Hallucinogen

 

Make your mind twirl, entirely detracted from the vacuum of a devoid mind.

Renegade

Look at this tree, its such a renegade, deviating from the norm. Instead of growing its leaves at the top, it wants to keep them at the bottom and leave branches bare.  How dare this tree try to be an individual, how dare this tree not be like all the other normal trees. How dare this tree be an individual.

There is wisdom in this tree, I like this tree. 

Two Different Axles

Rock Bottom:

You’re at wits end with nowhere else to go, no one to turn to in times of despair, depression, no one to express you feelings to.

Rock bottom is the increasing desire to not live anymore.

Rock bottom is constant failure without learning from those mistakes.

Rock bottom is falling into a bottomless pit, continuing to scream to no avail and nobody to throw you a rope to get back up.

Standing Strong like a Rock:

Never being afraid to take on a challenge.

Standing strong is not letting any outside influence imped your progress.

Standing strong is being an individual.

Standing strong is just living life to your greatest potential and milking it for all that it is worth.

 

Matrix in my Mind

Going out to photograph is like being frozen in time. Being sensitive to the world around and discovering all the minute details in everything.

Tragedy My Masterpiece

Inside corrosion, paramount fear, tragedy, danger, denial, lies, DEATH as the equal ender. You would think I’m talking about the effects of smoking and yes, that is part of it. I’m talking about all the things that could cripple an individual.  Constant procrastination, cheating, drugs, gang affiliation, bad habits. This is just a small sample size of intertwining activities that can cripple a person from the inside out. In the beginning it probably feels o.k, but the constant doing can lead to death as the equal ender. Death as gone, death of your career, death of your mind, death leaving you a lifeless individual. Your tragedies eventually become masterpieces in the sense of me being able to talking about it, in a sense of how can you let this happen.

Further Light

Three separate light in the casino.  These are regular light but what drew me to take these pictures was the design of the lights and the angle that I took them from. I kept in mind the rule of thirds when taking these pictures being that there is a lot of white space. For example, the second photo, I made sure the light was in the upper right corner because it would be bland just sitting in the middle. Being in that position create an atmosphere around the white space because of the shadow from the light. You see the bright circle around the light and the dark shadows that follows.  Everything plays a role from the light to the lines in the wall.

In the first picture, there is a lot going on for such a straight forward photo. Three things abstraction, angle of view and light and shadow. I took this picture from the bottom of the light to give of the light and shadow. I had to take this picture at the right time to show the dark areas because the actual area was bright, but when I focused it made the  surrounding area dark. The abstraction does not come from the picture itself but the mind behind the person taking it,me. If you look closely at the lines in the light it looks like a human like figure. To me, its like a spiritual type of figure.