On Saturday, I headed to CHOP to shoot TREY LOVE, a young boy with cancer. Right after shooting Trey I had a wedding to shoot in the city. So I left 3 hours before I was due at the wedding, thinking this is plenty of time to shoot TREY’s pictures.

Long story short, and three accidents later on 76, I only got 25 minutes with him (and the other 14 people in the small hospital room). So it wasn’t the ideal situation for being creative. But I wanted to do the best I could for the LOVE’s.

A few of the pictures turned out. But wasn’t happy with the video I shot at all. So I just planned to give the footage to the Loves when they got home and never edit it into anything.

But then on Monday night I got a ton of Facebook inbox messages, from people I barely know or don’t know at all, saying “how inspired and amazed at what I was doing.” Which is weird, cause I don’t think our family is doing enough. But that was enough for me to push through being sick and tired to work on this. Because I know in my heart of hearts, if my wife and I were going through this, WE COULD NOT WORK.  Or get out of bed for that matter. Mike and Missy are so strong!

So that night after everyone went to bed I cut this video together in a few hours. Because It’s not about me, It’s about Trey.

The best part about this story is the end. Trey saw the video, and it made him happy. And me, well, it made me feel like I had purpose in life, even if for only a few moments.