Here's another Susan Sontag inspired criticism of mass tourism and digital photography by Kevin O’Faircheallaigh that takes the form of "I hate mass photography".

says that loves Andreas Gursky and LaCahapelle O’Faircheallaigh, who writes for Crikey's travel blog, says that So I love photography in and of itself. This, however, is misleading. He is opposed to photography in itself.

I have however, never owned a camera. I’ve always felt that moments of visual beauty or happiness should be enjoyed, then allowed to become memory. I feel like while the photo may provide a more accurate record of something, it then takes over and the memory itself becomes what you see in the photo. I like the self adjusting function of the brain that lets you remember an experience as it felt, not just how it looked. Others will disagree, and I can’t deny the warm sense of nostalgia that you can get looking back over old photos. Overall though, I think photos lessen an experience rather than enhance it.

Dan Miller, an Australian photographer, is the exception to O’Faircheallaigh's bad mass photography (half decent pictures) done with modern digital cameras. This suggests that those who buy expensive, top end digital camera are going beyond just recording their weekend full of happy slapping. They are, presumably, taking decent photographs.