Seems to me that "images" is a superset of
{photographs, paintings, holograms, stills from video,
photos that have been digitally manipulated, etchings,
drawings, digitally-created pictures, scenes frozen in
slowglass (okay, that doesn't exist yet), and even
pictures in my mind that I can't show anyone else until
I turn them into one of the others in this set}.
I'm not sure exactly where
{dioramas, quilts, stained glass, sculpture, collage}
fit in. Those could be considered images but seem like they need
to be described as something more than that.
So technically my photos are all images (though I admit I don't
_think_ of the index-card shot with roll-id, date, equipment, etc.
info on it as an image -- I think of that as merely a "document",
but technically it's an image of a document.) But not every image
I've made has been a photograph.
I guess my images are all "pictures" as well, but some of them are
kind of abstract, and not a "picture _of_" something in a concretely
representational way. So sometimes "picture" seems ever so subtlely
the wrong word, but "image" still fits.
Figuring out when to use which word is partly fine distinctions,
partly jargon usage, and partly the subtle nuances of what you
want to communicate about the photo/pic/image/slide/print at that
particular moment. (Can you tell that I love both mathematics
and language -- especially English, which I know best?)
Sometimes two words can be used interchangeably in a particular
sentence. Other times, both may be equally _correct_, but only
one will be _right_.
-- Glenn
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