 Photography should be fun! At the heart of everything that we do when we pick up a camera and we take an image, there should be enjoyment. It should make us happy. Why do we take photographs in the first place if we're just going to spend all our time moaning about things? How's it? How's it? It's been playing on my mind for the last few days. This idea that I have given in once again to this demon of focusing on negative things in photography, of talking about things from not a positive standpoint, but from a like, this is why things are bad standpoint. And I don't like it coming in because before you know it, it creeps into your photography and it creeps into all the other little things that you do as part of this wonderful art form that ultimately should make us happy all the time that we do it. Sometimes it's a struggle and sometimes it's frustrating, but ultimately there should be a feeling within us whenever we take a photograph, whenever we do, of accomplishment, that we've done something great and that it fulfills a need within our soul somehow. There's a lot of tendency to, especially online, to kind of talk about things in a negative standpoint in the professional arena. It's all like, oh, why is this and why is that? And people don't spend money and all of that. And it's always moaning. It's this negative, nilly aspect. And then in the sort of the more sort of hobbyist amateur side of things, it's the same as well. There's people have arguments about the most random small things. And I find that odd. I know, I say I find it odd because I was indulged in it from time to time. But it does seem odd that so often we only do the negative things and never talk about the positive, wonderfulness that photography has any kind of photography. It doesn't matter what you do or what you take or any of the images that you create, how good or bad they are. And of course, those are subjective terms. Photography has the power to transport us, to be like other art forms, to make us feel emotions that we didn't think were there, to tap into ways of seeing the world, to how other people see it. I love looking at photography. I love looking at photography by myself. I love looking at photography with other people, discussing it with photographers, discussing it with lay people for one of a better word, because everybody sees something different. And that's the joy. And this is something that I can feel bubbling up, that I'm drifting away from that again. And I don't want to do that. That I certainly in my professional work, sometimes get angry with it, which is probably a bad thing to say. But I do, I feel these frustrations. And maybe I'm just saying this more to myself like a little mirror, that I should remember why I got into photography in the first place. That's because it was fascinating that I looked at those photographs that I'd taken. I was like, wow, these are cool. And allowed me to express myself in a way that I wasn't able to with my hands or with my writing or what have you, because I wasn't capable of doing it. But photography was an art form that I was able to express myself in. And we should all remember that, that even if we express ourselves in all sorts of different ways, photography should be fun. If it's not fun, take a break. It's okay just to take a break and just chill and come back to it in a little while. And I just want us all to remember why we took, why we take photographs, that we were inspired by seeing the work of great photographers. Do you know what? I'd like to try that. That looks awesome, right? Let's forget about, oh, you know, Photoshop makes it lazy or this or that or something like that. I just just push that aside. And that's my fault for bringing it into the channel. And I will just, I'm going to hold up my hands and say, look, I'm sorry. I think that the points I made are valid in there, but it's drifting into this arena of like controversial topics for the sake of controversy. And I don't want to be one of those channels that creates drama around and stuff like that. We're here to celebrate photography, to look at wonderful photography, to help improve our photography and to remember why we love photography, why it brings us happiness and brings us joy. Also, you may have noticed I have a new way of recording audio, so I hope that you like the thing, which is more of this. I would like a test to see how it's going. Anyway, thanks for watching and I'll look forward to seeing you again on the next episode.