What's the point

[Athena]

I've been clearing, or starting to clear out my roof space and found numerous photo albums, packs of photos and boxes of slides.
I enjoyed using the camera and taking the photos, excited at the thought of getting them from the processers.
After a couple of viewings the photos are left away and forgotten about.
Interest lost, time to take more, this time I will take slides and look foreward to projecting them to check if they are sharp etc.
The next time I will try B&W and so the cycle goes on.
Digital was then the greatest thing, scanning the slides and negatives.
Buy a DSLR, brilliant, hundreds of photos on the computer. Computer crash. No back-up.
For several years I used an APS camera and snapped away then I got into rangefinders, the Contax then the Leica.
I'm just thinking what's the point of taking photographs.....

Because it's fun?

 

[Ororaro]

Actually, there's no point. Photography is a feel-good therapy of the moment. Practicing it, for us photography lovers, just makes life better. Those little moments... Nothing else.

What's the point of the future when it's gonna become yesterday, anyway... Only God knows.

 

[dee]

For me, with a disruptive autistic hiccup., seeing through my new-to-me rangefinders, contains a part of a confusing world , and distances ''me''through glass from the ''dee's orientation .
Also, i was ale to recapture some of my lost past through my late parents' allbums .. so pics today may be of some use tommorrow so, the reasons for taking photos is not always so obvious .