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.

 

 

 

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.