Pity you did not post larger versions, you seem to have done a nice job of replacing the backgrounds here. If this was done in Photoshop, you did a lot of work to get to the final images. Maybe not so hard if you used other AI-driven software. You pose (sorry, couldn't resist) an interesting question here, which I think we all have to deal with as photo manipulators, including Ansel in his day. How SHOULD we define our work once we start to fundamentally alter the original? My fall-back is that it is art. If we were sitting doing a watercolour by a riverside and there was an electric pylon in the view, I know that I would not include it in the finished product. The finished image is our impression of what we saw, enhanced to make it pleasing to us. If we share it, we show that we are, a: proud enough of what we did to let others view it, b: aware that in a public forum it will not necessarily appeal to everyone (artistically or technically) and c: willing to listen to other peoples point of view (pun not really intended, but I am leaving it in!)
You have opened up a philisophical can of worms, but you are not the first to do so.
Stay well and keep on posting!

These are mundane and so-so photos...

...until we find out that they are not really what they are.

Fake? Magic? Art?


Good grief people. Can't we have fun with photography? I have done this numerous times with a neighbor who spends the winter in Arizona. I put him in odd places and write a story to go with the picture. We both look forward to them, as do others to whom he shows them. The inane question -- Fake? Magic? Art? -- is posed and grown men and women take the time to turn it into a discussion akin to what is the meaning of life. It is FUN.