I think that it's a question that cannot be answered in a simple yes or no. It is artistic photography as it demands to look at the landscape with another way of looking as someone else does. But the real artistic photography is more about expressing feelings/emotions in stead of just showing beautiful scenery. I was once with someone talking about photography and she was just talking all the time about feelings in relation to photography. I was just thinking: "I just want to make pretty pictures". I'll vote yes because what we do, we do with devotion and with love for the landscape. There's definitely passion involved and it costs lots and lots of time though just exposing the sensor takes little time. Painters from the 17th centuries like Rembrandt and Vermeer for example are seen nowadays as real masters though they were just painting things the way they saw it. Aren't we doing a sort of same?
The feelings that can be triggered by a beautiful landscape photograph, it's not just about what you're capturing. If it was, portraits would just be portraits. Did I make my point?
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Of course it is art. The art critics and the vapid rich lobotomy victims that pay attention to them have some wanky idea about art that if it looks nice, it isn't art. If it isn't making some pretentious statement deesigned purely to attract attention to itself, it isn't art.
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I was once with someone talking about photography and she was just talking all the time about feelings in relation to photography. I was just thinking: "I just want to make pretty pictures".
I'll vote yes because what we do, we do with devotion and with love for the landscape. There's definitely passion involved and it costs lots and lots of time though just exposing the sensor takes little time.
Painters from the 17th centuries like Rembrandt and Vermeer for example are seen nowadays as real masters though they were just painting things the way they saw it. Aren't we doing a sort of same?
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I love landscape.
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I dare to enter your ecstasy
Lay yourself now down to sleep
In my dreams you're mine to keep
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"Let's capture the moment changing into eternity
The picture is the path of silence"
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