Many people, especially millennials, question the practise of printing one's (digital) photos. With the prevalence of social media, including sites such as Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, Flickr and so on, sharing your photos is so much easier when sticking to a digital workflow. Besides - digital photography costs nothing (except for the initial investment in equipment). Printing can be very expensive.

This is not a long, detailed debate. It is a singular observation as there are many arguments for printing your photos, in addition to the reason discussed in this post.

Take a look at this photograph I took a couple of days ago of some wild flowers. My computer monitor is based on an IPS panel, so although it cannot render all Adobe RGB or P3 or even sRGB colours, it is considered much better than many computer / mobile phone monitors out there. It is colour calibrated as well. Take a look what happens when I ask Lightroom to simulate which colours will be clipped when rendered on a device that can display all sRGB colours (the standard used on 99.9% of all computer monitors):

If I switch to my calibrated monitor's profile, it is a bit better (especially the greens), but many of the flowers still show clipping and results in an ugly rendering since the display struggles to render certain oranges / reds:

Finally, had I printed this on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta paper using my Epson 3880 printer, there would have been NO clipping of colours - meaning the full image would have been rendered in all its glory: