>>4152824Every photo taken is a memory preserved, at no cost to you. You talk like photography MUST always be high art, like you're just wasting your time if it isn't destined for a gallery. To me that sounds like an excuse for having nothing in your life worth preserving. It sounds like joylessness and a lack of love. $200, maybe $300, and you can take great photos for as long as you live and see every last detail your eye could have seen any day you want. You don't need more. It's not a fleeting pleasure, it's a genuine benefit to your life. It's an augmentation, an improvement made to the human experience. A second in your hand and history is preserved for decades.
Now when you consoom you throw away the representation of your finite life, your mortality, your time, labor, and wear on your body working or sitting at a desk, for absolutely nothing. Just the fleeting dopamine rush of a caveman that just found another berry. You trade your life for money, and then what do you trade your money for? I guess, the privilege of telling someone on 4chan that your lens scores higher on imatest, or that your film can be overexposed more. Is it an improvement? An addition at all? No, it is a repetition, a mindless thrumming, an oscillation, between the 40 billion old cycle of work and acquire, but shifted so that acquire is not as productive as work.
