April 26, 2022

the symptoms of despair, the touch of anothers cold hand inhibiting the need to become other than your structured self a

self-unrealized through anothers eye, revelations, the sins of

youth ignored, each with a purpose of self-pleasure we rise in morning darkness we seek nothing of love for now money

demands our addiction, keep to theses patterns instilled in your mind, your control of your external world an illusion, a motive begins to form maybe a sense of action but now unnecessary

 

human nature is faulty and giddy with thoughts of power, pride just illusions of control and purpose for your time present is not for you but another seeking profits as you slave under motives that benefit others, your intellect confirmed narrowing your vision of self importance in the grip of chaos we keep to patterns always moving in one direction little blips of self-awareness soon to evaporate like bugs crawling up the wall seeking an escape, we feed our reality with fear of losing

importance based on income we are surrounded in corrupt ideals unnoticed laws passed in the dead of night giving our hard earned taxes to the wealthy 1%, and yet we feel the lessening of skill in corruption and now it prances before us unafraid to be recognized as criminal desires what we believe as life is a demonstration of the ego’s power building edifices to their character an illusion of the senses for they built nothing without stealing someone else’s hard earned income and dived right into

our tax dollars taking from us what dollars they wanted expanding their greed that made them stronger, more evil as they now play god over all of us, human behavior always in flux each generation latches on to the propaganda machine that seek their conformity, a better future when deep in our psychic we know we are being manipulated to believe in something that brings profits not for us but the immoral leaders of divine hypocrisy it is a pandemic of thoughtless facts that detour you from your own

nature separate and unique finding your footing is loose and your direction of self-understanding now evaporating even before you found your path to freedom of self-awareness to stand on your own feet to control your future and not the one being picked for you, your life now dismissed without support now you are put in the corral with the others and you must fight it out amongst the hateful eyes fighting for a little piece of power over someone, anyone to feel that you too could have been important

if you didn’t deny your future life by seeking your own unique truth, late in the growing calm of still thoughts I assume my life had a purpose, I think, I don’t think, I don’t want to think, I am dry of my own ideas my unique journey cancelled, a new look, a new pride, a new party to attend and yet they know me as an actor and not a person, an individual separate without an inner awareness of self, we are in a box without knowledge of the plans already forming without your consent, a carrot dangling before

eyes once focused now each moved to do the bidding of others, we think we know who we are and why we are here but nothing is for your benefit you are a character playing your part in meek yeses for what is present in you is a rejection of your individuality and going along with the flow of corruption, your new persona ignores your old traits of giving and now succumb to the demands of greed clutching for any simplistic means of pilfering anothers hard earned cash you have joined the new

human race, parasites with knowing eyes detecting one that is an easy mark as poverty joins the ranks of military madness, white supremacy ranks with superficial normalcy of hate, an irrational thought is thrown in the air, for one to grab, flipping coins to see how to demean others for fun and profit how do humans conditioned to hunt, conditioned to follow the hero idol, replace the aggressive animal instincts still in abundance in all humanity and move away from conventional thoughts and move toward an

intuitive perception of lives wasted in moments fighting with each other and not paying a purposeful awareness of the true culprits of our exploitation the affluent, these men and women are separate entities from us bought souls working hard for greed as they control more and more of our behavior, for they are the new controlling class of our liberty barely visible to the naked eye, we are too busy trying to survive the rampaging excess of these men and women of selfish addictions, their greedy

eyes always looking for a quick profit off the working class by introducing religion into our lifecycle, these unfeeling beings of aggressive power instigated a belief in a higher purpose and we the people of slavery had to endure the violence of rape, murder, wars, salvation through sacrifice, giving of oneself to this higher purpose a paradise waiting for us after death while the brutal nature of wealth that destroyed lives for pleasure in the past, present and into our infinite future was just a test of our faith in

a silent god that seemed to live in a vacuum of self praise and power, and when will mankind revolt against these false god’s not in heaven but here on this planet that rule us as we rule animals and our lasting expression is not one of thankful dying but one of fear of death for what awaits us on the other side could be another scam perpetuated by a more powerful, more ruthless maniac seeking pawns in his kingdom of pain and  sorrow, a hell that never ends here on earth our god’s are 

illusions of belief for what we are now living through is a more aggressive, a violent taking of our lives through not the devil but the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few that dictate to us how we will live and who we will serve and their morals are illusive and their ethics are non- existent when dealing with us, their inferior creatures but they will share ideas of criminal actions with others of their clans for wars equal profits, hunger equals profits, for the weak will do anything to save their

families, our taxes equal profits for they have had their hands in our pockets since the beginning of time, their dreams are not about saving people or saving this planet from extinction but who can come up with the next plan to take, exploit and kill for their investments are a little light right now so we need to start another war so we can sell the poor slobs our military madness with profits rising again, I think I will build myself a fortress away from our oceans rising and have my black-water soldiers 

surround my home to protect me and my 6th wife if she behaves herself and doesn’t shop without my consent, myths run rampant giving more to the wealthy than they deserve, for they are not godlike in their everyday activities of making millions of dollars off the backs of their workers here in the US of greed and around the world, creating a growing poverty of the middle class and the already poor, these predators seek worship for their knack of stealing someones hard earned money, we deserve more

these rich personas seek glowing praise for the peanuts they give to charities that they write off as expenses, and they never do the dirty work themselves for they are above the little details of stealing from the people and giving themselves bonuses for they have their designated middle men that hire mercenaries to carry out the vital protection of their assets at all costs what we get for our struggles is the drum beat of death, our lord and protector silent after his sacrifice twenty centuries ago now we must fend

for ourselves in a wasteland of ruthlessness, brutal hate for anyone different in skin and prayer for their mood changes with their profit margins, every million stolen heightens their need for more pain for the worker bees, the horror of lives abandoned to fend for themselves in a violent arena without cause and effect just hate forging its material greed, demanding more profits at the expense of the little people ignorant of their death 

 

 

 

 

April 10, 2022

In being a photographer one must be open to the flow of potential subjects that catch your eye. For there are an infinite display of choices one must fight through before one sees with intuitive eyes his undercover subject demanding to be present.

Our reality is open for business all a photographer has to do is find his purpose for being present in this landscape, cityscape, people oriented, clouds, buildings etc.. all waiting for you to explore openly with feeling and purpose, your mind beginning to see deeper into the subjects present possibilities that will make you open your visual senses and experiment with this particular subject that can give you the training needed to really look in depth internally and externally when dealing with mother nature to find scenes that you ignored previously but now are beginning to see their full potential.

Why think small when you are making images that you find extraordinary and demand your full attention and time to unfold the potential subject when before you just ignored them. Each subject you come upon has the infinite possibilities.

Making photos is more than just clicking your shutter and moving on to your next quick snap shot.

In order to create great photographs you have to let go of your previous photo-cliches and immerse yourself in the landscape anticipating changing light, knowing what shutter speed will work the best, your tripod ready, peoples expressions beginning to unfold, still life close-ups, long exposures, waterfalls all present before you, your visual senses beginning to narrow ones intuitive force seeking a unification of the scene as you slow down and begin to see the image evolving into a color extravaganza, highlighting mother nature as the sun sets and your eyes opening to a spectacular sky with a dramatic landscape.

 

 

 

March 14, 2022

Manipulations of the Herd

Like bees to honey we all congregate around a scene that is attracting viewers. Sometimes this particular angle is the best advantage view but other times if you move away from the herd and use your intuition you can usually find a perspective that is unique and personal only for you.

We are small creatures with misguided ego’s and exaggeration of our self-worth. We seek a structured existence and that makes it easier for the psychopaths to climb the ladder of self-interest ahead of those that see the world for what it is corrupt and are trying to do something about it but getting nowhere because our government and our courts have been bought by the good old american wealth that feel it is above them to pay taxes for making millions in hour increments while the working stiffs pay more in taxes than the wealthy for their tax shelters and their off shore accounts are hidden under the code of respectabilty. And they complain about the government, how free enterprise would create a better system of income, oh yeah! for the oligarchs and their greedy vision of no taxation on themselves for they are the leaders of this polluted land and enjoy their spring, summer, fall and winter vacations on their yachts and island hopping with their co-conspirators of baiting, switching and manipulating their tax books to reveal how hard it is for them to make a few million a day, oh poor me, I must get back to work, I need to spend a little more time in the sauna with all this stress of income taxes and oh that is right I don't pay any but I know someone who does and hates it just like all of us and those someones are my maid, my cook, house cleaner etc...

In today’s misrepresentation of power as truth giving freely to the poor, the lower middle class is a crock of shit, they don’t give anything away freely so they have their favorite charities to give to during christmas and it is a tax write off for they could careless about trying to save people living in squalor and starving!

And even as we speak the rich have raised gas prices and are making attempts to expand their drilling for oil around the world, one last push to totally pollute mother earth our once symbol of hope.

And as the ticker rises showing more and more people can't earn a living wage they are ignored for wealth doesn’t register empathy toward others that are not made of the same sociopathic tendencies that made them rich.

The paid politicians spouting off nonsense to confuse the populace into thinking the rich are not the culprits but protesters demanding a decent wage for their hard earned work.

Give me a break, are people that dense that they can’t make up their own minds seeing and hearing these lies from bought and sold politicians working not for us but for the 1%.

The propaganda machine was created in the early 70’s to fight the growing force of the united states workers beginning to realize their lives were getting destroyed as these men and women of money began sending their manufacturing jobs over seas for these countries had slave labor, paying them peanuts for 16 hour days.

These slick hipsters, con artists, ego maniacs created a false narrative and then spread it out over America and around the world that it was getting to expensive in the United States to keep paying our workers a good decent income, and some of the working force actually turned a blind eye and forced themselves to believe in these crooks evil lies and of course the  multinational corporation that are never satisfied with their amount of wealth are always demanding more, more and more as they systematically destroy this planet with their foul pollution of selfish greed.

The weak minded are their servants of propaganda as these hypocrites with a price on their heads, try to make it easier for the billionaires to choose the ones most depraved that will mouth untruths about anything the wealthy put in their hands to read.

Theses puppets of shame would even bad mouth their own family's heritage, their grandparents, parents, wives, husbands and children if the price was right.

Weak minded men and women, mice looking for any leftover cheese, for they fear the power of the wealth, so this allowed the criminal minds to create an illusion of freedom, an illusion that anyone can make it big in the USA of Criminality, they gave away all of our liberties through our American history to the land owners of slaves, then the industrial giants, then the Military Industrial Complex, and then the crooks turned bankers and wall street scammers.

Their own selfish narrow personalities as the hipster is described in Norman Mailer's "The White Negro." "But to be with it is to have grace, is to be closer to the secrets of that inner unconscious life which will nourish you if you can hear it, for you are then nearer to that God which every hipster believes is located in the senses of his body, that trapped, mutilated and nonetheless mega maniacal God, who is It, who is energy, life, sex, force, It, God, not the God of the churches but the achievable whisper of mystery within sex, the paradise of limitless energy and perception just beyond the next wave of the next orgasm. To which a cool cat might reply, "Crazy, man!"

These ego's of greed, avarice and wealth are the domineering force controlling our lives today. During the 70's the wealthy began hating and plotting against a government they said was stealing their money which was a lot of hot air for they were stealing our lives, our taxes, our money, with pollution, racism and wars!   

We exist to conform to the standards of our peers. And, also, to conform to large ego's. Ego's that don't conform to anyone but his/hers special abilities to control the minds of other's through their intellect that believes in the rules set down through our history, that conformity is good, we all must conform to the standards set up through the ages, the exploitation by moneyed interests that have set a high standard for deceit and by manipulating the thoughts of others with the redundant threat that some of these agitator's are totally antisocial, anti-business, and only want to disrupt the economy of the nation but more importantly their profits.  

Unique, honest voices in this world are protesting the demise of the entire planet, populations of this mother earth are unique independent voices coming together in the fight against pollution that is destroying the earth and the none stop wars created just for profits. 

These egocentric beings of greed and their controlling force of government will exploit the lives of the innocent for their own personal gain. Any hint of a rebellion and criticism against these all powerful gods of influence, your name will be dragged through the tabloid mud.

Each generation starts out thinking they are independent but that is an illusion. We all get assimilated into the larger role of societies need for control and by managing the populace with misinformation that dulls the truth of reality they are presently living in with the misconception that they are living the American dream. 

We have been bamboozled to not trust our unique, individual thoughts and perceptions. Our absolute need for independent thoughts that motivate us to become more than the herded sheep unable to break free from the chains of conformity, losing their unique voice, silent, while others faithfully attempt to show the world that the richest families on this planet control everything except when you can use your bathrooms. 

These unnatural formula's are concocted for one purpose and only one purpose and that is to sell you on a product you don't need. Media is the channel that wants to control your emotions and narrow your thoughts to focus only on the material greed growing worldwide and stimulating their profits. 

If reality is a distraction then isn't it quite possible that you are being conformed to a lifestyle of simple answers to big questions.

As your mind is being poisoned to not think, you must begin to look up the fake answers that someone else has written in order to dupe you into false beliefs. 

Be smart don't believe anything on social media or from research groups that have been paid to confuse issues through counterattacks by putting a little bug in your ear of doubt towards what you know personally to be true. Don't be fooled go experience the truth first hand. 

Hand me down thoughts, fears and anger are manipulating you to ignore your own experiences and your own intuitive truth. 

Your intellect will go along with the herd because the intellect likes order and conformity in life but you will never get to your own inner revelations unless you use your own faculties to find your truth.

Our minds are under attack, forcing us to conform to voices manipulating the truth with stage performances of fear, anxiety and doubt, guiding us into the mind cages they made to inhibit the truth from being present in our lives.

Do we exist to accept the forces of external power, words of authority, that move us in a direction that our intellect determines will become our new role in the interaction with the herd and our placement will become an integral intersection of regrets and backward thinking placating the minds of those that couldn’t break free from the all controlling eyes of the ruling class?

Our minds are being dulled to not look for answers on our own but through the channels that are controlled by the 1%, for if we woke up from the illusion of freedom, we would be horrified to find what has become of our own inner strength and vision we once had for ourselves in our youth of infinite possibilities.  

We need to be free to make our own choices and not have to listen to paid voices telling us what we should and shouldn't become.

These moneyed interests are there for your benefit, for you will be part of the exciting working class with no possibility of escape or moving up a ladder of success that has been broken since the beginning of America.

Your mind needs to be trying out new ideas and new ways of becoming an independent person, a force of one, to live a life you choose rather than live a life the wealthy demand of us. We are not servants for the few, we are free to make our own lives and create our own futures without moneyed interests deliberately blocking our path with wars, climate change, poverty, and pitting cultures against each other to keep populations distracted from the truth of their lies through manipulation, through keywords that instill in the ears of some hatred and bigotry.

 

 

 

February 21, 2022

Once Upon A Time

Once upon a time photography was a unique form of expressing yourself but now it seems that image creation is just a product, a snap shot and not a revelation of your inner world turned inside out for all to see.

Where is your foundation of incentive to create imagery that will inspire those trying to climb up the ladder of success, images that have power in themselves, they stand alone as a mystery, a marvel of inner longing, inner peace, inner hope?

But the big question now is it worth the effort to travel and spend your hard earned money to get to places that you have an intuitive expectation that your images once, upon a time, would make you thousands of dollars but now your effort will get you no where but in the photographer’s poor house, as the RF mega agencies take and take some more as the photographers stand down and refuse to send images to these photo agencies that used to sell your images for hundreds, thousands of dollars step down and create imagery for their own personal websites.

What we have now is photography without depth, character and a deep reflection of the image creator’s inner being, there are just too many images being taken with shallow compositions and exposures, a surface reflection of another's hard fought work, you must have motivation to travel and you must have a personal need not to just create a photograph but an image with inner depth that opens your eyes and your viewers.

Image creation is more than just clicking the shutter it is a real life experience, it is being engulfed in mother nature’s world, it is like entering a fantasy land of pure beauty and recognizing that you have found what you have been looking for, a connection with something bigger and more powerful for you to grasp fully.

In photography you have those revelations of the insight and love of life that you are surrounded in.

Photography is a visual message from your inner self, each image created represents your inner feelings, your intuitive objective becoming visually reflected in the image you will be creating, your inner purpose in photography is finding your intuitive perspective, discovered through your intense visual senses as you study your subject getting closer and closer to the composition that will express your bonding with the landscape before you.

Represented not as a shoot and go subject but a subject that you identify with on a deeper level than just taking a snap shot, the scene is beyond words, a melding of your photographic skills to dig deeper in the process of going beyond physical demands of the scene into a new world of empathy for all life on earth, a vision thought of but now present in front of you, the camera is secondary, separate yourself from the mechanical click of your shutter and persevere to find the natural light that will express, enhance your unique style, your tenacity to see the hidden beauty waiting for your recognition and demanding representation of your unique photography.

Photography is more than just a mechanical machine that does everything for the shooter, you must put away the need to push the shutter before your visual intensity has found the right components that you will build on to express a unique feeling that was hidden but now ready to make an image now perceived.

All imagery made are unique in some ways and you have to be savvy and change your approach to different subjects, being prepared is the best advice you will be given, don’t automatically start taking snap shots, stand back, think and feel the scene before you, your image uniqueness will come when you begin looking deeper into the landscape and going over in your mind how you will handle your subject through composition, light, and exposure for these will determine your success or failure, everything in its place, timing is your effort to approach a subject that you see the potential before you, making an image now is just a matter of standing your ground, putting time behind you and begin your steady pace toward a composition that expresses your inner vision.

In making images one must be aware of his/her surroundings and not allow a narrow perception to be your standard operating procedure or you will miss the true light that was hiding behind you.

There are deeper meanings to a subject than just surface qualities, your perception of a scene whether it be an object, person, landscape, city life, portraits you name it is just the beginning of your photography career, your task is to ignore all the critics and allow your inner voice direct you to bond with your subject, going deeper into the underlining meaning of its existence.

If you are just having fun taking photos and enjoy being in nature, in the city, on a boat, climbing mountains, go for it, but always be ready, for every once in awhile you will actually make a wonderful image where the light, composition and exposure were absolutely faultless, enjoy those moments and who knows this might spur you on to take classes and improve your inner visual senses, to create even better images. 

 

 

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.