[a pretty god subject here!] Well, I usually obtain images with my old camera(not digital)without croping because I take my time and I need a lot of time (sometimes too much :))to shot my pictures - my friends say that I'm too damn calm as if I'm not ever goin' to die...:) With a digital is even easier - if I do not like the shot I delete it in the very next second; another one! Two moths ago, I've started to shot some macro pics with my old camera and to be honest I was very dissapointed when I've seen the result - only a few (4-5) from 15 shots turned out well and I'm pretty sure that I would've liked -in this case - to shot a greater area in order to crop my subject... The resize ratios don't necesarilly tell us about croping or not - I sometimes like to change aspect ratio without croping, for some reasons! When I crop a pic I usually keep the original ratio - that's for sure... Maybe some persons from the "old school" could say that if we crop the images we are not so good after all, but I'm pretty sure that sometimes croping is needed - simple and that...Why losing a beauty if is there, when you obviously could cut some unimportan details and obtain a greater result? So...To Crop or not To Crop... To Crop...Why not? :)