May 19, 2022

Is photography now too literal, versus works of art that seem to elevate the imagination?

We seem to have an over abundance of copycat imagery flooding the photo market.

Your unique, intuitive brain can be independent if you accept your individuality and don’t succumb to the herd instinct of repetitive words and actions.

Photography is an inner experience of artistic vision externalized through light, composition and exposure.

Photography is more than just clicking a shutter, it is immersing yourself in the environment that excites your senses.

To create art one must have their unique style and allow your growing experience to further your artistic skills in making photographs.

Man Ray, “Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.”

The horizon offers infinite possibilities, enlightens the mind to your once youthful imagination and then as the long straight road narrows to a single point of light attracting your vision to enter the scene as one with the light and stand motionless appreciating the vision before you as we enter the nothingness of our lives, outside photography.

Photography is not a hobby it is a way of life.

These corporations compete against each other by lowering the value of their photographers images.

Imagery is treated as a commodity and not an art form.

They have no plans to change their pricing structure that undermines a photographers ability to succeed in the photo agency game. When less is seen as more we know we live in a backward reality becoming a maze of webs that hinder your ability to move forward with your inner visions, you can thank the 1% for their lack of respect for the photographers that make them wealthy.

These greedy men and women of wealth are no longer looked on as crooks but have made it a way of life to gain wealth and live above the little people struggling to survive.

What we have here is a failure of our photo agencies to give a damn about the photographers that made them rich.

Why would anybody put themselves through the frustration of trying to earn a living by submitting their work to a photo agency that gives the photographer 20% of nothing, pennies on the dollar.

And you can be sure with new photographic developments that don’t need photographers to photography people we can foresee a breaking apart of a once photographic vision now undermined, exploited by new advances in destroying photography for good.

Everybody is a photographer and if you don’t like your income leave, their are millions more to enter our little trap of paying our photographers almost nothing while we reap the benefits of volume, volume, volume sales!

These greedy agencies main goal is profit off the backs of the working photographers, who give their all to create images of this beautiful planet being destroyed by the same mentality of our oligarchs of power putting profits before the planet dies.

Photography is personal, your vision of a scene captured through composition, lighting, shutter speed, depth of field, lens, filters, tripod all these necessities of fulfilling your decision to stay where you felt was the best timing of sunrise light right here before you, a mist filled, still water, lake reflection, a mountain range rising above the low lying fog.

You must be present and focused ready to change directions if mother nature’s natural light begins to change, whether you are standing before a landscape, a street scene, a close-up detail that intrigues you, people, rock formations, forest setting, all equal in possibilities.

We seek uniqueness in our photographic vision as we gain experience and begin to feel the evolution of your own inner vision of an outer reality ripe for your exploration in finding subjects that appeal to our inner excitement as we begin to feel our closeness to making a well made photograph.

When you feel your internal, unique vision in mind and matter being sent out into our external reality looking for that landscape to be present as our intuitive thoughts find a potential photograph by patience, by waiting for the warm light to break through the clouds, highlighting your subject with bold rich colors, giving you a demanding composition but one you will overcome, a photograph of depth and closeness as your eye is drawn into the frame seeing details that bring life to the scene as only nature can, becoming your conduit to an awareness of a universal beauty that allows the image creator to be mindful and frame your image using your own unique style, your own compositions that bring forth your internal visions of photographic art.

 

 

May 3, 2022

New Photography Blog

Photos are masks, visions of an external framed picture without the surrounding force of continuity!

When we take images we pull apart the flow of the external reality and disrupt the cohesive flow of a unique vision.

Sometimes video does a better job in telling a story than a photograph.

Taking photos is like buying something at a garage sale, everything is takable without the perception of your intuitive force.

This creates a powerful influence on the cohesiveness of our truth, our own time line in the image.

All images are manipulated today for great color saturation and composition.

Man wants more pieces of this world to capture and exploit for-profit. The underlying reason of art is now a phony excuse to make money at the expense of a false truth.

Of course I am speaking of the giants of stock agencies controlling the price structure and giving the photographers that make these companies wealthy with dollar sales. What a scam these corporations are running, having exploited the naivety of their younger photographers as if they will be able to make a living in a photographic environment of misdirection. We the investors make the money while you photogs supply us with imagery so we can bask in our greedy addiction to money that we have accumulated from you naive amateurs.

Photography now is masking truth. It is a means of egotistical selfishness, of calling oneself a photographer, shooting snap shots of anything and anyone without an intuitive reason, we call that the shotgun approach hoping that one of the shots has to be good!

Everyone now has a camera and as you proceed on the street everyone is a photographer snapping pics of anything that moves hoping for a violent act to happen so they can capture the carnage and upload to their website.

They do it not with depth of feeling but voyeurism that excites the senses and the more violent the better the action and images of anger, hate, rejection, racism, evil, police brutality….

What ever happened to photographers being courteous and asking people if they can take their picture. Now cameras are put right up to the face of innocent people to get a reaction which will then be posted online.

Mother nature is lost in the muddled mess of exploiting human beings, inciting people to fight each other for it looks great on popular websites with ads between each heartbreaking image of violence.

When did violence get to be a hot item to exploit for profit? People living in fear and fear breeds anger and anger breeds hate and hate brings madness of violence even though these racists if asked can’t really explain their cause because their cause has been here amongst us for centuries, conditioned in us to despise different skin colors and they call themselves good christians even when they point blank use racists terms amongst their own and then go out to protest and create violent acts.

Photography used to mean something. It was a photographers duty to make images that told the people the truth of wars, corruption, hunger, pollution, racism …

Now what we get are images of surface reflections of how great this world is and how great it is to send your images to a photo agency and get next to nothing in payment for your efforts. The scam of photo agencies is knowing people’s ego’s are bigger than their understanding of their financial return.

At one time the stock photo business was good for the agency and a good for the photographers creating the images most needed by news organizations, magazines, ads, posters, community guides, stars, athletes, personalities…. and the income was good for the agency and photographers.

But stock images are not art and they are not revelations of insight into the human condition.  These images were made as a product to sell, an income stream so the photographers could live a good life and keep creating images that would sell.

What society and the photographers have done in the art world have accomplished nothing in terms of unique artistic talent but degrading art not as something special but how much does it cost. Price now is the accomplishment of creating external images of people, places and things, stealing the natural flow of a person or a scenic or a sporting event and capturing it in a split second yanking it from its mooring and placing it out of the overall image content in the present scene before you and making it into an ad or article without a revelation of the before and after images that made the  photographer stop and examine the scene and decide on what would be the best angle to take the picture from that would fit nicely into an ad.

The image can’t stand alone without losing its cohesiveness in nature’s flow.

Lets face it photography is no longer an art form it is an ego trip, a look at me and what I just snapped, a quick pic of, and look it is now my image in a magazine, newspaper or in an ad.

And all I had to do was snap a quick pic and I was lucky that at that moment of snapping the photo a man killed himself by jumping off the ledge of a high rise building making an awful thud but hey I got the image and that is all that counts.

Photos are masks of personality, violence, hypocrisy, nature images that show the beauty of this world but never show the truth of this dying planet.

How we deal with violence is not creating images of the scene but helping the people hurt before their anger explodes into the growing world of violent aggressive hate.