Upload photos!

One of the things I have asked the last time is photos. Anything I do or wherever I go.
Family and friends want to see pictures of what your eyes can not show them to be more than 15,000 kilometers away, and photographs taken by the protagonist (me in this case) are worth more to them than a thousand words or videos.

Why not using videos or Skype? Why not searching in the Web to find images of Sydney or watching documentaries on television?

For me, it reflects the effect of the picture to keep family and friend ties alive because it shows the history. We could criticize its authenticity, attributing it suffers from some manipulation, or short of quality, but is still an invention that has transcended centuries fixing what we see with our eyes. The story continues. Time passes. But the image is fixed.
In the words of Geoffrey Batchen, in "Epitaph" (1997), the history of photography is full of images that have been manipulated in one way or another. That really trying to spend 3 to 2 dimensions, and is an alteration. Beyond the possibilities of technology, photography requires the presence of two persons at least; photographer and viewer. This gives a subjective sense.
The context and quality of the pictures may vary and the image could be appreciated, rejected or being indifferent by the viewing public. The instant captured by the lens will produce one or other effect on them. But they still want to see photos.
As I mentioned in the title of this post, the requirement is not only take pictures, but "uploading." The real image is set through the picture and then reproduced in a digital environment. The "moment" captured in a particular space and time is available to be seen by my entire contact network.
10 years ago would have had to print them, put them in an envelope and mail them to custom recipients and addresses. Today, just mail them or upload to a website like Facebook or Flicker. The recipients, choosing to see them, they become joint owners of the images can comment, lower, print, forward ... many possibilities.
Photography is a communication media, whitin we share experiences. In more than a century, no one media appears to replace it. Until then, long life to photography!