I genuinely good landscape photographer is certainly an artist. However, some landscapes lend themselves so well to being photographed that a person might produce impressive work without really participating in any artistic process (in other words, take snapshots). So it's possible to take decent landscape shots without producing art, but the opposite is definately possible as well. I think you alluded to it in your original post. If you're really doing nothing but capturing then it's not art. But if by choosing how to capture, you're creating something unique, you are an artist. That's the difference between those photos of the grand canyon your aunt passed around at the last family gathering and something like this (//noahgrey.com/photolog/00001137.shtml).
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