Photography obviously means different things to different people, for me it's mostly about trying to preserve a moment in time and the essence of an experience, of course if a picture is so blurred due to shake or movement, or if it's just plain out of focus or under/overexposed then it can't do that, but beyond these things, how far do you take it? Nature isn't perfect- how many adverts do I see for programmes to airbrush portraits because people aren't happy with the natural human form?! Try hard enough and you can find fault with anything, but if that's what it takes for you to find fulfillment, well, that's your call I guess.
One of my favourite images, taken on a Lumix TZ3 compact, in the days before I had a digital SLR isn't technically great, the sky is blown out in the centre, it may be a bit dark for some people's tastes, it's a relatively low resolution jpeg, I would have used a wider focal length if I had it to use at the time, etc etc. But the image conveys at least something of what I experienced that magnificent day- the lighting, the majesty of what I saw, the toil that it was to walk/climb to this point and how knackered I was, and a pursuit that I love. In short, a memory, something that makes me want to return.
