Hey everyone, welcome to the Passion and Purpose podcast, hosted by myself, Louis Giglio.

I'm so pumped for you to listen to this conversation I recently had with the absolute

legend wave photographer Ray Collins. Coming to you from Down Under in this episode, we talk about

how he stumbled upon being a photographer, what inspires him, and what it's like capturing the beauty

and brilliance of God through a lens.

It's such a privilege to have him on the Passion and Purpose podcast because he embodies those two

words as well as anybody I know. So here's my conversation with my good friend, Ray Collins.

I can't tell you how excited I am today to have our guest on the Passion and Purpose podcast.

I'm not kidding you.

I am like on a scale of 1 to 10, I'm on about a 54 right now because the person that we're

inviting on to the podcast today is someone who honestly has made as big an impact on my

life in the last five to 10 years as anybody on planet Earth. And the story's crazy. I'm going to

tell a little bit of the story somewhere along the way today.

But welcome to the current winner of the equivalent of the Geographical Oscar from the Russian Geographical Society.

Ray Collins, ocean photographer from Down Under, as they say.

Ray, it's so great to have you on the podcast today it's my honor and it's my absolute pleasure to be your guest louis i think this is our first intercontinental podcast actually so that's cool you are on the other side of the earth right now,

starting your day, day ahead of us right here where I am. But if people don't know,

Ray Collins is a genius at being able to see the beauty that God has created and what is the largest surfaced on earth, the ocean.

And I don't know how in the goodness of God, Ray, I found you, but somehow on Instagram,

I stumbled onto at Ray Collins' photo.

And I'm telling you guys, if you know what's up, go immediately after you listen to this

podcast and follow at Ray Collins photo. And I just saw images, beauty, inspiration that lit my

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