Drop, Ripple, Wave

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Marine, Pourville 1881 Claude Monet

“Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water,
the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.”

- Dalai Lama

It takes imagination and the ability to visualize to be an artist—a blessing and a curse? In turbulent times our strong imaginations can lead us into scary visualizations—sometimes quite accurate projections, sometimes creative fantasies. But with the great power of an acute imagination comes the ability to visualize beauty and positive possibility as well.

Dewitt Jones, a professional photographer who spent the majority of his career traveling around the world for National Geographic, delivers an inspiring Ted Talk on his personal creative doctrine—“Celebrate What’s Right in the World”. (View Dewitt Jones’s TedX talk here.) Jones talks about taking the time to discover the beauty in a moment or a place in order to captur…