Before you read my “Fake News” story, look at Dave’s owl photos on the TGO Photo Club page.  He wrote to tell me how pleased he was with the photos.

____________HERE IS MY STORY – HONEST____________________

What is truth?  I do not know, do you know what is true?  I saw 128 actors advertising stuff on TV this morning.  Did actor number 37 really feel the pain I saw on his face. Was what I saw the truth?

One advertisement said something to the effect that “These are real people, not actors”   I guess actors are just fake people? Is that the truth?

My mom was a real christian lady. I remember she, had pictures of Jesus on the wall, maybe even one on black velvet, also one as a book mark, and one as the second page of her Bible. Jesus looked a little different in each image. Was only one image true?

I found, in my research, that the oldest known portrait of Jesus, was dated about 235: “It shows him as a beardless young man of authoritative and dignified bearing. He is depicted as being dressed in the style of a young philosopher, with close-cropped hair and wearing a tunic and pallium – signs of good breeding in Greco-Roman society.”  Of course no photographs of Jesus were ever taken. We have to accept the artist’s rendering because the first photographs were made in the 1800’s.  Too bad, ’cause you can always believe the camera – right?

The rising sun: I focused on the sky – my i-phone camera’s computer  said: “Oh my, lots of light,  I must snap lens quickly”

The rising sun: I focused on dark foreground – my i-phone camera’s computer  said: “Oh my, It is very dark, I must hold lens open a little longer.”

Which image is true? Do you get a different emotion from each?

In my research I found this: “Happening-truth is an objective factual account of events as recorded in the mind of a human at the time of the event with biases and a reason to influence the reader.  Story-truth is a subjective reflection of a person’s thoughts and feelings about the same event when retelling that story.  Since both are told by humans with biases, thoughts, and feelings, I see no difference between happening-truth and story-truth except the timing.  Are they both true or are they each shaded by the teller’s biases, thoughts, and feelings and, thus, not quite true?

So, that is why I conclude all stories of news are somewhat fake.  So study carefully  each story you read, hear, tell or snap a photo of.  Identify what you think is true and ponder what might not be quite true.

Oh my, would you please study the photos below and tell me if it is true that I enjoy playing around with PhotoShop:

Oh my, I somehow I thought of this when I studied the darker of the two photos above.

I often sit and ponder clouds in the sky and me as the young boy on the farm

What in the world makes my mind show you such twisted news

This is not a fake photo – at least I did not touch it with PhotoShop.  I have seen, in our lawn, many wild animals – deer, gators, eagles, sand hill cranes, snakes, and yes, even wild turkeys.  But I never had this happen before. This turkey followed me into the garage. I think someone is feeding them and he thought he might get lunch

Speaking of lunch – how about Breakfast? – several real photos put together and painted with a PhotoShop brush.

Oh my, as you swing through the news remember a little of it may be fake – but then so are most things we enjoy – even two photos of the same rising sun