing you closer to your subject with little details that will eventually be the foundation of your photograph.

Focused attention leaves behind the hectic pace of everyday life and allows you these moments of calmness amongst the subjects you are drawn too.

We are not robots seeking a subjects that are redundant without a visual connection to ourselves.  

What we like or dislike external to us has been conditioned in us through parents, brothers, sisters, friends, enemies, teachers etc… We need to break through these early barriers and open ourselves to new image challenges that just might open our inner vision to new horizons.

Photographers feed off their own personal vision. We seek imagery that reflects our own unique style. We are not afraid to experiment with light, lenses, shutter speeds, filters..etc, that will give our subject that extra technique and vision that can stun the viewer with its momentous truth.

My fear nowadays is the overwhelming amount of images being taken and posted online, these images are snap shots of passing moments without a visual anchor to excite our senses.

These social media imagery degrade the photographic history of our best photographers. Now anything can be and is used in ads as if the message was anything but what the models were wearing. Every photograph taken now it seems is an ad for some product.

Photographs in todays culture of video games, self praise without self awareness, demeans photography and its original purpose to give people the ability to see the world through the eyes of a photographer giving his life so others can feel the hypocrisy of power, the hate, starvation, wars, climate change, instead of a surface reflection without depth of purpose, an imitation of ones inability to dig deeper into our earthly history and present moments.

A good photographer sometimes needs to put his blinders on and not listen to the repetitious voices of the talking heads and just move forward with their own personal projects that can shed light on the destruction of this planet by the oligarchs that now rule us all.

A good photographer nowadays need to be strong, determined and not allow voices of conformity, to
control your focused independent photography projects.

Don’t be corralled by the redundant visions of security by those that do not want to find the truth of our existence performing for the elites, doing their shallow formulas of mind control.

Keep focused on your independent photography projects.

When the subject is finally discovered and your intense visual perception of the landscape excites
your vision you flow into the dramatic scene as an observer connected through your senses on high alert as you begin to compose your image waiting making changes to your composition as the light becomes intense begins to cooperate with your intent and you feel the moment is near as the sunlight illuminates your unique perspective because you had positioned yourself where you knew the elements of nature would meet your intuitive awareness that drew you to this particular location to create great photographs.