I remember "Art Appreciation" back in about Grade School, with the teacher saying something like, "Look how the artist found all these wonderful colors in an ordinary scene." And me thinking, "Huh?" I tend not to do *too* much manipulation on any of my photos, but admittedly I would have a difficult time holding a job in photojournalism. We capture colors in different ways, sometimes using highly saturated transparency emulsions, sometimes really cranking up the contrast in the LAB mode channels, sometimes de-emphasizing them to B&W. Here's an image from last weekend. These canyons are dark. Where the sun does shine, it is blinding. The walls look mostly dingy gray/brown. The first surprise is seeing what more light (exposure) does to these walls. The first image in this series has no color adjustment, and there are colors here I certainly did not see in the original scene. The others have progressively more color enhancement. The third image is much more enhancement than I will usually try.