If your comment was blatant sarcasm meant to show how ridiculous it is to take pictures of something because you know it will die soon… i’m sorry.

Maybe they’re taking pictures of the animals before we kill them all forever.

I would look at this in a different way. Yes people are recording tons more these days…but think of all the stuff that isn’t interesting enough to be recorded by the masses. If you’re in that group, it’s time to worry.

And Shannon, your daughter paints like a 4 year old. Terrible.
And so do you come to think of it.

Cellphone cameras should be banned, everyone thinks they’re a photographer, but the vision just isn’t there……….

I agree. I think too many people these days live through the eye of a camera. I really dislike it.
I hardly ever photograph anything and in the circumstance you’re refering, Id end up missing whatever it was I was trying to get a good shot of. I think people are now relying far too much on artificial type memory. Don’t use it, lose it.
Besides, memories have much more to do with perseption, not caption.

We are so conditioned.

By my calculations, 50% of what’s in art museums belongs in dumpsters. 30% is ok. 10% I could do myself. I walk by all that stuff.

9.95% is good. I stop and look at that stuff briefly.

0.05% is inspiring. That’s the stuff you stop and look at for a long time. The stuff you come back to. The stuff that, if you don’t realize it’s there, will never draw you into a museum. That’s the part that a lot of people don’t realize exists.

Everyone’s stats are the same. Everyone thinks half the stuff is garbage. Everyone thinks 0.05% is inspiring. The catch is, everyone puts the works in different piles.

I think zoos are like that, in a way. A sleeping deer just isn’t that inspiring, at least not to me. River otters, on the other hand…