..@ TomDart ----i like the way you think ------ a photograph and reality are just two different things -  much like Magritte's painting of a pipe with his caption " This is not a pipe! " ------------ and  if one actually went to the - say, landscape itself and started painting the grass purple -- or adding and subtracting objects -------- then I could see getting pissed off with 'processing' reality ----but that monitor image ---  or paper print in ones hands -- is just a sketch ,at best ,in trying to convey the subject. matter.