[PhotoJim]

I'm not exactly a digital fanboy (I rather resent it actually) but there's no question in my mind that digital photography is indeed photography. Where it diverges from being photography and becomes imaging is when the imported image recorded with light is manipulated in the computer.

We manipulate images in the darkroom too, of course. The question is the degree of manipulation.

When something ceases to be reality, it's no longer a photograph. It is an image. It may well be art. It's just not a photograph. Photographs by definition record reality, although the recording of the reality may be in some fashion enhanced or even unrealistic (as with infrared films). The picture is a reflection of reality, perhaps different from what the eye sees but real nonetheless.

Edit the image so that it's no longer real and it's not a photograph any longer.

I happen to like recording reality, so analog photography suits me just fine.