Deception!
Scale:
We just really like that depth-of-field thing that you can do with the camera:
These photographs could be used to illustrate some New Testament parable, if one were really heavy-handed and inelegant about the way he illustrated New Testament parables:
This trip is becoming the chronicle of Spencer and Claire sitting on a series of picturesquely placed benches ...
Claire with the cover to her new album, Turley Mouth:
The Japanese Gardens ...
... and from another, enlightened angle:
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That picturesque benches observation, once again: