As an amateur photographer (luckily praised by friends and family, thought I'd never try to make a carreer of it), I can tell you a good photograph, and photogr

As an amateur photographer (luckily praised by friends and family, thought I'd never try to make a carreer of it), I can tell you a good photograph, and photography as an art, are extremely difficult. Technically it requires a deep understanding of lenses, film/sensors (and file formats in digital photography too), but mostly how light behaves. And then comes composition, imagination (to "see" a shot before you even try it, prepare the lens at a set focal distance, focus, aperture, exposure, ISO levels, if you need a filter or not, and how that would affect the shot), the "artistic" characteristics of the image, making the subject feel comfortable if it's a person, timing for the precise moment that will make or break the picture. However, I didn't find it clear if you were referring to "seeing photographs" (apreciating them?) or "doing photography". Like I said, having a small knowledge on it, I find it as artistic and complex as all the other mentioned alternatives. Different too, but I wouldn't call it better or worse.