I'll bite. If you're at the Grand Canyon for an hour, and spend 5 minutes taking photos/selfies, you've still got 55 minutes of the rest of the experience. A

I'll bite. If you're at the Grand Canyon for an hour, and spend 5 minutes taking photos/selfies, you've still got 55 minutes of the rest of the experience. A lot of things look silly when observed, as opposed to being experienced. Turn around during a concert and watch for a good while. The audience may look... strange. One of my big objections to Susan Sontag's "On Photography" is the common idea that if we take photos we don't experience the moment. I've got a child, and I've taken 30K photos of him since he was born (he's 15 now). When I fly through his photographic timeline, my memories of the moments around the photos are pretty vivid. I'm glad to have the record.