Is great photography dying?

In previous years, it was much easier to find high-quality photographs online. However, in the past couple of years, locating great photographs has become increasingly challenging. I won’t mention the name of the website, but one I have frequented for years is now inundated with snapshots and often AI-generated images.

I know that I am capable of taking photographs that would not be classified by many as great. I know I’m capable of generating snapshot-style photographs. I have been known to generate images using A.I.

What is beginning to be a bit of a concern, for me, is that the search for great photographs is becoming more challenging.

It doesn’t matter to me what equipment is used to create wonderful photographs, I am more concerned about photographs that generate emotion, and evoke a feeling of art, rather than merely pointing a camera at a scene and pressing the button.

Ansel Adams said, “You don’t take a photograph, you make a photograph”. Which, to me, means that the content and execution were deliberate and planned.