Your thoughts here are valid. However this is a photography forum and I posted a photograph.
Thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts.
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I didn't question whether you posted a photograph. (In fact, I'd argue that I posted a photograph, too.)
My main point was to suggest discussion of the question of whether your photograph is a landscape photograph or not, and if so, what defines "landscape." This is a "landscape" photography forum. My points are all relevant to that question. (Only some of what I wrote is relevant to the question that you seem to mistakenly think I'm raising - e.g. "what is a photograph?")
Three photos: Which are/aren't "landscape" photographs and why/why not?
I guarantee that at least two started as images captured in a camera, but I'll also state that perhaps more than two did. Looking at EXIF data is cheating, and might be misleading anyway... :-)
I do not think this is an irrelevant question in a landscape photography forum.