Perception

I'm not a believer by any means, but I have my reasons for it. And, it seems that today's youths may be following somewhat in my footsteps, but for much different reasons, according to this news story.

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As a photographer, one of the things I constantly fret about is whether I'm pricing my prints right. Is it too high, too low, just about right? As any person looking to improve themselves in their field should do, I ask this of other photographers all the time. One answer stood above all the rest, specifically for fine art photos.

The gentleman I asked about the subject gave a story. Imagine selling fine art prints in an art show. Your first year, you price them at 20 dollars each, find no genuine interest. The next year, you attend the same show, but price your work at 200 or 300 dollars each. For some strange reason, people automatically assume that a higher price indicates a higher value, and you have more sales. Yes, having a price reflect inherent value. That is the way things should be, but it is certainly not the way things really work.

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As I was asked to clarify some of the aspects of what I wrote in my post Spiritual Perception I thought it might be a good idea to also give the same clarification here. Unless we view things from the same viewpoint understanding is rendered impossible.

First of all, we are not these bodies; there is no possible way we could be. For one thing the cells of the body are rapidly changed out, at my age, 58 I have exchanged all the cells of my body more times than I can count. Within the cells are Microcondria, with completely independent DNA and without these I could not even move.

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