My few cents worth... Photography Gallary must have what?? Photographs..... ofcourse. Manipulation, curing, correcting, merging layers, overlapping...... well, I personally see nothing wrong with those for it only helps in enhancing ones artistic talent/calibre. At the same time I feel that photo composition using only the camera, within the frame is true photograhic genious. Like our friend Jimry......hardly ever uses crop or use brightness, contast enhancement etc., He is very much committed to compose th photos within the Camera. Similarly, there are many other photo artist here who do likewise and my hats off to them. I have used photo curing technique like... clonnng, erasing, enhancing contrast, adjust brightness and so on primarily because of certain situtations beyond my control. For example..... I took a cool butterfly shot and on the background you could see an empty wine bottle, a cigratte box, poly bags and what not. It really creates an irritant in the photowork, so, I have meticulously worked hard to remove those wherever they cause too much visible distractions. I am sure there are many like me who have felt similarly and have had to do some post work. Now a suggestion to get over this debate. When we go to upload pictures, we first select the Gallary, then the Genere and title and so on. I would suggest that either a new box maybe introduced which may specify if any post photowork has been done or if its a pure photo in it's raw form from the camera. Or else.... it could be part of the Genere itself......... or maybe a Gallary for untouched photos?? These are some of the options that I would recommend. Honestly, I have never used the mixed medium or 2d gallary to post my pics ever. Maybe, renaming it would help me look towards that direction. The bottomline is... other than Monthly Challenges, we as artist of this Great site should not look down upon the creative emphasis by an artist and hampper their natural flow of talent by restricting their post photo emphasis. For...... some of us are using camera as just another tool in our creative exploration. I remember a remark by Kro in one of the posts the other day.....the artist had explained in detail how he had post effected the photo upload and kro says........ Do not disclose how you created the dream. Let the dream be itself for us to enjoy it and I see truth in it....he is right to large extent. I am sure whatever comes out of this discussion would only help in betterment of the site here and I hope everyone agrees to it despite diffrences of opinion. Peace!! SNAKEY