As stated prviously I like to "see" a picture, and then just take it as it is in the viewfinder.  I much admire photographic work that stands on the merit of the original observation and the whole original viewfinder composition. Like the photographers I admire, I always attempt the absolute minimum of post processing of the image after I have recorded it. It is something that I attempt whenever I can.

I have become absolutely staggered at the huge amount of modern photography that has come to be dependent on large amounts of post processing of the image for its impact. To me these often highly processed images pushes them more and more to misrepresent what was originally there and seen in the viewfinder. I can really admire such work but personally prefer the less time intensive, less laboured, less pictorialist, less imitative, and more spontaneous modernist approach to photography.

I guess I am a bit of a reactionary to the almost universal tyranny and reliance of Photoshop and other software packages upon photographers. It often pushes them more towards making photo-illustrations or imitations of 'painterly' "fine art", rather than exploring the intrinsic properties of photography as a medium in its own right.