a critique of a fellow photographers work/image

You zapped all the life out of it. Post work is great for ad stuff but unless your work is commenting on the use of the technology it is very sticky to use it where it has no place. You have to start trusting your images. Photography at its base, the foundation is recording whats real, it has to do/show truth - that truth is blurred and stripped with all this post work. I'm not a hater but I've seen so many images lately that are awesome and then are ruined by post - stripped and cleaned of character, of what is mysterious in the truth of real life. I can't come back to these images again and again because they are only a one hit wonder - the levels of interest have been decimated or "cleaned up" as they call it.