One-point perspective
The picture on the top is called "Partition," taken in 1982 by well-known French art photographer and Kodak Prize winner Édouard Boubat (1923 - 1999). You can purchase a framed print of it from AllPosters.com for $75. My doctor has it hanging on his wall, as one of the few pieces of Aht he visually presents to all his patients. He does this presumably to give them a sense of serenity and high aesthete, as well as to spend the vast sums of money he charges for his services. Mostly, I think it's because it's a lovely shot that's bound to evoke happy feelings in most of the people who see it.
The picture on the bottom is a lolcat picture without the captions. My doctor was unfamiliar with the concept.
The good news is that it's getting easier all the time to take better photos. I think this is on the whole a very good thing; discovery and a hunger for knowledge are among our oldest instincts as a species, and the more we can see the world around us, the more intelligently we're bound to treat it and every living thing in it.
And yet... as an amateur photographer, I'm deflated a little by this visual comparison. Certainly, an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters will reproduce the works of Shakespeare. But when you actually start arming all the monkeys of the world with better and better typewriters, what do you do about the aspiring Shakespeares? Who's the monkey and who's the Bard?