JIM'S PHOTOGRAPHY ART   ​

Winters coming, (it's getting harder to find good flowers to photograph).

Nature Photography is like the winds of the weather and we must shift our strategy and adapt and flow with the changing of the seasons....

I took this photo today with my Tamron 85mm f/1.8 Lens.....

I like the vintage image better even though the modern 50mm looks a tad bit sharper. It's not always about sharpness

These older lenses just have a character to them modern lenses can not duplicate......They're all great though in their own way.

My old Harley has been sitting all summer....collecting cobwebs. I was gonna pull it out today and fire it up and take it for a ride but noticed a major leak.

It was at that moment I realized the older I get and the longer I sit around the more I leak too.....

To my father, "StraightArrow"

1934-2009

(this bust used to be his, now I keep it)

May your vision be straight and your path be of the truth forever......in this world and the next....

Our collective reality is becoming extremely distorted at an alarming rate; we have fake news, fake science, fake governments, fake religions, fake education, fake economies, fake genders, fake money, fake people, etc.

Replace "fake" with "false".

We are being forced to live in a false reality.

The sacred feminine was bound in chains centuries ago.

The sacred masculine now becomes chained as her in this dark place, never seeing her face.

Billions are lost and no longer walk the sacred path.

They have black holes in the center of their souls, living within their own wrath.

The Great Divide is not due to a 2 party system or between races, etc., as the fake news demands you too believe; The Great Divide is due to being forced too choose sides between truth and fiction....to choose between of a life of Logic, Reason, and Common Sense or a completely false reality....

Jim Durfee 12-16-2016

I am who I am and what you see and hear from me is part of my medicine.

Be it right or wrong, good or bad, it is what it is and I always try my best to speak and act from my heart with good intentions.

I have walked with the light and embrace it, and I have also walked with darkness and will not deny it.

I will not force one or the other upon you, for I have found truth in both places.

Jim Durfee 5-5-2011

There are some who fear stepping outside of the box and roaming in uncharted territory, in a way you can't really blame them as there are many dark and ugly things one may come across; But it is an illusion believing that staying inside the box will always be safe and a continuously protected environment, free from what is outside the box.

Eventually the outter walls of the box wears thin and crumbles, allowing the outside enviroment in and forcing the inside enviroment out.

The box itself is an illusion and fear is what created it in the first place.

Jim Durfee 5-7-2011

Regardless of how bumpy the trail up ahead may look, do not sell yourself short and turn away when you know in your heart that your destination is just up ahead and beyond those pot holes and ruts. You can possibly delay the inevitable for a short time but you can not make it go away for good when the Great Mystery wants you in a certain place regardless of the obstacles.

Jim Durfee 7-28-2011

Once in a while we find ourselves caught or trapped in a place that has out lived it's purpose, although an "out-dated" place, we remain because it is comfortable or we have become fearful of moving beyond it. These places often create whirlwinds so to speak and cause us to repeat certain cycles and or habits that can sometimes actually be quite damaging or harmful, to ourselves and or others.

In order to break free from these "out-dated" places we must first recognize that we are in them, and then over come the fear or comfort that has caused us to remain there and let go and move away and beyond in to a new place. This is not always easy because we are creatures of habit and when something doesn't seem broken, why fix it? But this is the illusion of these "out-dated" places, they are in a sense broken, sometimes completely broken!

....and if we finally recognize the truth of these places and know we must get a hold of courage to move forward and away from them, it is then that we notice that we have known all along that the screams we have been hearing occasionally in the background were actually the voices in that whirlwind yelling at us to get out of there!

Jim Durfee 11-21-2011

For many, truth is what they fear the most and they believe the truth is the most dangerous and destructive force in their lives. They run and hide from truth like the plague because deep down they know that if they accept the truth that their whole world will be turned upside down and inside out through the truths massive destructive force as it destroys and annihilates all the lies and deceptions that they have grown so accustomed too and comfortable with...not realizing that the truth is trying to save them from being destroyed by the lies and deception that is causing the fear in the first place.

Jim Durfee 12-4-2011

Prophecy does not always require one to have magical or supernatural powers to see in to the future; many "seers" look backwards and can quite accurately predict possible future events due to recognizing cycles and patterns of days gone by and noticing that signs and events happening now speak volumes that one or more of these cycles or patterns are about to repeat or manifest themselves once again in our time or in our near future in some way shape or form. Change is a well known constant to these "seers" but at the same time they also know repeating cycles and patterns often times will produce events that somewhat resemble there past manifestations and cause similar events having somewhat similar results.

Jim Durfee 4-17-2012

The most impressive accomplishment of the greatest levels of genius that mankind has ever crafted is the invention of religious dogmas based on deception, fear, and illusions that causes mass populations to be easily controlled, narrow minded, and narrow thinking ignorant idiots, who, in all truth, are actually intelligent enough to truly understand that they have been trapped, but are too afraid and conditioned to think outside of the box and to believe that there is more beyond the genius invention that has imprisoned them.

Jim Durfee 4-20-2012