Yesterday I did a video talking about the importance of creating meaningful work and I want to talk a little bit more about that and the reason I'm doing these videos is I want to hopefully provide some inspiration and some enthusiasm to create things and we live in a world that does seem very oversaturated with plenty of photographers, plenty of images and a lot of noise to cut through and

it's also a very fast-paced environment too with

social media and kind of the cycle of everything and one of the things that I think is important

to is to understand what it means to create meaningful works.

And I want to talk about what that is.

And I want to talk about the time and care

that it takes to do those things.

Because I think that is really important.

And it's something that I think our culture doesn't have much patience

for but it's important to understand and it's important to embrace and when I'm

talking about meaningful works I'm obviously saying you know meaningful works could be something that means something to you.

You know, that's why most of us get into photography or creating anything for that matter.

There's a personal enthusiasm, excitement, expectation. Maybe you set a personal bar and you're trying to get better and

reach that, and that's fine. But I'm really talking about meaningful works on a much

larger scale in the context of culture.

In the context of, you know, if you're able to create something, you have the power to make

something that can make somebody think.

It can create awareness for something.

It can just create positively and make somebody feel

better about something. I mean there's an enormous power that we have in

creating something and that talent takes a lot of time to build up.

And I think that we live in a culture,

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