Snowy Comet
Connoisseur of Thinn
The “photography” tag is definitely a mixed bag today but the distinction between “photos, the object,” and “photography, the activity,” is meaningful enough in principle to justify separate tags for them, at least to me.
Here are some images where I’d find it appropriate to have a “photography, the activity” tag and no “photo, the object” tag:
How about this?
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Rename the “photography” tag to “photography (activity)” and give it a description that indicates it’s only for images which depict the activity, not necessarily a photo.
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Go through the “photography (activity)” tag and replace it with “photo” on all images that are better served by the latter.
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After completing the above, consider adding “photography” as an alias of “photography (activity)”.
- When “photo” and “photography (activity)” both appear in autocomplete results, I expect the difference between when to use which will be somewhat more obvious than when the choices come up as “photo” and “photography”.