I'm not sure we appreciate photography as much as we do other art forms. Part of this comes from the reality that surrounds and permeates a photograph - it's very, very real, and the photographer strives for clarity and crispness in the representations. Perhaps this is why black and white images continue to be relevant - they strip away extraneous information (color) and leave us with something that is at once familiar and also non-existent - for nothing exists in black and white. Nothing. I also think that pictures are becoming too common-place... Everyone has a camera in their pocket, and while that's a very democratic thing (everyone can express themselves in a picture easily and readily, and can find an audience for these images, which are casually taken and casually viewed, and perhaps just as casually forgotten) I think that we embrace that casual attitude, and it spills over to all aspects of the media, making it impotent. So I read this article this morning: h...
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But he just can't. He keeps hoping that maybe, one day, she will get it. Or that he will say the right thing to really reach her heart. :/
And again, some people are not aware this kind of intimacy exists, and if they are, the desire for it is as foreign to them as the lack is to you and me.
Sometimes, yes, we are fools to continue to reach for it somewhere we know we won't find it. I've done this myself, a couple of times.
You weight the pros and cons in your own mind and make your own decisions even now. Your destiny is still yours, although it does affect others.