Oh that reminds me. I can’t post one because she asked me not to put any photos of her on the internet long ago and I will honor that, but many years ago I took a photo of my (at the time) girlfriend in front of some old cornstalks in autumn.

She had beautiful and completely natural blonde hair and the dead stalks were exactly the same color as her hair.

I showed the photos to a friend and she complained that they they were “staged.” I said of course the pics were staged. We we driving. We saw the corn. I said, “I bet you’d look lovely in front of that corn that’s the same color as your hair.” We pulled over and I snapped a few shots on Kodak 35mm slide film. We got back in the car.

The photos turned out great and we were both proud of of them. To this day, I cannot imagine what my friend was expecting. That we were just walking through some random cornfield and started taking photos? That some corn just started growing around my gf and we stood there until it matured and then died and then I snapped the photos? It reminds me of how a lot of Gen Z doesn’t seem to understand that movies can be complete fiction.

Just such a weird thing to say.