Photographers paint the world with their cameras. They paint shadows and lights, adjusting the temperature and tones of their images. As technology advances, photographers are given the opportunity to become more and more constrained by their tools and therefore focus solely on artistic expression.
Your camera can be your therapist
In this span of time, while mind and soul crave comfort and solace, you are exhausted from this infinite mundane of today, tomorrow and yesterday. You need some activity to escape the daily chaos. Something otherworldly and tactile. Something therapeutic and a harbinger of salvation.
For more visual people, creating art through the lens of a camera can be a relief.