I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.

I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.