

The conclusion an online researcher might justifiably reach is that, according to a sampling of standard dictionaries, some English users capitalize the term while others do not. On the other hand, some dictionaries take a contrary position and say that the term “earth” is commonly left lowercase, even when listed among other capitalized planets. The majority of online dictionaries confirm that the term refers to the planet on which we live and is "often capitalized." For example:, Merriam-Webster Online’’, and American Heritage Dictionary In all these definitions, no exception was apparent regarding the presence of “the” in guiding capitalization.

Instead, it quickly became apparent that dictionaries provide a variety of usage guidelines concerning the proper spelling and use of “Earth” vs.

The result is that no evidence of such a rule could be found. So, a number of dictionaries were consulted, both online and printed. That “should not be capitalized” sounded very much like a rule, one that presumably could be backed up by some authoritative source. To justify his reverting Earth back to earth, as the term now stands, WP contributor MarylandArtLover makes this assertion: "When preceded by 'the', the word 'earth' should not be capitalized. Reply Īs now written, this sentence appears in the accompanying article: "Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscapes, for example." Westernscribenew ( talk) 13:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC). They paint pictures of their photographs-ideally, photographs they, themselves, have taken. In addition, a "dirty little secret" of landscape painters is that many no longer work outdoors. Their photographs have impacted 20th Century landscape art. Landscape photography has affected the way we look at landscape, the sights that we regard as "beautiful" or "interesting," and the sights that we deem worthy of preservation. I do think that a discussion of landscape photography belongs in this section, with a link to "landscape photography." But at any rate, I don't think anyone would dispute that Ansel Adams was an artist. Photography makes it easy to make pictures one could argue that a shot of my shoe, taken accidentally, is art. Operating a camera does not require artistic talent, but of course, smearing paint randomly across a canvas doesn't require any, either. This discussion has rather large parameters. "photography itself requires no artistic talent". Jack Bethune 12:57, 23 September 2006 (UTC) Reply As a consequence,please place landscape photos under "Photography,landscape" and not on this page, which deals primarily with paintings and related hand-painted art. While it is correct to say that photography can require art in its successful execution, photography itself requires no artistic talent and no one would be convinced that common snapshots are anything like art. It seems clear to anyone reading this page that it deals with art, as in paintings, rather than with photography, as in photos.
