Instagram

I enjoy my Instagram account for a couple of reasons: 1.) I get to post pictures of mine that I like, and b.) I get to look at others' pictures that I like. The genre, the nature of the pictures has evolved over time. I mean, I didn't realize it until a few days ago that I've been posting stuff here, I mean I.G., for years. 

Mine aren't particularly inspiring. I might take a picture of something odd, like a sparkly little girl's shoe perched all alone on top of a fire hydrant--I like the idea of a story or a mystery behind the picture. Sunsets which almost always fail to invoke the feeling of the original real one that took place in front of the lens. I post them anyway. Sometimes I take a picture with no particular meaning or content to it except I liked the shapes in it. I try to put hashtags on everything I post, but sometimes I just fail to, knowing that almost no one will see them. I don't really care. Too much, anyway. 

Here are some but not all of the types of pictures that I have to say I don't like, or at least that I think are over-represented:

Overly photoshopped, fantastical pictures, including those created with the use of high-dynamic-range processing that NEVER looks natural even though they are, I fear, intended to. A bicycle posing in front of a scenic view. Food, unless I'm really hungry at the moment. Decrepit buildings. Girls of some indeterminate age posing with lips pouting while wearing something vaguely, but definitely not legally defined as, pornographic, and girls wearing same while posing in front of decrepit buildings. Doorways/entrances of said buildings. Most sunsets, as mentioned above. The moon all by itself. I mean, what's the point? Fake moons photoshopped onto other scenes, especially when the fake moon is way too fucking big. C'mon! Knock it off. 

Special mention to video clips that are too long, where the intended "punch line," if you will, is the last two seconds of the video. I bring up video clips because I noticed, just today, that there is, (or perhaps has always been) a new thing. Short video clips with audio depicting just one small, pleasant moment. Three seconds of the sound of a bird chirping while showing a tree branch moving in the wind (assuming sound quality and visual composition is good/interesting.) I just saw one of a foggy street at night, a person and their dog crossing the street while a lighthouse swept its spotlight around one time, and the sound of a foghorn. Short and sweet, like a pleasant memory of something that, for some reason, just stuck with you. I really like these. It's like adding just a little more dimension (of sight and sound, as Rod Serling would say as he introduced that evenings Twilight Zone episode,) to the typical IG post. 

I don't mean this to be an ad for my Instagram account. I'm rdegr, but don't go looking if your domino set needs dusting or anything of equal or greater importance. 

Foghorn/lighthouse IG post I'm talking about: https://www.instagram.com/p/CW2YdIFq3el/