Camera never lies

The camera in my telephone, while very good at a lot of things, is not much good at things which are at any distance. For example, this shot of antique bridge (right) and cedar (left) taken from the gothic temple mentioned in the previous post.

Both bridge and cedar seem far smaller in the picture than they did when viewed with eyeball from the same spot. From which I deduce that the brain, in its wisdom, contrives to make distant objects of interest rather larger than the sizes of the corresponding images on the retinas would suggest. So while the camera might never lie, the brain clearly does. Which I suppose, in other connections, we knew already.

I note in passing that the detailing of the antique bridge - of quite recent origin, either by restoration or new build - had not been very well thought through. The fake stone finish of the face of the bridge had not been taken round the corner, under the arch, which made it look more fake than was pleasing. There is a very similar failing in the hole into the car park underneath the block of flats opposite the new car park at Epsom Station (see gmaps 51.333654, -0.269939 which irritates me every time I pass. Cheap or lazy architects are getting everywhere.