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I'd like to say thank you for capturing those images of my loved ones that have gone on to be with the Lord. Thank you for documenting the growing years of my son and the passage of time and fun memories our family has shared. I'd like to say, though, that since you stopped being a real camera and became an iPhone, I don't like you as much. Yes, you are convenient but I find you aren't quite the truth teller or the beauty recorder that you used to be.
At first, I thought it was just me. My photogenic face was older and heavier and perhaps it was just the passage of time but then I began to see that almost everyone looked worse on that small screen. Images were distorted, corrections that the eye easily makes are beyond your limited facsimile abilities.
Your camera does not capture nuances, for example, the light and shade in hair. When I was a young girl, my hair was indeed monochromatic, brown with a reddish cast, your grandmother, the 35mm captured it beautifully. You are incapable of such subtlety and relegate the very interesting shades of dark brown, gold, umber, white, gray, and cinnamon to dull brown with gray at the temples. Nor can you see the texture, curl, wave, and style - nope, just a brown football helmet.
The eyes... the eyes of the young girl held dreams and visions of the future, the eyes that look back at me from the mirror hold the fulfillment and the abandonment of those dreams and life well lived. The eyes in the pictures you produce just look tired. They don't capture the sparkle, nor the promise of fun things still to come.
That picture of us laughing, it does not capture the joy in our hearts or the love we feel for each other, it only shows an old filling and a double chin. You can not hear the laughter nor the snort that followed the hilarity. Your picture does not tell the truth.
How many times will I let you change my memory of how I looked on a special occasion? How many times will I believe the false message you record rather than the image in the mirror? Worse yet, why would I trust you over the people that love me? For, in the end, it is they who really matter.
You remember the Back to the Future movies with all the video phones? The reason that no one uses is them is that we all look like crap on them, nobody likes you iPhone camera.
Sincerely,
All of Us
