Originally posted at www.jonaspaurell.com A few years ago I was sitting in Chamonix, high up in the French Alps, with a glass of red wine and had a discussion with an acquaintance who works at the National Gallery in London - in my view one of the finest art establishments in the world. Speaking for herself (as opposed to representing the official view of the National Gallery) she told me that nature photography, in general, and landscape photography, in particular, isn't art