Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Cropping the Shot

Perhaps this is lazy but I knew I would crop this shot in post editing. For one thing. I most often do, for another I knew it would be easier to frame it this way. Does that make me less of a photographer? Perhaps. Or maybe I should have just left it alone. What do you think? Click on each to get a better view of each image.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Cropping the Shot