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My dad always had a favorite saying. "Don't believe anything you hear and half of what you see."

This was often fairly good advice. And even more so when it comes to photography, digital or conventional. For one thing, and especially with digital photography, it is all too easy to enhance any image to bring out colors or manipulate lighting. But even within the camera itself, there are so many variables that will alter the scene as it's captured onto film or into the memory. All too often I find the automatic settings of my own camera altering the image to the point where it doesn't look quite like the real thing. Most often the colors are not quite as brilliant and the image is just a bit dulled. Such as in the images above. The original image was exactly what the camera captured. The image posted here is my over-exaggerated and over-enhanced shot. The original image (hold the mouse pointer over the image)  was, in fact, not quite as brilliant as what I was seeing with my own eyes. whereas the enhanced image is somewhat over done. Which is the point I am trying to express. Don't trust every picture you see. Like we have learned over the years how advertising and publications often embellish their images to bring out eye colors or skin tone or even body features in models, they also do with so many other things.

So next time you look in a magazine and marvel at an unbelievable sunset, just keep in mind that there may be a really good reason why you should not believe it.

However, I do maintain that, unless it's a "Graphical Wednesday" image, all of the images in all my other categories are real.

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