>>4465294The main reason I took up film photography as a hobby was because I was going through my grandpa's slide collection and I realised we collectively lost something when shooting film became an optional part of taking photos. Making records of your memories is such a fundamentally human thing, we want to have things that remind us of where we've been and what we felt, and we also want to leave things behind after we're gone.
If the photos you take are mixed in with a thousand random images on your camera roll, or they're on a memory card or a server farm somewhere in china, it's really not the same as if they were in an album you can take off the shelf and flip through. My grandpa has been dead for 20 years and I barely remember him as a person, but there's a box full of thousands of photos of the world he lived in, and I really felt like going through them was an indirect form of communication from him to me, and I think that's cool and that we should all leave some photographs behind.
