Ouch! Brain cramp! That's heavy thinking for so early in the morning ;-)

One thing that sets photography apart, in my opinion, is that it is both art and craft in a way that few other media can be. A technician can photograph a scene, proceess the film, print the photo, and have a good, accurate record of the original scene. And the technician can make multiple accurate prints and repeat the whole process again and again. Yet the technician's work, despite its technical accuracy, will appear "flat".

Enter the artist and the pictures cease to be simply a photographic record and the photographs begin to appeal on an emotional level.

Funny how one can tell the difference between the two photos but find it so dificult to explain why!