Why make photographs?

[Steve J Murray]

The world is so interesting, I just have to get some of it on film (or silicon) and make a print, of course.

[William Mortensen]

Well, if I didn't make photographs, I don't know how I'd justify spending all that money on film...

[Marko]

Well... For me, the real question is why not?

Life is a series of unique brief moments that no two people can see in quite the same way, streaming past us. None of them will ever happen again, and those that we do not capture on film/chip will be lost forever.

What really facinates me is how few people bother to notice all the intriguing details and even random arrangements of details that surround us everywhere we go.

Those moments and those details are so special that it would be a pitty not to photograph them.

[jnantz]

i have a bad memory - photographs help me remember what i would easily forget.

[Chad Jarvis]

For the drugs.

(John, you sound like Winnie the Pooh.)

[Mike H.]

Because I keep hoping to get that perfect photograph before anyone else does.

[Mikael Tran]

I do it for the the thrill of cheating death and go against the tide mostly because i fancy to things that are in themselves innocent and beautiful. I am sure most of you here would agree when you stumble upon something that is so breathtakingly beautiful, at that very moment, there is such an indescribeable feeling of content and peacefulness, enough to immerse your soul beyond utopia.

[John Kasaian]

Its like playing with light and time---capturing something alive not in a mayonnaise jar with air holes punched in the metal lid but on fiber based paper---and then being able to keep it safe and alive.

[John Berry ( Roadkill )]

Chad,
Interesting you would say that. My wife has commented on more than one occasion that I have the personality of a bear.

[Leonard Metcalf]

To share my love of natures beautiful creations.