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Day 7: A photo that makes you happy
(Day 6 was a free for all, which I decided it was an opportunity to not post.)
Florence: the view from the Ponte Vecchio
I took this picture and I know 1000 percent that it did not look like that in reality.
The picture seems really calm, devoid of people when in reality left and right and behind me were tons of people taking pictures, talking, swarming around. It's very saturated, very colorful which it obviously wasn't quite like that either.
Now it was a beautiful view, even reality, but the Florence that it shows does not exist.
Except, and this is perhaps why it makes me so happy, it is very much like I remember places. I have a fabulous memory for locations. And I remember places I loved much more vividly and romanticize them quite heavily insofar as I remove things that don't quite fit into the postcard-ness of it all.
This photograph makes me so happy because it takes me back to a memory rather than a reality.
Florence: the view from the Ponte Vecchio
I took this picture and I know 1000 percent that it did not look like that in reality.
The picture seems really calm, devoid of people when in reality left and right and behind me were tons of people taking pictures, talking, swarming around. It's very saturated, very colorful which it obviously wasn't quite like that either.
Now it was a beautiful view, even reality, but the Florence that it shows does not exist.
Except, and this is perhaps why it makes me so happy, it is very much like I remember places. I have a fabulous memory for locations. And I remember places I loved much more vividly and romanticize them quite heavily insofar as I remove things that don't quite fit into the postcard-ness of it all.
This photograph makes me so happy because it takes me back to a memory rather than a reality.
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That's such a lovely picture and a lovely explanation behind it.
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