First, I will acquiesce to your contention that we have some folks who just cannot saturate, sharpen, and add enough contrast to their shots to suit them but I will also suggest to you that those people are in the minority overall and that you may not appreciate the full diversity of how our natural assets appear under all kinds of light whereas much of the UK stays in a perpetual state of dullness, a kind of beauty unto itself. The UK is a beautiful place with a unique beauty of its own as does the U. S. Beyond that, I have a couple of observations that may differ from our fellow uhh members. I mostly shoot wildlife and nature and try to do my best to ultimately represent what I see when I snap one off but having spent three years in UK, I can tell you that until that yellowish sulphur ladened coal smoke shroud that hovers over your country, settling on everything below it, clears from your atmosphere ceasing to create the overcast sky and dull appearance of everything on the ground a bulk of the time or until you have extensively visited most areas of the U.S. and had an opportunity to observe how things look in all different manners of light, you will probably continue to have little understanding of the differences in the way being out in nature is here as opposed to there. You cannot sit there in UK and understand the diversity of scenery we have here in all manner of lighting situations. If you have not traveled the U. S. at different times and observed what's here you don't have a clue how an image should appear in even the most usual light, let alone in special lighting situations. You have unique scenery and lighting situations there just as we do here but mostly you do not have anything close to the diversity of scenery and lighting scenarios that we do here. It's different, all good, so leave it be.

The age of most things there and building materials used, the buildings, for example, makes them inherently antiquated appearing and often dull in contrast to many of the newer buildings you find here, as well as your collective manner of dress, the colors you use to paint many things, a lot of which is expected to absorb rather than deflect heat which may be attributed to some of the differences in our way of life more so than what we do as photographers, not to say that we don't generally lean more to the flamboyant, bright, colorful, UPBEAT, if I may, creations within our environment. Our minority cultures enjoy bright colors and much of that has found its way into our mainstream blended manmade cultural appearance and it's probably here to stay.

As for you preserving the English language as it was intended to be, surprise, surprise - language, like most other things in our environment is subject to morph and you change with it or you get stamped with the word "archaic." It's your choice but unlike some of my U. S. compadres here, I've lived and blended into your way of life as well as mine and the differences aren't just imaginative - they are very real.

Now, one thing you always have to bear in mind is that we are derived from that lousy lot of misfits, religious freaks, and convicts you dumped over here in order to make your more perfect land devoid of ignorance and stupidity, or so you thought. Well, we haven't changed much in a lot of ways and probably won't so perhaps if you want to understand us better, you should come over, join in, spend a few years traveling over here and be prepared to see things beyond your imagination. Many of your fellow countrymen want to be all but invisible and often with good reason. Many from the U. S. choose to be just the opposite. It happens. We are much more culturally diverse than you which probably explains a lot.

I lived in the Midlands, Leicestershire, and move around quite a bit and found pockets more tolerable but on balance I didn't find anything that would compare to much of the U. S. and I've lived in six different states from Florida to Colorado and traveled all up in the northeast and to California. Not saying that's adequate to make a call for everywhere but I think three years in the UK was plenty for there. I made many trips in all directions from Leicestershire to get a pretty good sense of what was going on most of the time. The UK is roughly the size of Arkansas and Louisiana combined so covering it isn't a big deal.