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Originally Posted by dr5chrome 
I never really did understand the photo-journalist mentality. Do they take such images because they are drawn to it, or do they do it to make a buck?
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I personally get the instinct to record a situation. I've missed three in the past month or so, and I haven't stopped beating myself up for it.
My grandfather has become something of a town celebrity where he lives (a small town in the Black Forest), because he has a collection of some 33000 meticulously documented slides dating back to the 1940's.
The sense of nostalgia and have-beens is enough for me. If I could make a buck selling some image, hey, a guy's gotta eat.