Photo #15 (Plus It Gets Lively)

This’ll be #15. Saw these kids on the street and had to photograph them. Think maybe they are related?

(Note: Make sure you read below my signature. It’s a gas.)

I hope it doesn’t seem a waste of your and my time that I am (temporarily) fixated on a photographer you may not have heard of, rather than world events, which seem to be spiraling out of control, like right now. We may be headed for another war, even a nuclear one (although I do have some doubts about nukes, whether they are what we’re told and so on), but the principles of the root problem are the same in either case, i.e., people don’t appear to notice deceit, or, if they do, don’t have an opinion on it, let alone do anything.

Spectators at a Caribbean cock fight.

I mean, hey, our country committed a horrendous act of full-blown eco-terrorism in blowing up the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline and (apart from Fox) none of the MS media even mentions it. Imagine if Russia did something like this to us. This is as in-your-face as the scene in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four wherein the State’s enemy changes during a rally and no one notices. This is the world we’re living in. (Right, little need to point this out to the regulars here.)

The reason this photo-alteration issue is worth a few posts has to do with the apparent dedication many if not most photographers (amateur and pro) claim to have; the evidence for this is implied by the traffic photo-oriented Youtube channels get and the passion and thirst for knowledge in the comments. I suspect it’s largely through these Youtube videos that photographers like Alex Webb garner their followings. 

Diana, one of my past… you get the idea.

Yet, if you go to Graeme Williams’s in-depth analysis of one of Webb’s photos, you will now find him saying that the subject of obvious anomalies in a half dozen of Webb’s photos  is ‘beyond (his) pay grade.’ What? Listen to some of that video and think about this statement. Not only is he smart and insightful, but he’s a wonderful photog. Why the lack of balls?

The roaring silence from the three channels I’ve alerted plus Webb himself might remind you of what happened when I challenged certain ‘alt media’ types of their bullshit. When they reply, trying to debunk my observations, they regret it. This may especially explain Webb’s silence (although it’s early yet).

Although someone else pressed the button, this is a self-portrait. Don’t argue. Long story.

James Cowman is a piece of work. (He’s the guy who analyzed 10 Webb photos, not noticing that 5 were likely frauds.) As mentioned, he emailed me with this: ‘I will not respond to anything you wrote.’ He also said he sent my stuff to Webb.

Not hearing from Webb, I emailed asking if he did indeed contact Webb. ‘Yup,’ he said, adding that I will probably be hearing from Webb’s lawyer. I got a grin out of this and answered:

The distressing irony here is reflected by all the ‘serious’ photo analyst channels and websites all over the place. I previously went through a similar cluster fuck with several other YT channels about a vaguely similar ‘touchy’ subject, which I describe in my up-coming photo book. Two of these were ‘The Art of Photography’ and ‘The Photographic Eye’ channels and although one appeared to reply, his answer was actually misdirection, i.e., a complete dodge of my question. Not worth going into these for now.

Herein there is a striking similarity to my observations on Musk’s Spacex frauds, starting from his ridiculous ‘Tesla in Space’ studio-creation and finishing up with his impossible-by-the-laws-of-physics, intelligence-insulting pinpoint landings of his booster sections. I’ll put links below to my videos showing the Whys/Hows of these fabrications.

Pineapple festival, Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

Robert Capa’s most famous D-Day photo. Enlarge and examine the left side of his face (his right). See that thick line? The face was altered, maybe fabricated. The kicker is that the negative ‘somehow got lost’, says Life magazine. Talk about a red flag.

There is so much… strangeness! The goddamn Mandela Effect may be a hint or a wink that we don’t have a clue just how strange. A while back I ran into a busload of Amish on a beach vacation and managed to corner the grey-bearded head of the church and asked him if he was familiar with Isaiah 16;1 and said he was. When I asked if he would recite it he said, ‘The lion and the lamb will lie down together.’ 

Capa’s most famous photo was almost certainly staged. See link below.