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But taking a good picture of something, setting it up, that takes patience and skill.

I'm not saying taking a picture is art, but the picture itself, is.

These images were taken on the Bodega Marine Reserve in Bodega Bay, CA. All picture taken by me.

A fawn, relaxing in the grass and lupin.


A Purple Shore crab, hiding in the cobble fields.


A Wooly Bear munching on some yellow lupin flowers.

Wow, where were you that you were able to get a picture that amazing of a dear . Like, that's completely gorgeous.


Back to the art or not argument, I feel that photography is art, although some kinds and methods are not. Just taking a picture of random things and hoping the picture looks good isn't art. Personally, I am very interested in abstract digital art, which is a zoom-in picture. To me, true art is having ideas about the world. Painters paint things around them, for the most part, and have ideas from looking around. Writers write stories, imagining, but all-in-all write about something in life that inspired them, even if they don't even know it. Photography is art in that it is looking around you, and finding beauty in the world. Taking pictures of nature, of life. Pictures of trash, of human faults, you just don't see those much, and they really aren't art.

You know, I really felt I was writing Fawn the entire time.. I even looked back and checked that it was a fawn, but I still wrote deer... and I even spelled it wrong o.O Sorry for the double post, but it is important to me that I don't have careless errors.

Wow, where were you that you were able to get a picture that amazing of a dear . Like, that's completely gorgeous.

nice pics. my friends say im the best cell phone photographer around...its kind of funny...

yeah.reallyu nice pics but i prefer the first pic