Winning 2012 National Geographic Pro Photo Contest with Fujifilm X-Pro1 Locked

Ryan Williams wrote:

As I said before, touching up is absolutely pervasive in photography and always has been. Sometimes it's a zit or a red eye that's removed, sometimes it's a bag that's blown into frame. If a photographer (or often subject) would prefer it be removed, that doesn't suddenly make something not a photograph.

I mean by all means you can disagree with that definition, but based on your behaviour in this thread I doubt anyone's going to lend any credence to a thing you say. Vitriolic attacks against a guy you know nothing about who's freely admitted he messed up and explained what happened are unnecessary and borderline disgusting to see in a community that's generally reasonably mature.

It's not like the guy was even trying to deny he'd broken the rules, indeed his post was clearly intended to be more of a cautionary tale than anything else. Of course you wouldn't know because you haven't actually read it, seemingly preferring to spend the few minutes it'd have taken you filling this thread with poison instead.