This is a very good text.
And a beautiful picture.
I agree with you it's not about being the best.
I take photos for myself.
It'a all about pleasure. A pleasure to find something interesting, a pleasure of a beautiful place, view or even an unuasual thing. Then I sometimes need to use effect afterwards. But it's always the pleasure of the memory, of the treatment, of the beauty.
It's about how I feel first, and then how will feel people in front of my pictures. Will they have the same feeling than me? Will they like it?