Personal reflections

A conversation with myself 

 I recently had a rather long and inspiring conversation with myself about the state of affairs going on within my present life as is, inspiring, because I found out a lot about myself and those around me. I am what people see, a simple yet opinionated person but only when challenged, I love music but do not own much of anything as in cds' or extensive music libraries, but I do have music. I love Art because Life is Art..Love history because we learn from it or we should..Love being happy rather than sad of course, trouble is there are very few happy times in my life, the happiest days being were when my kids were born.. and some of my sad times are when I think of them and their families on family occasions but at the present time I can't be with them, I hope they understand. My heart is always with them.To me family is everything!
I must and always acknowledge the fact that family is the most important thing in one's life.. if we deny our family we are only denying ourselves, for our family defies who we are..remember that we always hurt the ones we love the most..those we love the most are our family. There is such a thing as forgiveness..specially to those we love.

Stand up for something!

If I know nothing about a certain subject, I quickly declare my lack of knowledge of whatever it is... but if the conversation turns to a topic that I am very knowledgeable of, I will offer my own views and will challenge with passion anyone who disputes me.I am not a materialistic person, I own things that I need to survive in today's world ..I do own photography equipment, (nothing elaborate) and nothing else, nothing I own is new or in fashion..I don't follow the trends.I believe in God, I believe in social justice, freedom of speech and the right to live your life in a peaceful and legal fashion without society or government telling me what to do.I question governments or "the powers that be" because in my opinion "tptb" are only self serving to remain in power, with a few peanuts being thrown here and there to it's lower downs to keep them quiet.One must always question authority or you'll never be free.

Looking for Peace through our Youth

We always take life as it comes rather than go after something you desire, where is it written that we must do everything as it has been done before for such a long time dictated to the masses by the elite power dominating few..Youth today have an opportunity to change all that, we've seen it to some success in the "Arab Spring"..
The youth today are the most educated and plugged in, than in any other time in history..Youth will question what benefits the older generation have left them with and will decide, hopefully, not to repeat them.. they, the youth, will decide that there must be a better way to do things, what it's priorities ought to be as apposed to the old way of thinking... billions of dollars on warfare while their populations starve or freeze to death, I really hope that todays' youth can open their eyes and see the truth, Peace doesn't have to come at a cost...it must be achieved with love and not hatred in open discussions and friendly dialogue  not bullets and missiles.How many more innocent children must die in the name of war, a war dictated by men in comfortable self adoring livelihoods who themselves have children who are sent to safe domains so as not to suffer with the rest..How cruel can people be?...
Today we have no excuses as to say "we didn't know"...we can't say that no more, we have known before and we know it even better now in realtime.We who know what's going on should pressure those who can have influence in such troubled places such as Syria, where hundreds of children have died in a freedom fight against a repressive government, these young boys, some only 10 yrs old tortured and killed by   government troops because they were a threat to the state if they were to live and grow up.
I agree with many who say, we, the west cannot impose our style of democracy on other nations, but soon Syria will fall to the youth there also, it's only a matter of time, it could be quicker if the rest of the world got involved but it seems that more and more it will be the youth of Syria that will by itself overcome the Assad regime . The Syrian youth will bring a better and fairer form of  a democratic system that will suit their needs to co-exist with the rest of the world , it won't be an easy task and it will take time, for old generation will attempt to derail anything that threatens them with a loss of power and an end to the old ways they so embrace, but it will ultimately happen .The Syrians need our support, not meddling, just support.
I pray North Korea will be next.

On relationships

Well, here is a topic that can be tricky..I haven't been in a true relationship for about 20 years, not that I haven't had some flings here and there but a true relationship is a hard thing for me to find due to my circumstances and I'm ok with that to a point..it's no secret that everyone needs somebody, I feel that void many times.I see so many people in relationships that are so one sided that at times I'm glad I'm not in one.A true relationship should be a MUTUAL love, honesty, understanding, respecting of views, tastes and faults but mostly TRUST between two people.

On my photography

First and foremost I will not post anymore photos on Facebook, I don't like how they delete accounts at will just because someone flags a photo they do not like..I've had people tell me, "Oh you won't get as many "likes" if you post your photos outside or in other websites "..I don't really care.. Those who like to see the progression of my work will always follow my work.
I don't want to imitate anyone, so I do things slightly different, When other photographers criticize  my work,   it motivates me more... I don't use the same techniques as many photographers use, I could if I wanted but don't want to..I am in good company. I think.
My love of art has me so into creative photography but the ups and downs I've had to endure with certain aspects of  this art form has me questioning if I've had enough, I love the female form, if I were to paint, the female would be my first choice ..There is such beauty in a female, face, body, dedication  and attitude, it's hard to find those four complete attributes in a model, I was fortunate enough  to have had  worked with 4 or 5 such models, two of  them don't model any more..Because I'm still building a portfolio on a TF basis, I will put up with some BS but only some, I'm very tired of no-shows in both at shoots and follow-ups..I have a life and need to arrange it as such and having plans for one thing then at the last minute you find out that it's not happening ..now "I can't do what I could have done because I thought I was doing this" scenario!Very tired of it so much that I may stick to my own creative projects and using only reliable models so that I can sleep at night.I will be doing more pic-tales this year and as you will notice they will be getting better..

Just wanted to get some things out of my chest.

Pereira