June 2026 Theme Thread: Such a Beautiful Landscape (page 8 of 8)

Hello, My message just disappeared again on its own . I’m not starting over. Congrats to the winners! I love the photo that won the contest. A well-deserved first place.

Thanks! I hope the upcoming theme will let us see some of your photos 😊

I hope the upcoming theme will let us see some of your photos 😊

Thanks so much, Isabelle—that’s really kind of you to suggest it. It’ll all depend on the theme chosen. And besides, the thing is, if I *did* happen to win the contest ;) — you can always dream — I wouldn’t be able to organize the next month’s for various reasons. So I’d rather not take part.

I’ve always said that photography is a carrier of lies🤪

And you’re right 😉 Photography has been cheating since day one! Stalin erased his enemies from official photos in 1937 using double exposure, Mumler made "ghosts" appear behind his clients, leading people to believe they were communicating with their deceased loved ones... Every time a new technology comes out—Photoshop in the '90s, AI retouching tools in 2020, and now generative AI—people cry scandal: photography is dead! But photography is inherently about omission and doesn’t need AI to deceive. If you shoot a protest, the message changes depending on your framing. A tiny Airbnb can look like a spacious, bright loft just by how you take the photo. A politician photographed from a low angle looks like an emperor! Every angle choice is emotional manipulation. We’ve accepted all of this without batting an eye since photography began. But generative AI, which creates images without any capture, isn’t photography! Though that’s another debate... The real issue isn’t replacing a sky or using HDR—it’s when the deception becomes toxic, like retouching models’ bodies, which pressures teens to present a "perfect" image on social media.