February 15, 2022

When we feel the potential of a new scene that wasn’t expected we have a choice to make, move on to your original purpose in hiking up the mountain side to your original destination or suddenly you are forced to make a choice, keep moving up the trail to a scene you came to photograph or dig deeper into the scene that presented itself to you, as you begin to sense something more is being presented in this landscape that intrigues your inner vision and to stop moving away from its potential, just pause and wait awhile to see if the sunlight will dance in front of your eyes as you study the scene before you until you begin to see details that once composed within the growing light could lead to an overwhelming feeling of a photograph detailing nature’s beauty, patience is the key to success, as the sunlight begins to bring out subtle details that were not present in the beginning of your visual interest but now exposes you to a beautiful wonderland of possibilities that you are seeing blossom before your eyes revealing a photographic vision of light, shade and color, which explains why your instinct attracted you in the first place to not be too focused on another scene when you are now beholding to that quick inner composition that made you stop and envision the potential of this new awareness, this unique landscape presented to you as the sunlight grows more powerful toward sunset,

Photography is more than just clicking the shutter, it is an inner expression of your being present in a life you earned through patience and a sense of wonder to be explored.

This is not your agencies past where they supported the photographers and actually paid the photographer to shoot specific subjects, live subjects that were not repetitive and boring but had depth but now given the greed in the new mega agencies always looking for power and moneyed interests for the new agencies is all about pricing and money in the bank while we create great images that the mega agencies sell for a lowered price as if our photos were just redundant scraps of someone else’s vision, so they sell the stock photographers images in volume, and these images are just products without any hope of selling for a higher price for the photographers to make a decent living, for photography now is bulk sales sold and bought for bargain basement prices.