Why take pictures at all? Photorealistic renders are at our fingertips with things like Blender and Cycles. Just take a look at /r/rendered. It's fun to fiddle

Why take pictures at all? Photorealistic renders are at our fingertips with things like Blender and Cycles. Just take a look at /r/rendered. It's fun to fiddle and tinker. As much as someone could make the image in a render (I actually seriously doubt the picture could be recreated with post-processing alone unless there was a light field camera involved or something) who would think to do so? This didn't come about because someone was looking for the effect, but because someone was exploring and found it.