"The camera doesn't lie," says my friend, a professional photographer with long years in Japan.
Sure it does, I think. So do mirrors. So does the human eye. So does any conveyance that blends image with emotion. Beauty is up to the beholder, and the beholder sees and feels what he or she wishes, and not what is there.
Still, he insists . . .
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