Is Photography Art ?

Seem to remember having a similar conversation on here in the past! ;o)

I think photography is lots of things to lots of different people! depending on the use of the photos. It can be what you want it to be ...much as drawing/painting is ...some like true to life paintings, others like abstract, some like both or the bit in between. To me its art!  i like taking photos of things that grab my eye ...and i see most things as a photograph, or painting! i like people to see it how i 'saw' it, sometimes we see things more in our minds, so although we are looking at a snowy path in the woods, its pretty to look at, but we also feel the atmosphere, i use photoshop, not to alter (although this can be fun) but to bring some of this 'atmosphere' back, to show how i felt at the time, by tweaking the saturation a little.

I like using the different programs available for photos, and using photoshop, as Jason does also, I find the photos can be tweaked to correct my inability to keep them evenly balanced...but am not so sure about totally changing a photo to create a totally different picture from it...enhancing it to be quite different from the realistic photo it originally was.