Photographic Allegory

Doesn't it seem that all the photos we take with out minds (and our cameras) are always overly saturated and contrasted? Burn, dodge, burn, dodge. Trying to make the colors more vivid. Trying to make everything something more than it really is.

Tomorrow, today will mean relatively nothing and our overly dramatic sense of self will become more fleeting than one could have ever imagined.

Tomorrow, we'll put on the same clothes that we have a hundred times before, walk out the door, and begin to manipulate our surroundings until we get something that we think is beautiful and makes sense. But under all those layers of tweaking the brightness, saturating, desaturating, reducing noise, applying filters, adjusting shutter speeds, ISOs, aperturues, focus rings, tripods, everything is still the same.

I just can never tell whose levels I've changed to suit my own needs. People are so tricky. Trusting people is hard.

...We can always just crop them out...