The Soul

A great image can make your mind go back to a place and time where you may have a feeling or the essence of something in your past. And the experience of your reflection feels like a long lost old friend that has returned, if only for a fleeting moment.

Great photographers know they must push for that something extra, that difference that will make their images connect to the viewers. It's not about competition; it's not about money, it's about communicating a feeling.

I feel art, if honestly and passionately perused will teach artist about them. They will go through the stages of buying equipment; learning techniques, emulating other artist, but eventually, while in pursuit of their vision, will return full circle to themselves. The artist might ask themselves, "what is it about me, that I perceive a thing the way I do"?

The journey towards creating our art is the teacher, imagery is the communicator, and the message is from The Soul.

David is a NC based photographer. View website here.

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Master Mind

Two essences of life with color and complementing colors giving great presence. Seeing the beauty mirroring into the water reminds me of  something I read in Napoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" he called it the POWER OF THE MASTER MIND.

If you don't know it, this is some very powerful stuff. To explain it in the  simplest terms, it's Team Work on steroids. I'll define teamwork as, when everyone on the team is willing to subordinate themselves for the better of the team.

Fine Art Photographers or any other business won't see their full potential by themselves. There are a lot of  areas in business that needs attended to with excellence to be successful. When you have your team, working to the extent of creating a Master Mind affect, your success will be unstoppable. To quote Napoleon Hill, "The Master Mind may be defined as: Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose."

Marketing people call this networking. When you network, you should be trying to find individuals for your Master Mind in mind. And you'll find it doesn't take very many. Usually two or three other people working subordinately together towards the teams success while bringing their individual strengths to the table, and you'll find your magic formula and power.

Personally I think the first person on your team if you have one is your partner in life. What they bring to the table, even though you may not physically see it, should be highly appreciated.

So be careful who you hang with, and do business with, if you want to be successful and become aware of your Master Mind.

David is a NC based photographer. View website here.

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"Think and Grow Rich"

Confusion

This image of the West Virgina Captial building reminds me a little of the systemic confusion in our government.

Photographers can be challenged with  genres. There are the Fine Art Landscape photographers that have focused on just landscape and  then when faced to make a living they need similar skills in a different genre that will sell perse'. A good example is when someone has mastered one genre, i.e., landscape and then need comparable skills in people portrait photography.

It's a matter of paradigm. The challenge is bringing the best of what a photographer does into all of their work, regardless if it's landscape,  people portrait, fashion, etc. It's not a far reach once the photographer has cleared the confusion of what is needed to get clients.

Seeing is seeing, and if the heart of the photographer is into what they are doing, genre shouldn't keep them from having the ability to accomplish a more commercial task.

If you have a hobby of making Fine Art Landscape images and thinking about becoming more commercially viable, it's simply a matter of clearing the confusion and getting out and making the images with that same magic you have in one genre and include it in another genre.

David is a NC based photographer. View website here.

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Out of The Matrix

Where does the road lead when it's raining? That is a question that we all have to answer one time, or another.

When you are caught up in a job, project, relationship that you know doesn't feel right, do you have the capacity to realize it? When the rain is pouring down and you're just not happy, can you see the road leading to someplace that others may think would be insane to follow?

As for the art photographer, the question isn't have you experienced these things, but do you have the ability to think outside of circumstances and the world's influence on you?

Remember you do have a choice. Great fine art photographers learn to trust their vision. Sometimes it's hard to go out on a limb and be true to yourself creating art the way you visualize it. It may take effort to learn the tools you'll need, but most of all, you'll need the courage to step "Out of The Matrix" to express your own personal vision.

David is a NC based photographer. View website here.

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