This is a picture, not taken, of multitudes of people taking pictures, holding awkwardly sized devices whose primary role in life is not taking pictures, the people standing and slowly rotating, trying to get a sense of the poorly lit spectacle, avoiding scores of lens flare producing lights, all the while ignoring the band playing music…

This is a picture, not taken, of a tree being towed on a boat, blocking the view of the truck in front and seen from a distance, its topmost branches waving wildly in the wind, with a small propeller sticking out from the bottom boughs, the blades slowly rotating, providing a convincing means of propulsion, and giving the illusion of jumping just above the asphalt river as it speeds away from me…