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It incorporates most of the thigs I'm interested in into one activity. Art, optics, computers, engineering, astronomy, nature, people and places.
There's always something to read about or look at that's in some way photography related that it never gets boring. The gear keeps getting better and is always beyond my reach but the limited gear I do own is amazing. The stuff of science fiction when I was a kid.
When I do get out to take photos the experience can be almost zen like. Total imersion in a place or thing, searching for the light, shape and moment. Nothing else seems to exist in real time. You can then go home and obsess in front of a computer screen for days trying to recreate that moment. Clicking on buttons, numbers and graphs in a Star Trek looking interface.
I do try to print out my better photos. People will hold and examine a real print much longer than a smart phone screen. All the information is there in their hands. With a screen they look, zoom into an area of interest, lose the context and swipe to the next image.
tl;dr I like photoing because it's ace.
