I'd appreciate that, actually. I've only stopped short of going back to the last 6-7 contests and showing what people do to images to win them. I mean it's almost to the point that people aren't posting what's out in SL as much as it's art based on what they saw in SL. It's good art, but it's not what they took a photo of in the first place.

It just bothers me that people can't take beautiful pictures, they have to overly enhance them. But, I shouldn't be surprised. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U) Take a look at this video, it's an eye opener and something that will show you what I mean. Accepting beauty for what it is also means you need to accept that "beautiful" is sometimes "ugly". It's not airbrushed, photoshopped, altered and enhanced to be something it never was.

So when I see that same thing happen in SL, a place where people create themselves in the first place, it just bothers me. It's like when a pianist says they're going to perform a Bach piece not as it was written, but "as Bach would have intended it to sound!"

So unless I'm making an artistic statement (cartooning an image, for example, to intentionally make a point) I'm posting raw screen shots for contests. SL isn't photoshopped, why should I have to make it so to win a virtual photography contest? I mean isn't that the point of photography? to NOT 'shop an image to within an inch of it's life to alter what should have been well taken in the first place?