Some thoughts about nature photography

As I work with my images I sometimes can't stop feeling that I'm crossing the line that divides where you show a true, realistic piece from an image that is too far away to express that. It's almost like a showdown between a journalistic and a purely artistic view of it.

I try to display my most of images as I caught them in the moment, the light, shades, and especially colours. But as I work with film primaliry colours often get a bit distorted and as I feel i need correct them, it can at times feel wrong if I turn them out to look really good, perhaps a bit better than when I actually shot the image. This can very much apply to the light as well.

So where goes the line when you want to display nature as it is, but still presented at it's best?
These days I feel that as long as I don't turn my images into stupid extreme-HDRs I'm pretty much safe. I almost feel minimalistic sometimes, like when i trash images that look awesome but doesn't really convey the reality anymore.

Where goes your line?