It is much the same with anything artistic you create. The challenge of setting up a photograph in your mind, and waiting until the sun goes behind the cloud, or the subject is at just the right point before taking the shot. you know It should have worked, but how did the vision translate? Is it right, or are there adjustments to be made? Once you have something to work from, the black arts of Photoshop, which resemble those of the darkroom but don't stain, they are your tool, to shape the vision.

The thrill of producing an image you are truely happy with, out of dozens of exposures, that's something special. Those are normally the images that makes someone else go Wow.