What follows is a stream of conscious piece about what happened to be on my mind today. Enjoy
We live in a age of the perfect photo. Facebook, Twitter, Steemit, Instagram ect... all filled with mostly flawless photos. What I wonder when I see a photo on social media is just how many times it took to capture that moment. How many retakes? how many other more spontaneous shots found their demises in the digital trash bins of a ten thousand digital cameras?
It it wrong? Hell, I don't know. What makes a photo any different then writing and then re-writing a blog post or rerecording a song or part of a blog post or a stand up comic revising a joke?
Yet for some reason this bothers me. I don't exclude myself here I'm guilty of retaking photos myself from time to time.
Maybe it is because people seem to present photos as a captured moment in time while other things (writing for example.) are relatively known for massive rewrites. (sometimes)
what put me on this though process was me thinking about how photos use to be taken on a roll of film with a limited number of shots where the results could not be seen until the roll was develop. You got what you got and often I believe this captured many more candid and honest moments. The ones with real smiles and mistakes and embarrassing moments that could be laughed at and enjoyed for countless years to come.
I could rewrite this post. There are certainly spots where I could phrase a thought better or write more examples but I want to keep this loose and organic. A true stream of conscious writing.
I think I may end up writing more on this in the future. I have more to say and more thoughts to think but for tonight I want to at least purge the immediate idea from my mind.
Have a good night Steem it