Bali and Photography - Modern Photography in General.

Bali and Photography - Modern Photography in General.

The biggest thing about bali and photos is that they are all a perfectly curated lie.

Take the above photo, it's almost perfect. I was to lazy to getup to properly aim my camera, but I do enjoy the optical zoom making it out so clear. Yes this is an average photo on a western Bali beach.

But the reality is this :

Still pretty, still nice. But not as alone, isolated or perfect as a lone photo makes it to be. I still do not enjoy how a photo and a slight description or hashtag can form an narrative in my head that is completely inaccurate. Well, I guess not completely, the sunset is real, the sunset is pretty, but the unique or isolation of it is not.

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