If You We're Buying Your Last Art Print....what would it be?

 Most of the art we buy, is hopefully from an artist we have discovered and love their work. Or perhaps one we've bought from before and still love their works. And we do so with some regularity, say once a year or so, or when we redecorate and gift our prior art to another we care about. But have you ever considered, just how important buying each piece really is? And what if it were your last one? Perhaps because of age, your financial position, or because we had no room left on our walls. What would be your last piece of art? 

Crimson Clover Fields

It's an uncommon question, but one which you will make one day, consciously or not. What would it be? Would you go back to your youth to re-generate an almost forgotten era? A childhood memory of sorts? Or a scene from a place your family once visited? Something of sentimental significance?  Perhaps a scene from a family picnic setting, a beach or mountain visit? A field of tulips?

Or a festival of Native Americans?

Native American Chief?

Or it might be a simple and emotionally valuable scene to calm you.

Mountain Moonlight 

Or excite you. 

Rock Face Aglow

Whatever it is allow me to connect you to a place of discovery ..... please enjoy the adventure  my photographic website

Spending Your Money Carefully Counts

 Daily Spending Can Really Add up

Spending our money on daily needs counts, but spending on wants, desires, unnecessary and discretionary items and services is where where we must be most careful. It is astounding what companies have been charging us for these things. If you are young, this is becoming the norm. I ask that you don't let that happen to your phyche, because it should not be the norm. If you are well into your 30's and older you know better. so you are perhaps already schooled in being careful on spending to much for anything.I want to share with you my collection of art, photographic art that is hung on our walls. And I want you to see just how careful I have been in not following the lead of most of companies, and entrepreneurs that have been hell-bent on over-pricing.

You can cut to the chase by linking through to my Website for Photography, or read further.

Just three examples of images and pricing that has not undergone the rapid rise of unaffordable art for your walls. I've kept and will conmtinue to keep my prices within this low range of cost for those buying, upgrading, remodeling homes, and for those renting. We shouldn't shut out from what surrounds us in our homes and apartments, just because of the inflation caused by companies who don't have our best interests in mind. 

Take a look and see for yourself at Rich Collins Art Collections

Consciousness Coupled with Photography Art

 Ever considered how Art affects our Consciousness?

Sit down sometime, maybe now, eyes off your screen(s), awareness on your wall art, and feel the art change your mood. We are capable of launching our consciousness back from the brink of overstimulation and it should gift us with a pleasurable sense. Do not glance, but take it in. This is not meant to be family pictures, but art we have invested in. We chose it, we purchased it for a very special reason. And because we almost never consider viewing our art, de rigeur, we might consider it going forward.

Much has been written about time on our screens, little about the sense we absorb, ingest and assimilate as we commingle with our wall art. There ought to be a lifting of sorts, an uncommon ground with which we find solace, peace, or energy and spirit, with our art. The very reason the art was hung, is to bring to us a feeling that nothing else in our homes, or offices can, nor should. 

If you're feeling it, then you should find it more often. Screens are great for learning, and not so great for feeling it. There are too many distractions. Art is for our feeling, our emotion, our wondrous and most prized mindful regions. And when we focus on what we've hung, perhaps paid for, we find ourselves feeding on the reward levels of serotonin produced by such wonderful works.

If your art is doing it for you, you are one of us who have chosen the art which satisfies. 

However if your art is not doing it for you, then it is time, even if it is difficult, to abandon it, and find pieces that will improve the satisfaction for you. If it is time, don't rest on it, don't put it off, or you'll still be ignoring it years from now. But don't overspend on it. Budget Buy it if need be. That is, spend at a price level you feel is comfortable for your home and all who come to share your home with you. By the way, you won't find my works have gone up one cent since inflation has outpaced your incomes. I feel I have my photography at a fair price point. 

Below I offer a link to some of my works of photography. With this link I hope you find something, perhaps more than one, that can give you what art should give you. 

You can find affordable selections here Photo Art by Rich Collins

if you get a redirect notice, simply tap on the link to the website

Just open your phone camera and click to link to my Photography website

 

 

Apparent Hub Fix for Apple OS 14.4 Update

Having problems with your devices, monitors, keyboards, mice, using a  hub after updating to Apple Sonoma 14.4?

Someone in the Apple Support Community has mentioned that this has helped him, though no one is sure if it will be a permanent fix, but give it a try;

I had the same issue with an LG monitor connected by USB3 -- the mouse plugged into the USB hub on the monitor didn't work after the 14.4 upgrade.

Rebooting, reconnecting wires, etc, didn't help.

However, this worked:

1. System Settings->Privacy&Security->Allow accessories to connect->Ask every time
2. Turn off monitor (at the wall is best) and disconnect it
3. Reboot
4. Reconnect the monitor then turn it on.

At this point I got a popup asking if I agreed to the assessory and I answered yes. Since then the mouse works fine. Hopefully it will stay that way.

Second Thoughts on Photography and Ai

 Should Photography shake hands with AI? 

Good question. A follow up question is, Will AI take the place of Creativity? I am in a place now that suggests, it depends. If one approaches photography, as a creative, that is a creative aspect of their use of a camera, in the development of their creating images, then I don't believe so. However if one is merely flooding the internet with pop up imagery, then yes only because there will be so much of the same it won't really affect creativity.

Take a look at how the very earliest photographic images were taken; images were captured more by experimental means of whatever a lens could imprint and expose simply what was there. No conscious effort was made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in capturing this photo. It exists today exactly as it was taken and was never changed in any creative way. He didn't make any adjustments to it. 

The earliest saved photographic image (Heliograph on pewter plate) from 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, taken at Le Gras, France. Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce#/media/File:Ni%C3%A9pce_Heliograph_1827_Le_Gras.jpg

Thus it has zero creativity and exists only because of a chemical reaction he helped develop.

Fast forward to today, and because of photographic software editing tools, which Photoshop and Affinity offer, these have allowed us to become as creative as we choose to learn to do.

An example from my portfolio Mossy Forest Grove 

So from the capture by Niepce', an example of a paradigm of mere exposure to the softwares available, in addition to our own ability to mindfully imagine a result, and then to tweak to our liking, we have then already allowed a form of artificial adjustments, coupled with our own creative talents. Call it intelligence if you will. This then means that by the definition given to AI by this example, "Psychologists generally characterize human intelligence not by just one trait but by the combination of many diverse abilities. Research in AI has focused chiefly on the following components of intelligence: learning, reasoning, problem solving, perception, and using language", then through the use of these intelligent functions, we have already been, in a sense, using AI since the photo editing software was offered to us. 

As a photographer, whose means of income derives from my creative abilities, like many of us, I have been using artificial intelligence since before the craze was launched in the news and on social media, and the labs of universities and corporations. 

Initially I was proud, falsely, that I didn't want to use AI in my photography. As time has gone by I have accepted now that it is but another tool I use along with my own creative reasoning and creative talent, toward achieving my end goal; creating an image that is not just a carbon copy of what exists, but as close to what I dreamed of, and enhanced, placing for sale on my website. Where as before I thought it would cause my creativity to lose its edge, I now think of it as a less time-consuming task, from many hours or over days, to far less time. Since photo editing use of AI is still in its infancy, I await the ability to save me time in getting the images up for view and for sale. And if we, as artists, think about it, the darkroom, and now the digital DLSR, camera body and its embedded software, was perhaps the beginning of AI for artists. It allowed us to tinker with what existed just beyond the tip of our lenses.

How do you see this subject of AI and creativity influencing the world of photography? Add your thoughts below. Readers will love to hear from you if your comment is how you see this experiment, or in how you use it yourself

Is my photography pure art or is it AI?

Join my Group...Photography Art Buyers

 You can join and upload up to 5 images 

You'll link through and join at my group 'Photography Art Buyers' for photographers like yourselves who want to expose your work to those who buy art from rising artists. 

Once there you'll reach out to me to join, and I'll read your bio to see if you fit well, and then you can post and upload 1-5 images. This is good until February 

You'll know you're in the right place when you see this image at my group  

 

Here is my article for posting images

Call to Artists. Let's get 2024 started with enthusiasm.

Bring your most unique and creative images to Photography Art Buyers. The intent is to showcase your work here. As a group which is reaching out to art buyers, consider this your opportunity to connect with those currently buying or displaying your work, if they choose to do so.

1-5 images, of your choice of color, sepia, black & white, selective color, monotone, overlay and variations of these treatments as parameters for your work. You set your own limits or none at all, so long as the work has a sense of creative shooting or editing. Still, movement, overlaying, traditional, your own flair are all acceptable. Feel free to review your own work standards, or explain them to us, if that is appropriate for you. Brevity is encouraged.

Any genre is acceptable other than the distasteful, judged solely by myself, and will be removed. Anyone here who is offended will please communicate to me, and I will take appropriate action if needed.

Your images are not subject to any specific time-frame and can be work you've completed today or 90-ish years ago, but must be yours.

Enter the images in a single post or seperate posts, but to make your images easily recognizable as yours, post them consecutively, not between other entries.

Entries will begin on February 2, 2024
Ending on February 29, 2024

Here's wishing all of you, your best opportunity at Photography Art Buyers. This call is not about prizes, but exposure within this group.

Any questions, reach out to me prior to posting. Feel free to ask others to join by contacting me. Tap on my profile, choose Follow, then message me, if that method is still functional. Otherwise post your question right here in this group. Another way to reach me is using my blog: https://lnkd.in/bDhnf2v and enter your name, email address and message to me. No capture of your email address nor will it show to anyone visiting my site. Your email will remain anonymous.

I am not a technical wizard for uploading, but perhaps someone else might step in to help. I am not aware of limitations by LinkedIn for data in images when uploading, but if you are prevented, know that it is not my choosing.

The Service this Art Site Offers is the Very Best for Art Buyers

 Buying Wall Art is Finally Easy .....

Let's take a short walk down the path of finding the art you are looking for, while making it easier than you're used to. Then, if you wish adding a matte, and a frame. In fact, let's make it so easy, as if to find it a pleasurable and accommodating experience to you, as it should be, different than any other. In addition, you'll find so many other art types, from prints on any media from Canvas  prints to wood, and T-shirts to Beach Towels. Your long and arduous searches will be a task of the past.

Once there, the learning how to use the choices you'll have, will be intuitive, and fun to play with when selecting from the number of choices you are presented with. You'll be able to add and remove, pick and change with a tap of a drop down or button. Nothing to it. For the first time, your selecting and adding art to your cart, won't end in frustration, and it won't cost you your emergency savings.

Here's an example of one piece in my collection

To see this as it should be seen tap here

To see the rest tap here

Find exactly what you've been looking for and see how easy it is to view, buy and have it sent, with a full guarantee that if you're not happy with it, read this direct from my printer to you.

Our return policy is very simple:

 

If you're not happy with a purchase, for any reason, you can return it to us within 30 days of the order date.   As soon as it arrives, we'll issue a full refund for the entire purchase price.   Please note - we do not reimburse the outgoing or return shipping charges unless the return is due to a defect in quality.

 

If you've hesitated to purchase artwork online in the past, why not give us a try?   You have nothing to lose!