If the horse is dead get off.

If the horse is dead get off. So what are you talking about, well lets think about this statement in regards to Photography. If it is not working then try something different, are your images not doing well in the competitions you enter, why, is it they are just not good enough for the competition you are entering or do you need to look at the finishing, are you getting all the information out of your image. Most of the time the images that do well are just that 2% more finished, better post processing, better colour management, or tell a better story than yours. Are we trying to make our images too technically perfect & losing the story, the emotion that is there. Technique should never get in the way of your voice, never.Do not focus on Technique for the sake of technique but discover what it means to see rather than to merely look. Once you discover that technique is merely a detail, you will be free to create images that will change the world of the people who view it.
These are same image, I have added my creative self into them.