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.

 

 

January 14, 2022

 

Photo Blog

 

you feel numb when something

you enjoy is taken away, not the

act of making images but being

paid almost nothing for your travels

 

and you are supposed to enjoy the

low prices and still make a good living

as you go into bankruptcy, I will always

make images, I just won’t send them

 

to these corporate buffoons, these

greedy business men and women that

think they know how to manipulate

the photographers, by praising their

 

images and then stealing their income,

they have lowered the bar to the floor,

you can’t go any lower but wait these

corrupt agencies know how to jockey

 

the books, sharing the proceeds of

your artistic skills with other corporate

giants for all the wealthy love to partake

equally of others hard earned work, they

 

praise your efforts building up your

ego and then give you nothing for your

efforts or I should say they give you

nothing but a fear of losing faith in your

 

talent as a photographer and their pay

scale is laughable if it wasn’t so diabolical

as they have open house parties for the

elites to ponder their next scam on the

 

photographer in their million dollar homes

and pat each other on the back at their

good business practices giving 80% to

themselves for they have worked hard to

 

screw the image creator, this scam of

obedience, this herded cattle ignorance

of their demise to make something of

their lives through photography as they

 

sink into anger and then despair, yes,

you are getting the shaft, taken for a ride

on the corrupt pony show that can give

you a clearer idea of how the rich use the

 

very people that made them wealthy, now

dismiss you as just another photog

demanding more for his travels and time

creating great images that the agency is

 

selling for almost nothing, we photographers

have been discarded, scammed, thinking

these mega agencies were for us the

photographers but we should have realized

 

that photographs, videos are a dime a dozen,

a commodity that bases income for the elites

on volume, period! I feel these charlatans,

the owners, investors and banks should stick

 

their heads in the sand for their corrupt nature

of exploiting new photographers that don’t

have a clue how big business has only

one priority and that is profits over people.

 

 

December 8, 2021

Photo Blog

We are coming apart without an honest vision of hope, separated from our unique inner life through manipulation, our addiction to material gain.

This is our new ritual of living a life under the thumb of mega photo agencies that don’t care about higher prices but rely on bulk sales, for volume is their key to success and our demise as photographers able to earn a decent living.

When you look at the mega agencies and there dominance in the stock image business you begin to get nervous at your inability, your silence to demand higher prices for your hard earned travels, making great images now are basically worthless, money for-profit only photo agencies that take the money from the photographers that submit their images that sell on these mega-agencies websites by using RF images as their con-game, their bait and switch, as if RF is superior to Right Managed for the photographers income, it isn’t even close!

The new photographers are just trying to get on board with any photo-agencies not realizing the scam is already in place, for your images will sell for pennies on the dollar, think about that, your image prices are meager and are sold in bulk, which means you and other photographers are being scammed, for you receive individually small token payments of your image you worked on for hours while the agencies make millions off their bargain basement volume sales, leaving the image creator broke without a chance of making a living off his efforts, for the photographers are just pawns in a chess game easily taken and abandoned for the investors and the corporations that use stock images feel that photography is no longer respected as an art but now looked upon as a product, a commodity to be sold in quantity and of course your paychecks reflect the disintegration of a once inspiring way to get your images on the cover of magazines, ads, newspapers etc….and make a decent living off your original photographic creations.

We all seek these precious moments that enhance our ability to see a potential images and to be attracted to the overall scene with purpose as we transition from novice to a professional.

The close relationships between experienced photographers and those just starting out is such a positive influence on your ability to make images more powerful and unique.

But ultimately all photographers need to be independent, seeking their own unique sense of style and visual purpose.

What our inner eye is demanding is for us to wake-up and investigate subjects with curiosity,and experiment with what could eventually be your unique style.

Not all image creation is based through your inner perspective, sometimes a subject just appears as a blessing from nature and your instinct takes over to capture the scene in front of you.

As an intuitive photographer you must be prepared to free yourself from the boundaries set up to exploit your talents by the photo agencies telling you what you should shoot and upload.

You must seek more than just a snap shot of the same old subjects that slowly take away your versatility, your visual awareness of what your senses are telling you is a subject worth exploring.

Free yourself from the barriers that are forming, surrounding you with conventional society that exploits your ability to break free from the copycat club and begin experimenting with different subjects in order for you to find your rhythm, your versatile anticipation, your inner reflections of how a scene looks to you, your vision that sees beyond the cliche and digs deeper into the undercurrents of your unique ideas to be expressed through a photographers strong emotion as he experiments with new subjects of importance.

Yes, we have other duties in family life that will interfere with your need to make imagery as much as one would like to but if you are a father, a mother you must separate yourself from your over active instinct demanding you leave for a month long road trip to Arizona to create images of the beautiful red rock formations in Sedona and just be present when your family really needs your presence the most.

Through practice you will enhance your ability to form a frame that will give the viewer of your photograph a new visual insight of what your true interests are whether they be nature, sports, people, clouds, mountain climbing , etc.,. image creation is what your life is all about.

Human beings want to be accepted by the pack animals hiding from their own unique talent. What we think we want is to be part of something bigger than ourselves but you won’t experience your own style of making great images by following the herd.

What we truly seek is freedom of expression, and we must fight the desire to give in to the ant-hill of working a job that leads you nowhere but moody, angry at why you couldn’t break free from the daily grind of a working stiff and move your life beyond money and in to a realm of life experiences, where you are the creator of your outer world expressed through your unique inner vision.

Photography is not a game but a demanding desire of creation by making something of beauty that others can enjoy.

Break free from the cliche’s of stock images and focus your mind on subjects that appeal to your senses, your uniqueness.

But we still fear the powers that be, that want to exploit us for our hard earned efforts. And we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the photo agencies that keep taking more and more of your hard earned efforts and because of the over abundance of new photographers that don’t think it is important to come together and stand up to these men and women of wealth, for they are barriers to our fulfillment of our youthful dreams to be paid a good living wage for your images appearing in well known magazine, newspaper, billboard, sports, architecture, etc ….

Photographers back in the hay-day of unique image creations, their personal images that expressed their inner vision accepted the agencies 50/50 split when selling your images but that was back when the photo agencies were friends and trusted but now there isn’t any chance of having a photographers union that would protect our image creations with a good price demanded by the photo-agency that is selling our work and not leave us standing their in disgust as our photographs are sold in volume to companies that pay in bulk and have access to your work for peanuts.

Barriers to our purpose, joining sides as if this was anything else but a deceiving shell game, the carrot in front of distracted minds, come join our photo agency and earn a good living, yeah right!

The powers that be move in the shadows making what sounds like a good deal for sending your hard earned imagery to one of these mega agencies, but in reality it is just another scam, a used car salesman promising you good returns on your travels, the wealthy take from the poor and give back to their selfish selves.

And as you are assimilated into a facade of hope you realize your intuitive knowledge of what makes a good photograph is someone else’s intellectual property, always check the fine print. Don’t ever give your images away for free!

But without experience young photographers give their images away because their egos just like seeing their own photography used in an ad! an ad that once was worth thousands of dollars and now goes for a whopping $1.00, wow what a sale!!!

What a good photographer needs is an intuitive perception, an understanding of how this wave of stealing money from new artists is the new norm of multimillionaires paying almost nothing to  photographers for their hard earned search for that person, place or thing that made the photographer stop and then immerse themselves into the scene before she found that perfect once in a lifetime composition that satisfied her individuality, her unique perspective and she was certain in her efforts to explore the subject from all sides and choose which angle would make her master-piece.

In today's cell phone camera explosion everyone is a photographer looking for a quick buck and that is what they will get a quick dime for their efforts, these newbies are of course the new wave of talent that thinks these small payments is the way it has always been until they talk with a photographer that have been around the block and lets the new kid on the street know that he and all the other photographers are being taken for a ride where you won’t be able to earn a decent living creating photographs as your main means of income.

But you must keep making images for that is your personal instinct, your well being, which is seeing potential in a scene and then exploring all your possibilities of the subject chosen, for what would a good photographer do if he stopped making great imagery he is proud of, you must always deeply feel your individual hope, slow down, stop and explore a new subject through concentration and vigilance, your never ending desire to keep making photos no matter how bad these agencies steal your hard fought efforts.

Image creation is both visual and personal, it is a means of exploring life first hand, up close and personal, the life you were destined to make.

As our lives move forward and fears grow over the collapse of our entire planet we seek a distraction from our sense of doom but photography is more than just hiding oneself behind a camera, we must also fight the controlling force of a stagnant mind that has lost incentive to dig deeper into mother nature and fight the destructive force of the wealth’s power over us and be willing to fight for your freedom to breath clean air, drink clean water and enjoy nature’s beauty and not her wrath.