Now wait a minute... You got me all confused. Do you mean photography is the same as 'taking a picture of something... beautiful'..?
A scenery... a flower... an animal... a girl... a baby... That's it..? Is that all there is..?
If you want to write, you don't just write beautiful letters...
If you want to paint, you don't just paint beautiful colors...

I've seen images that some of today's best photographers have chosen as their best and favorite works... And I can assure you that most of those images won't even get two comments on Renderosity. You know why..? Because those images aren't 'beautiful'... Those images are not easy, they don't make you say Wow. They are not meant to be beautiful; they are meant to tell you something of life as it is or how the photographer sees it, ordinary or not so ordinary, it doesn't matter. Those images are not aiming at effects or 'moods' (one of those other words I've grown to dislike). In fact those images are so 'not-beautiful' that nobody here would notice them... And yet they were made by today's most estemed photographers.

What do you want to express with your photographs..? That there are beautiful places in Scotland? That a bald eagle is a beautiful animal..? That a lilly is a beautiful plant..? That the sea has beautiful water..? Come on guys..!

Edit: thought I'd throw this one in as more food for thought..: There is more self-expression in one single child's drawing than in a whole day of Renderosity photographs... How's that..?

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ