I guess the difference that I see is that with photography I’m not generating a completely random image every time I push the shutter button. I think the corollary might be if I pointed my camera at some trees and pushed the shutter button resulting in my camera then picking a random picture that someone else has taken of trees anywhere in the world and I now have to hit the button many times to find the “right” one.

I understand that photography generates waste images. I just don’t feel like it’s the same.