Digital BW, The Print

David,

> I'll certainly grant all the obvious ways in which a photo is an
> abstraction from reality, and not the reality itself.  Frozen moment,

Why is a frozen moment not reality?

> chosen angle,

And why is that not reality?

> in B&W loss of color,

But color is not the only reality, there is also IR, UV, grayscale etc.
It's merely a different spectral response.

I'm not sure that your points here show that a photo is an abstraction from
reality...

Regards,

Austin