Photographic Manipulation

The extent to which photography has gone is beyond limitations. The continuing expansion of photography in the presence of the technological revolution shows that it has no bounds and is quite fascinating at that. The mere fact that any photograph can be taken and copied or manipulated (to produce a chosen image) is eerie in the sense that what you are looking at does, in fact, not exist. Photography is a form of art and should be considered as such, and only as such. By people being able to doctor pictures, it is showing that they are expressing what they want people to divulge. It is scray to think that someone can walk past me and take a picture of me; and then, the next day, on the internet there is a picture of me kissing a donkey's ass or something. Yet I would know for a fact that it never happened. However, who would believe me if people often tend to believe what they see? At least if people saw that it was a drawing or something then it would simply be regarded as a drawing and a thought and nothing more. It is hard to believe what you see if it is a reconstructed representation of reality,which allows for an extreme case of manipulation. A representation of reality is not reality in itself, but a simple representation of that reality; and, what is not real is basically a creation of humankind.