A note on AI.
As public use of AI is becoming more and more commonplace, particularly in art and photography. I think that each and every one of us deserves assurances. Before I move into greater detail, I want to make a few things clear:

We will never generate a photo or artwork using AI.

Our photos are all framed and cropped by eye, not AI.

All of the images on this site are protected against scraping.

It is my firm belief that the point of photography is to tell stories capture memories. Faking those memories by allowing a learning model to play at being Frankenstein with bits and pieces of other peoples stories, eliminates everything that makes photography special.

The time has come for we, the creators, to draw a line in the sand.

When the tools are just that, tools. Designed to enhance our workflow or remove the monotony of creating, then we should embrace and even celebrate them. This is why we accept certain systems that Ill detail below.
When the tools become more, a removal of creative expression. Devoid of imagination or soul. An attempt even to eliminate the human from the process of creation, then we, the creators, must seek to prevent them.It is my hope in the future that we implement a method to flag AI usage in image metadata, so that any use of AI during the process of creation is visible or even reversable by consumers.

The above being said, as mentioned earlier, there are areas that we will use or accept the use of certain AI tools:

Polishing

AI denoise.

We spend a lot of time working handheld in some of the worst lighting conditions for photography you will find. AI denoise is by far the best tool for making these images possible. 

Upscaling.

On rare occasions, if we have cropped an image particularly heavily we may use upscaling tools to increase the resolution of the image (however, if we do we will also mark these images as free to download or not available to purchase).

Levelling.

Although we do not use them, we do not necessarily oppose the use of AI powered grading and levelling tools for balancing a photo. Especially considering this is kinda an accessibility thing too to allow those with vision problems to more easily grade an image.
-In particular, this one is mostly personal preference to us as we believe that the human element in levelling and colour grading gives significantly more appealing photos.Typically speaking though, flaws are things to be celebrated in photos. Some of the images we are most fond of are the ones that are imperfect. So we would never use ai to make a photo perfect at the cost of character

Removal of distractions

Object removal and spot healing.

This is the ONLY generative tool we use, and this is only when necessary to save an image. 
(for clarity: we've used it to remove the odd yellow high vis from a shot, a confederate flag in a background, or the odd elbow from the edge of an image)

Masking.

Object masking in lightroom, Nobody likes manually masking a photo nor the time it takes, so when we do need to mask a subject to level the image or brighten up the foreground for example to focus attention on a subject, we will on occasion use ai powered masking tools to do so.