You had some interesting thoughts on the photographer/camera relationship. I'm not so sure it's that different from the painter/paintbrush relationship. Perhaps the difference is more the speed at which the result can be had. In other words, anyone and everyone can pick up a camera, point and shoot. Instant creation. Anyone and everyone can paint or draw a picture. It's not as fast, and it's not convenient many times, so only those that are dedicated to being good "artists" will pursue that direction. On the other hand many people pursue photography, just to fill their scrapbooks and hard drives with "snapshots" of life, more as a preservation of memories than as art and in the process they overwhelm the internet with their "art." I'm just thinking out loud here and it was probably worded poorly, but I will still post it because it's convenient and instantaneous, allowing the ease at which I can throw syllables at the internet to be rivaled only by the speed at which I can fill the SD card on my camera with mediocre shots.
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