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.