Alex St-John
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

My travels to different temples in Thailand had me thinking these old buildings are built in strategic places, where the magnetic energies point to a „higher ground“. Insight came when almost all of the photos I took on these „holy“ sights gave a distorted our idea of level ground.

When taking a photo I thought was level with the horizon (and the object I was capturing) I was surprised to find, when editing using the crop feature on iPhone, that almost all of the images were automatically „straightened“ (realined) by the iPhone’s ability to detect such things – possibly by as much about 5 degrees, meaning I would then have to decide whether to reset that adjustment or leave it in the new „actual“ position, (which also often meant that parts of the object were inevitably going to be cut out). The question remains which is „true“: the image I took or the one the iPhone proposes is more accurate?

Anyone wish to comment?