To Crop or Not to Crop

These two pictures are the same picture. One is cropped, one is not. This is a big question for digital artists since it is so easy to do in a computer.

Bias

Ansel Adams, a famous photographer, created beautiful nature pictures. His greatest secret - what he left outside of the picture frame. He pointed his camera to points of greatest interest and cropped out the rest. These two pictures were with in seconds of each other. (Hint: I made a link of his name to a selection of Google pictures associated with Ansel Adams. Just click on his name.)