You brought the big camera to the river, and you took four pictures.

Four good ones. What did you take with your phone?

Eleven, and two of them are better than your best.

That is a bold thing to say about a phone.

Look at the light on the water. Your camera cut it away, because it was trying to save the sky.

Mine kept the sky and lost the water. Yours lost the far bank, and it is soft at the edge.

That is the one fair thing you said today. It is soft because I held it wrong, not because the phone is bad.

So we agree that the tool fails in the hand.

We agree that both of us failed in different places.

I paid for a camera that lets me decide after I take the picture. On a phone you cannot fix a soft edge.

I can. There is a free tool on my page that makes the edge harder.

It makes the edge look painted.

Only when you take it too far, which you do with the camera too.

I will give you that. What I will not give you is that it is the same work.

Why not?

Because with your phone I must stand in the right place at the right second, and with mine I still have a choice after.

And that choice costs you what, two years of my pay?

Yes. And on a day like today it buys me nothing, so about those four pictures you are right.

Then let us go back to the water before the light goes. You keep the sky, I keep the bank.

And we show each other all of them, not only the two that look good.

That is the first honest offer you have made today.