Emmanuel, your processed pics look much better than the original ones. But that's the problem, they actually aren't real as in you could not have observed your processed pics with you own eyes but have to use some artifact to do so. It then becomes art as mentioned above. So it really depends what you are trying to achieve: snapping a memory OR an artistic impression of it.

The dirty little secret behind all this though is that most if not all pics that you look at and that you think "whoa I would love to take pics like that" look the way they do because they have been processed, the skill being how to process them, not how to take the pics or equipment used...