July 12, 2023

Everyone is a poet, novelist, painter

and a photographer what we don't

understand is that wealth now takes,

dominates your abilities to make

images and then sells them in volume.

Making images used to be a job

worthy of your income, excitement at 

seeing your photograph on a billboard 

or in a magazine, there was a sense of 

beauty and longevity in your image 

creations now all you receive for your

hard work is pennies on the dollar.

In the old days photography was 

immersing yourself into a reality that

sees your inner vision materializing.

Photography now is not an art form

it is a copy machine where the

photographer's are creating products

to sell, there is no depth in imagery

today just quick surfaces posing as

copycat scenes.

Photography is more than just snap 

shots of a reality twisted with dangerous

climate disasters, and our income, our

money doesn't go to the photographers

on an equal bases, back when it was

a 50/50 proposition and everyone was

happy, now 99% of our images go to

the masters of greed while we receive

peanuts!!

The parade of photo images are just

people enjoying the chance to make

pics with some kind of deliverance,

who cares if they never get the big 

bucks and you never will for now all

go into the pockets of greed!

Photography once was a means of 

creating from your heart iconic

landscapes, portraits, sports, track,

football, baseball, basketball .......

but now you don't make enough 

money to do any photography 

except for your ideals for these

Getty's of greed could care less

concerning your life for they only

care about their wealth and power!

Why there wasn't a union to protect

our livelihood, our hard earned

images traveling all over the globe!

We have moved radically away from

photography as an art form and made 

it into a corporate's ideal of selling

products in volume, once digital

steamed, rolled over film b/w and

color, there was no use trying to

be an independent artist expressing 

you inner ideal perceptions now lost!

You shoot digital, you don't need any

intuitive relationship with a scene, 

shoot quick and move on for when

you upload images on to your computer

you can correct any flaws such as 

bad colors and compositions.

Deception, manipulation, technology

creating human characteristics as if 

real, another lessening of our abilities

to make great portraits for soon we

will be left in the dirty dust unleashed

undermining a photographers belief

in his future!

We are drawn now to a fast paced life,

what we have learned is that taking 

images now is repetition not looking

deep into a impressive scene but just

a quick snap shot should to the trick,

what do we learn making images when

we begin to see our own inner vision!

The aging process makes you feel you

are slowly being taken away, fear is your

overriding need to create words and

images for your children and grandchildren

describing your early photography and your

constant revelations of potential subjects!

Think before you make and image, reinterpret

a scene in a new and original way, contextual 

clues creating new framing that will bring out

your intuitive understanding of light and your

concept beginning to unfold. Mother nature

invites the observer to impart new meaning

to a scene by your full appreciation of sunlight,

composition, sunset and your awareness of

nature's beauty and your presence enjoying

the here and now without interruptions!!

July 9, 2023

Photography Needs Help

images of the masses are repetitive

subjects that are lazily redundant and

cliche without depth of classic iconic

images that once were made by the

great photographers of our past, 

present and hopefully our futures

when creating images their are many

possibilities to find those subjects that

you feel represent your inner interests

and catch your eyes, and you mind

turns to get a better look at the landscape

unfolding in a beautiful sky, fluffy clouds

and dramatic barns as you travel through

small towns in eastern washington,

 

and finding yourself stopping along a

highway and see in the distance a beautiful

dramatic subject with possibilities so 

you stop bring out your gear and set up

you camera tripod as you begin a deeper

revelation of the mountains and the 

dramatic composition that will lead your

viewer into a wonderful photograph that

the artist felt the potential and the beautiful

growing sunset light which gave you the

 

necessary foundation to wait patiently as

your subject opened its beauty and your

 

composition created a dramatic, wonderful 

landscape of mother nature at her best

July 13, 2023

Criminal Minds

humans have not evolved

very far from their animal

behavior, anger, jealousy,

envy, hate, criminality,

stealing, lusting, killing,

polluting, lying, cheating,

destroying, murdering, 

losing, pleading, demanding,

selling drugs, climate

destruction, wealth, tornados,

hurricanes, tsunami, violence,

power, slavery, religion....

we seek the same thing

we sought with our spears

and rocks and that is

powerful control over others

instead of being in the hierarchy

of the tribe we seek power in

business as our controlling 

force that feeds our ego's as

others' do what they are told

and they give the power's that

be kudo's of their corruptions

and we now see the facade of

wealth as not wise but selfish in

their instinctive demands, minds

of genius in industry but what

they truly feel is jealousy, 

facades of insecurity demanding

praise and respect from all the

peons around this planet that they

own, and we the people must keep

our eyes on the ground as we

pass these giants of greedy selves

and we know they are just as 

human as us but without the caring

for other human beings, for they

learned early in their lives from

their father and mother the advantage

of being pushy, aggressive, unfeeling

to take what is not yours, to destroy

what is known to compete with your

products to ignore the poor and

homeless, maybe giving them 

something near christmas as they

get their names in the paper for

their generosity, contributing to

a particular pet charity that caught

their eye as they were destroying 

jobs and cutting the hourly rages

of the working stiff, 

we the rich are always aggressive

in our attacks on competition, on

people protesting to keep their 

rights and their lands

for we beings of animal lust still

hunt our prey but this time we use 

laws we the rich created to protect

us from being sent to jail for we are 

the power's that be, kings and queens

of the past, present and our futures

and we created a god's existence for

the people, they have been corralled

for 1,000's of years to believe in all

manner's of god's until the religious

fanatics created jesus christ to placate

the human race to obey their god and 

their priests of sociopathic tendencies, 

and this keeps humans humbled waiting

for the day god will return from where

who knows, and lift the human race up

to the heavens as the wealthy just 

laugh and enjoy the comedy of churches

more corrupt than the titans of industry

 

July 5, 2023

what is your purpose on this speck of dust

called a planet that is travelling through the

solar system amongst billions of planets in

an ever expanding universe that brings us 

closer to our needed revelation of visitors

not gods but an advanced space craft that

would if attacked by our gluttony for rockets

in deadly wars, could destroy this small 

gluttonous planet without thinking twice

for we are conditioned in being young in

years to act a certain way, to dress accordingly,

to accept the truth of our aging, our desire

to prop up the wealthy as our leaders of

powerful demands when we the worldwide

props that work until ill or dying from

polluted air and crushing tornado's destroying

our future because they, our owners need 

more cash from the peons that do the dirty 

work and are paid pennies on the dollar

July 1, 2023

the fruitless whimpering,

a loss of one's stature

for good or bad we all

adapt to our attempt to

move beyond those that

feel abandoned without

any means of escape for

now all we desire is a 

way to move beyond those

corralled living in a backdrop

of hope but no hope is 

present, you will not move

up the ladder of power but

stay in your blind lost

corral where there is no

demands acknowledged

for the powers that exist

behind curtains where you

only hear their voices angry

without morals for very few

rise to the camouflage of

wealth for most lie on the 

street wondering where 

does life begin again and

when did life care about

living in stagnant air, your 

breath dying from polluted

greed while the rich thirst

for more and more profits

 June 27, 2023

symbols create a network of ideas

while neglect uses the conscious

to measure ones stamina to find

a means of escaping the 1% and

their torturous greed, we don't 

live life anymore we live in a growing

fear based reality taking away our

ability to make a purpose for oneself

without being demonized by egos

seeking to break apart ones future

-----

without mercy years swiftly pass

evaporating our unclaimed goals

once necessary now put aside as

one tries to focus his mind beyond

the growing fear of being demonized

by egos of hate, our memories lack

details exaggerating our common

pride with rusty aging, our memories

slip on mossy rocks with water falls

swift currents and forgets the voice

-----

aching to remember friends or foe

in our youth we had plans for our 

future, what we wanted to be when

older, baseball star, basketball icon,

a track star, no one could ever catch

our future and who we became, a 

counter worker selling watches and

we rarely remember our youthful

dreams, we acknowledge our misery

a choice accepted as we feal like a

-----

wilting flower dying before it blooms

a secret inner acceptance despising

being born into a dying world used

by wealth but built by slaves since

the beginning of time, my eyes heavy

staring inward into an empty space

a dream once known now forgotten

how does one break free from a life

that would have made since a decade

earlier, we seek present moments to

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keep and not allow our visions to break

apart and evaporate, he leans against

the railing head lowered, his thoughts

journey over the belligerent past and

those that assume one is different just

being human, with past mistakes taken

for granted, a means to live without fear

the crows angry tongue sharp voices 

yelling in madness, sounds of a domestic

dispute, anger's devilish partner words

-----

that enter the brain demanding attention

seeking vengeance through a weakness 

that realization lacks necessity, what is 

fulfillment but a revelation that being alive

is enough, the person they praise never

existed at all, a changeling without a

character, his face red with drink, his

evil power over an innocent boy 

June 26, 2023

End Of Days

I sit staring at the waves crashing

over the weak cement, the air has

been taken, what remains is a deadly

force, boats put ashore, homes leveled

winds gaining momentum as lives are

lost, as the destruction moves on to 

the next city, the next farm leveling

everything in its path, prayers are not

heard as families return feeling heart

broken, their homes gone, mother nature

is making a stand deciding to join 

storms with an extra push as people

retreat into a planet aged with wealth

lying to the people that we have nothing

to worry about for these ruthless

criminal minds know our future is dying

but their greed is their addiction and

profit over human beings is their 

demanding character for all now is

being lost and words and actions are

meaningless for the rich are treacherous

that spread from the 1% their cunning

which is just an over the top party

heading for the end of days

June 24, 2023

I don't seek other's insights

into our corrupt america for

for we all know who gets

battered with lost wages for 

we are low paid human beings

struggling to pay our college

payments but losing ground

as the rich smile and demand

the money be paid in time or

else a large fine will appear

on your billing statement, 

look at the reduction of our

freedom, our rights taken

away, our job loses, our 

destructive weather as homes

are tossed around like toys

and without insurance your 

home is destroyed twice

once by the tornado and then

again when you realize your 

home is gone by the destructive

force of the 1% that could care-

less if people die, cities wiped-out

but these crooks are satisfied when

they get their millions on a daily basis

taking from the poor and enjoying 

their selfish, hypocritical caring for others

 

 June 20, 2023

Truth An Illusion

we reach for just once to open

our minds to the realization that

we too are deep in unanswered ideas

that will drain us of any hopes of

freedom in a life now rotting without

better wages and jobs worth working,

the 1% have no moral's for they are only

addicted to money and power, these

animals of lust have been through

the maze of lost will and love that

all the wealthy must fight through, 

some ask when the rich have their 

parties how much do they care about

opening their minds to face the horror

of their investments, the killing of 

mother nature and the destruction of

our words of hope, love and understanding

for it has been since the beginning of 

time profits are more important than 

lending a helping hand to those that 

are fighting to be free from the power of

the oligarchs evil nature as we slide

away from life and caring for others

 June 18, 2023

seeking our wisdom delivered to

us in the mail box

-----

collections demanding payment

you don't have

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one of manly side shows seeking

distractions to fit a noose around

------

your neck we seek escape with no 

place to hide

-----

we have nothing to give them

only voices turning away

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aggressive threats, loss of wages

the pressure moves us forward

-----

their demands unnerving reminders

of our shallow predictive life

------

lost in our maze of excuses, anxiety

keeps one up at nightfall

-----

car lights move on the ceiling 

passing overhead and disappear

-----

prayers foolish needs answered

with silence

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the truth is never fixed, it wabbles

back and forth until one tries

-----

to change the legality of bribery

one seeks a positive

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mood even though ones child

goes hungry

 June 16, 2023

lessons lost, time a barrier between 

openness now jealous anger for all 

was to be present with our father of

mysterious hate and a son needing 

to give his life for others that were

-----

already seeing the best ways to take

money, property and peoples lives

for our journey has its up and downs

but we have one goal in this taking

of others fear that life as we created

-----

it is without mercy for their are

billions of stragglers dying to bring

forth their madness and hate for other

people trying to fight back against

racists evil as our lives are constant

-----

loneliness living their doctrine of belief

as our lives are under constant attacks 

as we sink deeper into a phony means of 

escape for our only awareness in this 

catastrophic misguidance is to worship

----- 

only those that we accept for their is 

nothing stopping us from controlling this 

entire mother earth through wealthy 

deceptions of accepting their godly power 

of breaking us into pieces of vulgar faith

June 13, 2023

the wind moves steady 

gaining speed as homes

are destroyed, cars

piling on each other as 

the telephone poles 

break apart as flooding

washes, breaks apart

people trapped without

a means of escape, each

of us have our own ideas

of becoming smarter than

the next person for we

sneak in little steps seeking

the power and money we

are owed, these manipulations

are our normal lives that

hold this corrupt planet of

crooks together, for when

the elites of greed demand

more, more and more property,

more cash, more inner realizations

that the oligarchs are our new 

god's and they want to be 

praised for all the effort they

performed while traveling with

friends on their wonderful

yachts, their islands of peaceful

robber barons for us low lives

are now aware of the hypocrisy

of the wealthy as our saviors

when the truth is they have 

no morals, no desire to help

anyone but themselves for all 

is never enough in their greedy eyes

 July 8, 2023

leave voices screaming

power seeks easy targets

far beyond your little steps

reach outward for a sign

what brings tears to your

eyes, breaks apart those in

prayer, death is the congested

beginnings, thoughts can open 

ones mind or thoughts can 

close ones simple lies, why

do we fear our aging minds

we lose our ability to begin

again stranded without a means

of escape, we have become

shallow minds placated to be

servants of the rich, each day

redundant words, hold us back

from the truth, we are not seeking

power over prayers, the reality

that hinders trying to cut the

forces of evil spreading outward

they move toward all those that

have power over this world

built around perverted gods of

grandeur over innocence each 

searching for a sign of those that

have dead minds just living in

a quagmire of violence and hate

toward anyone perceived different

than those that love conformity, money,

murderous addiction and of course

wars of devilish happiness for

we all know man's truth, killing

is our way toward power over hope 

 June 9, 2023

photography was once a means of 

escaping your dull life, 

making images at first didn't impress

your vision of beauty

but as you emersed yourself into the

focusing of your camera toward

things that caught your idea's as you

began understanding 

possibilities, the separation of your

insights blossoming

becoming insightful, images that

had potential, promise but

didn't have your focused attention

when you saw the beginning

light that began to move over the

landscape that felt like home

as you waited patiently for mother

nature to do her magic as she

kept moving forward and I began

to understand the potential

and where was the best advantage 

point to set up my tripod

you followed nature's lead as you saw

beauty everywhere, rock 

structures as sunset took place and

the colors of the clouds

magnified the beauty before you, and

your patience as you looked 

out over the valley below as mother

nature excepted your presence

for your desires to create a masterpiece

of mountain heights

what beauty, exciting everyone if

you keep alert and use 

your inner intuition to forge ahead in a

wonderland of beautiful 

possibilities, colors of a rainbow over

our beautiful sunset and sunrise

June 3, 2023

The Ending

sitting silent without thoughts

wondering what is a life afraid,

desperation is a word of despair

for these men and women of greed

owning billions of dollars from

people's hard earned income

what glorious thoughts human

have when they have been

born into families that only care

about their stolen fortunes taken

off the backs of those struggling

just to survive in a fearful reality

for those 1% own this spec of 

dust for they think only of themselves

their unwillingness to help, beyond

our broken down mother earth

as we slowly move faster and faster

move surely closer to the cliff of

a lost world with savages murdering

men, women and children all in the

glory of god's rejection of a planet that

has only one goal, vicious cruelty

of human beings that live in despair for

our god is only a wish to believe in, 

when you should believe in yourself not

an illusion of a heavenly father, for our

beliefs for centuries were created by 

powerful wealth to placate the struggling

people caught up in a mirage of a paradise

ready to open once you put cash in the basket