There isn't any reason to complicate this.
I went for a walk today. I went to one of my favorite spots down by the river, with woods all along it. I took some pictures.
I tried to take the very best pictures I could, but I could see right away they looked a little lonely, the pictures. The places I took the pictures of didn't seem lonely. They seemed happy. But the pictures seemed lonely and I wanted to cheer them up as soon as I could.
So I gave them animals. Well I mostly gave them animals. I gave a few flowers too. And a mushroom.
They watched me over my shoulder and said, change this and fix this and could you put a flower in the squirrel's mouth.
I could put a flower in a squirrel's mouth.
Then they were quiet for awhile.
"Do you want them to be less real?" I asked.
"Yes please." They said quietly, in a small voice I could barely hear.
"Should I make them look like Disney?" I asked.
They thought for awhile and then they shook their head yes.
I made them look like Disney.
They shook their head yes again.
I walked home. When I was almost there I looked at them.
I thought, wow.
"Were the woods I was walking in really this pretty?" I asked.
They looked over my shoulder again.
"Yes." They replied. "This is exactly where you were."
Which is just what you want your photographs to say.
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