Photography  is a challenge, and I feel I rarely rise to the level I hope to, though the effort is on-going. 

From the late Galen Rowell, Climber and Photographer:

"The thought process of photography is not obvious or   wholly intuitive.  Over and over again, many of the best and the brightest minds of each generation have floundered at the simple act of taking a meaningful photograph."

Hopefully one or two of the photographs on this site rise to the level of meaningful.