I can shape light the way a painter works a canvas, hours spent coaxing one soft glow across a face. Then someone holds up a phone, taps once, and the crowd says it looks just as good. I've spent a lifetime learning this, and I'm quietly grieving how little anyone can even see the difference anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
You've mastered light like an art, and it aches that a phone snapshot gets called just as good.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.