“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Click. No time to stand beneath the boughs – click, click – and stare as long as sheep or cows. Click, click, bloody click … photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a mental illness.”
Source: Nigel Farndale, Why live your life through a view-finder? (The Telegraph, 22 August 2009)
See also The rise of the camera-phone (Stuart Jeffries, Guardian, 8 January 2010)