Imaginos Photography

Some of my newest made vinyl decals

We all wear masks when we are in public.  A view of ourselves that is often our best qualities to show to the strangers in the world.  We'll take off this mask when around those we are close to and those we love though as we've determined they are worthy of seeing the one that we hide.  Sometimes though a person will come to wearing a second mask, one that never comes off no matter the situation they are in.  A mask that most will see and treat as normal, but few will notice the creases and folds in it and come to see it to be just a mask of paper. Depression is something that comes in many forms and manifests itself in a way that often only one that has travelled with it will truely understand.  While many when they hear the term depression only think of the ones that feel the need to leave this world, they are but a single fish in the pond of it.  They do not think of the ones to whom happiness is a forgotten feeling or the ones often struck with apathy as they fall into a void of insignificance.  It's no wonder why often they do not know how to be helpful to the person who suffers or gives suggestions that are of no real help.  They'll offer to help with their flavor of helping by suggesting to do something that makes them happy as they assume that all that is needed is to feel some type of happiness. They often cannot understand that for the one they're wanting to help though, happiness is not something that is easily obtained and as the person does not gain happiness from their efforts they soon will fall frusterated and come to cast them away or tell them they're just not trying hard enough.  The idea of happiness being a foreign object is strange to them and like reading an old and forgotten language is one they cannot understand. The ones with depression are often thankful to some extent of the effort put forward but are often frusterated because they feel as if they're not being listened to.  The ones trying to help are only looking at the symptoms of sadness and ignoring the core of it because it's incomprehensible to them.  It's not their fault though, as depression is something that cannot fully be described or understood without experiencing it first hand. It is still tiring though.  It becomes wearing on the heart to have people constantly try to help in ways that are taking the wrong path.  It can become frusterating to have the feeling of being lead again and again into the wall that the helper can pass through without thought.  They don't want to lash out at the person who is only trying to be helpful but at the same time they do not want their help that leads the wrong direction.  This brings them to make their paper mask. A mask they build to show to everyone.  A mask of happiness and caring for others, often putting the needs of others above themselves.  It can often become a mask to help them forget if even just for a moment the void they occupy.  Unlike the masks of the public though, the paper mask will never leave them when they interact with others.  It'll become one of the constant lie that they are fine and nothing is wrong, a mask that brings them the security that they will not have to be dragged into the wall while they wear it.  It will be one that will help them to not feel like a burrden to other.  A mask finely crafted to where rarely will one see through it. But it is fragile. As finely as it is crafted, it is one that will fall apart easily when the inks begin to bleed into each other.  As it fall apart they will work to repair it but will often be forced to retreat to themselves to build a new mask as it cannot be repaired without revealing the tears and stains within it.  They will sometimes create their new one quickly, other times the replacement may never be made. The masks we wear are apart of us.  Everyone has theirs that they have crafted.  Some of the most fragile masks however do come to hide the most pain within the heart of a person, pain that cannot be explained, but only experienced.

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A nice and sexy xdiavel and Multistrada

A few photos from the recent dirtbike races I photographed(some did not make the cut on ones I had put up for sale, but I still kept some copies of them because they amused me)

Some new photos from recently.  I’ve been putting a little more focus lately on getting images up onto my webpage, imaginos.co lately

A few of my photos taken today up at Route 62 MX track(full album and pictures for sale are on imaginos.co)

Photos from a few of the protests that I’ve photographed.  It’s interesting to see them from ground zero as opposed to what is played on the news.  Makes me sometimes wonder what others that have happened in the past were like.

Went to the RC airfield today.  Posting a large collection of the photos in multiple posts.

Went to the RC airfield today.  Posting a large collection of the photos in multiple posts.

Went to the RC airfield today.  Posting a large collection of the photos in multiple posts.

Went to the RC airfield today.  Posting a large collection of the photos in multiple posts.

Went to the RC airfield today.  Posting a large collection of the photos in multiple posts.

A few photos from my outing today.

Oh wow, it’s actually letting me post a good chunk of them  Here are some photos from the Columbus Pride Parade from this year.  Love you all!

Found this guy in my basement