I was asked a few times - not only on dA - WHY exactly I take photos.
Honestly, I see no particular reason to do that.
But I have a few - quite important - quotations, which may include answer... and, last but not least, they can describe my opinion about photography in general.
"There was a French poet who claimed that photography is a poorhouse for unsuccessful painters."
"I'm just a routine tourist, satisfied with my fate, I'm going through my life with my camera, which is just a pretext for me to feel myself alive, as once, in these old days, when all people had carried their shadows upon their feet."
"You know, I'd still photograph,