"A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words..."

3.2 Billion Images Uploaded Every Day...So What!

As a phogographer who cares?

It is estimated that there are 361 Billion written messages uploaded every day. Does a novel writer care or give it a second thought?

Seems to me shared images are easer to use to communicate than typing a text and the bulk of them serve that function: replacing typing, or even being better than typing if "a picture is worth a thousand words."

In that case of uploaded images used to communicate in place of text, the effect is three trillion two hundred billion effective words uploaded every day (3.2 Billion x 1000).

As a photographer, again, so what! It is of no concern.
As a photographer is your life work really to take a picture of your breakfast to show your friends because you can't be bothered to use language to describe the meal?

Thoughts?

You can spend a lifetime walking through forests, and there will be a few trees that you can recall, even decades later.

Photographs are like that, and some photographers are more adept at creating the memorable ones.

ic-racer said:

3.2 Billion Images Uploaded Every Day...So What!

As a phogographer who cares?

It is estimated that there are 361 Billion written messages uploaded every day. Does a novel writer care or give it a second thought?

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But there are not photographs posted on that, so it did not happen.

I couple of years ago, I was hiking in the Emigrant Wilderness. I stopped to drink some water and eat a clif bar. While sitting there I noticed a family of Yellow Bellied Marmots upon and around a group of large rocks about 25meters away. I sat quietly and motionless watching them for a while. After sometime, a young woman came up the trail and the marmots scattered and I engaged the young lady in a quiet conversation.