There is this standard that photography should not cost a lot of money (specifically in this digital age with the addition of AI and image quality of iPhones - which could never fully replace a mirrorless or DSLR but does a pretty damn good job for what it is). Examples below of the things I have been asked or have seen others complain about online:

“You’re just holding a camera and pressing a button. Anyone can take a picture. I don’t understand why it costs so much!”

To that I say, you’re right, anyone CAN take a picture in the same way that anyone CAN sing, and anyone CAN draw, but you’re not going to ask your friend Ashleigh with no background, training, or skill to sing at your wedding just because she likes to sing “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston on karaoke night. We’re confusing capability with caliber.

Welcome to “The Life & Times of Shilo Rayne”

Yes, the painter but also the infamous lighting pattern used by photographers to create dramatic yet simple lighting for their portraits

Time

Creeps in places where you don't even notice it

Dust on your shelves

Bills that are past due

Dirty laundry piling up in the basket

Coffee now gone cold

The lines slowly creeping their way onto my face

It's another friends wedding

Another birthday

Another funeral

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. - K.L. Toth