Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.

Seeing creates growth.

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself.

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.