pictures lie

Just fyi

My stories are like pictures. Not just my pictures but all pictures. 

See with a picture there’s the unspoken, immediate, and natural assumption that a picture is a depiction of reality. Capital “R” reality. Reality as it is. Reality as everyone unquestioningly knows it. 

Way wayyy back when the natives of such and such place thought voodoo of the camera as a device because of its reality depicting abilities. So much so they thought that the photograph snatched a man’s soul right from him

Nowadays we know better. At a base level a camera just collects radiation and turns it into other radiation that we can look at a little bit later on. Not even a little bit of soul snatching!

And nowadays we all even know that when you look at a picture of something you might can assume that its a reasonably accurate description of a scene but youre smart enough to know that the camera “lies”. The camera is a viewpoint. Sure it’s a pretty good re-teller of things but it embellishes and to a degree even makes things up!!

That’s how I’d like you to think of the things I put out here. Yeah they’re true but I do take liberties in the stories I tell and things I write about. Sometimes to make them easier to write about and sometimes to add a little flare to them. I won’t lie to you but I’ll take some liberties. That’s in part to say.. don’t get offended by everything I say. Or if you were a part of the story.. That I leave out.

Firstly, my goal is to entertain myself. I like doing this. And I’ve also found that I like to look back on things from years past (I’ve got journals galore) and laugh at some of the dumb things I did. Observations I might have had etc. That’s all these are — a sort of open journal. 

And with it being open. A few things need… the selective eye of the camera. 

So enjoy!