A couple of interesting ideas in recent papers.  In the FT on Saturday, David Hockney wrote:

"photography came out of painting, and because of Photoshop is returning to it".

In the Guardian today, from Jonathan Jones

"Painting is a transfiguration of reality by the painter's imagination, a photograph is a deposit of light onto paper or digital memory" 

Symmetry

Taken at Chiswick House

Also found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89296265@N03/

It was very overcast, and I set the exposure level at +1, which was a mistake.  A lot of over-expsoure in subsequent pictures.