It is about capturing the visual experience/sensation so that someone else feels what you did. Photography can not be reality or literal, because, for among other things, you have transformed something from 3D space to a 2D plane.
BR From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What you say may be true for some aspects of photography, but for an image recorder like me, I try to record exactly what I'm seeing and experiencing at the time, with the least amount of distortion of fact as possible. Making the photo a slice of reality as *I* saw it is easily 90% of the effort. Else, why take the shot? keith whaley