<<<I would also suggest the possibility that what makes a picture
*interesting* is "editorializing" by the photographer. I mean I can go
look at your old canal or your cloud forms or your lump of tar for
myself. >>>
You can look at the subjects, but you won't thereby "see"--or even be
able to take a good guess at--what someone else's photograph from that
location might look like. You might come close if you know that
photographer's other work very very well, but that again shows just how
subjective the process is.
The business of different photographers making different pictures from
the same "scene" is perfectly true, though it would be at its least
evidence with a herd of beginners snapping away at a distant view. The
differences with two photographers with fairly mature visions turned
loose in the same park or on the same city block can be astounding. As
though they were photographing differnt worlds, which of course
subjectively, they are.---Carl