I found this debate online Is photography art? I have to say some of the answers of those saying no it isn't art, did make me a little frustrated. One person suggested "Well photography is nothing more than a person standing there and taking a picture. Anyone can do it." It is true that digital cameras have made it a lot easier for more people to take good quality photos, but the best photos aren't just taken casually, we don't just "stand there". It takes time, knowledge, patiences, a creative eye to see something the average person wouldn't see. For some of the best landscape photos a photographer has waited for hours to catch the perfect time to take that one photo. That certainly isn't a snap shot.
I have taken photos my whole life, but have taken it more seriously over the past 12 or so years. I definitely have a natural eye for creativity, I always have done. What has let me down has been my knowledge of the use of the camera, this I am learning and probably won't stop learning. The camera is the tool, we need to learn how to use it and then put a creative touch to that. Does a painter not need tools, a paint brush and paints and does he not need to learn how to use those tools?
I have always thought of photography as an art form, I know I have a long way to go before I have mastered that art form, but I will keep on learning. I think Ansel Adams put it perfectly, "You don't take a photograph, you make it".
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