Mark Hobson ("The Landscapist") asked a few days ago on his blog, "Why do you take the photographs you take?". Hell of a good question, to which I really don't have an answer. Other than Sir Edmund Hillary's, of course.

The thought that occurred to me, though, was that this is a question that "real" photographers (at least, the ones I consider "real") must get asked (even if silently) all the time. "Why are you taking a picture of that?" Have a look at Lee Friedlander's work, or Joel Meyerowitz's (at least, early on), or Robert Frank's, or Elliot Erwitt's, or Stephen Shore's, or William Eggleston's - can't you just hear some passerby asking, "What are you doing? Why are you taking a picture of that?"