It was Ansel Adams who said "You don't take a photograph, You make it." An antithetic idea of what I think photography has become. The birth of social media has undoubtedly changed the way we view a photograph.
Lucid images with softly lit sunrises over bare mountain tops or appetising fine dining meals that moisten the pallet and implore the taste buds; the new age of documentary photography is cheap and easy, you but need a phone and a hand. I mean the photograph is no longer a worked piece of art, but a canvas saturated by an encryption of vanity. A pissing contest to see who has the most excessive and idealistic feed. It's not about the the photo but the projection of adventure and possibility.
I think a photographer should be like a conductor of vision, directing the eye through unexplored landscapes introducing you along the way to all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures set against landscapes of ornate beauty. I long for the day where photography means something more to the masses than cheap ploys of validation acquisition, though It's a future that is becoming more idealistic than a reality with each passing day.