A Picture is Worth a Thousand....

Digital photography. An odd sort of beast. It's an innovation that's proliferated over the last twenty years, and been oddly quiet in doing so. It's brought with it immense change, but its been incorporated into things almost completely seamlessly. Think about it. Twenty years ago a photograph was a photograph. Now days, there is almost no such thing as a photograph that is published without being post-processed all to Hell. From simply adjusting contrast, to intensifying and exaggerating color, to shaving ten pounds off the latest hot model... its almost as if reality's just not good enough anymore. Think one could link rise in anorexia to the birth of photoshop? Now, with enough patience, anything can be produced into a realistic photo. Enough so where what was once a solid form of evidence is just as soon assumed to be falsified to a motive. Photographs simply just aren't real anymore. Its almost as if bad pictures and short clips from cell phones have a greater sense of 'real' than anything left to be found in magazines. How ironic is that? How long ago was it that grainy images were the ones we were worried about being fake? Surely you remember amazingly bogus pictures of Bigfoot and alien spacecraft. It's positively wacky. What exactly are you supposed to trust in an age where no medium is bulletproof, despite being absurdly convincing?

As with tootsie pops, the world may never know.