My friends don’t ask me to take pictures of them anymore. I get bored with traditional pictures: the typical pose, the typical frame, with faces and bodies being effectively placed to include background, and with eyes meeting the lens perfectly. I tend to frame them differently at the last moment, stepping to the side for an alternate angle, or zooming in on the eyes. These always seem more memorable to me. Unfortunately, my friends think so, too, but in a negative way. So, I enjoy getting to play around with published pictures in front of a class, especially when they are already in Seeing and Writing and available online. Chapter 7 is great for this. A lot of students are aware of how photographs can be digitally manipulated, but they probably don’t think about the mundane, crucial manipulations that happen more often: images being framed in the moment and cropped later, and images being lightened and darkened. I like thinking about alternatives, especially with photographs (which is good for when I teach this chapter, but not for when I take pictures of friends).