Thanks, Wolfgang - Seems I'm having a little trouble explaining myself lately. I've had to backtrack on several of my posts.

Guest - Whether the pictures were "doctored" or not was not really the point. What I hoped to hear (and I did) was that photographs today are not really evidence. I think during wartime, we have to be especially vigilant about believing all of the images that are being presented to us. The same as we have to be careful about believing what the administration has to say about whats happening in Iraq.

I, too, have been a photographer for nearly 45 years. My husband was an army photographer in VietNam. In that time I have seen many technological changes. The darkroom is no secret to me. I am upgrading my computer system very soon and I will have all "the latest" thanks to my cousin, the computer wiz. Soon I will be in full production. I can hardly wait to start.

I still think, as Jim Maginn pointed out to me, there has to be a way to include a symbol of some kind to indicate that a photo has been digitally enhanced. So many of our historical references today are the result of very honest depictions of an event. If nobody believes our history, we leave no history.