Can we really trust our vision?

In short: no.

I’ve been fascinated for years as to why there is a disconnect between what we ‘see’ when composing out in the field and what we often have on or memory cards / films. It’s a rabbit hole that one can disappear down, and that is exactly what I did. I learned that the human visual system has its own innate processing: everything we see is a ‘construction’ in our mind, and it happens so innately that we aren’t even aware of it.

Illusions such as this one by Science Girl are great at illustrating that what we see is a construction that happens in our mind’s eye. Once you begin to understand that ‘seeing’ is not ‘truth’, this gives you the freedom to realise that everything is open to interpretation, and once we know we are doing this, we can choose to go anywhere we want with our imagery.