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| I took this? London, ON June 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
My photo archives are filled with them, badly focused, terribly composed, randomly blurred, accidentally taken images that are often only discovered hours or weeks later. And if I’m guessing correctly, I’m sure we’ve all taken countless pics like this.
Once upon a time I would have deleted them and moved on, and I certainly would have never shared them in a carefully cultivated feed. In a social media landscape where perfection is all we see, it should be unheard of to see…this.
But I wasn’t around when this so-called rule was first created. I wasn’t aware that storytelling always needed to be filtered, edited, and refined down to the very last pixel. So please forgive me if I choose to ignore convention as I allow this botched image to see the light of day.
It reflects a moment - coming home - that matters to me. That’s it. That’s the only criteria that should matter. Whether it’s perfect or horribly flawed, if it matters to whoever takes it, then it has worth.
And no one else gets to determine otherwise. Your shutter, your rules, even if you never intended to press the button in the first place.
Yet again, I seem to be drawing parallels between photography and life. Which means I probably have more messy photos, and stories, on the way. I’m sure you do, too.
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