Truth in advertising
May 15, 2008 by prairiepoppins
I nearly chose the macro shot of Ur-Oma’s tea set for my Project 365 picture, but it didn’t feel quite true. Homeschooling tea rituals can take on a mythical quality. And our own personal attempts at them can seem so utterly inadequate by comparison.
Macro can lie by omission. Articles and blog postings can lie by omission. Or our own inexplicable minds can distort what we read into a Platonic ideal form.
The table is strewn with Pokemon books, drawings, a bag of papers for rolling coins, art supplies, leftover tools and pins from sewing projects, and all sorts of other bits and bobs. The bio of Mozart? Isn’t in the photo because Tias spilled the tea and it went all over the corner of the table.
That wider shot? It’s the real thing. A mix of sweet tea and crumbs.
Well, isn’t that the truth!?
I often wonder at my choice for blog photos, or my choice when I crop a photos…the reasons I give myself, the reasons that I don’t admit even to myself.
I often wonder why others choose photos…or the true story…the big picture.
Loved the two photos side by side. Both equally beautiful, both telling the two sides to a story.
Isn’t that life? Love it…our homeschool is also a mix of great things and “real life.”