#9 “You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams

This I agree with. A photographer very carefully decides what is going to be in their frame when they take the picture. They are not just out there taking pics willy nilly and hoping that one will be what they want. There is a decision process occurring with each photo that is being taken and it is the decisions being made in that photographers mind that is making the picture. Much the decisions a painter makes when painting, what colors to use, what lighting, what is going to be in the painting and what is going to be left out purposefully. A photographer makes these same decisions and Ansel Adams photography is so beautiful it looks like a painting.