Meaning? Oh… you mean like instrumental jazz has meaning? Kinda like good jazz… meaningful jazz?

My dictionary says meaning is implied or explicit significance. My thesaurus offers these alternatives: expressiveness, significance, eloquence, implications, insinuations. If this is what you mean by meaning, then I agree to its significance in photography.

Some feel the need for evidence of mankind in an image for it to have meaning for them. Meaning is obviously subjective and personal. What I find most meaningful is usually devoid of that evidence.

The visual arts are a playground of visual things …and visual ideas, much like music is a sonic playground. Sometimes the result, the byproduct, has meaning to those outside of the playground, and sometimes not. But speaking for myself, it is the act of play that is the important part.

This image was made with the following meaningful stuff: 28-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit ASPH, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.