Brighter Days

Whenever I imagine scenes from the past, whether they're of Ancient Rome or my own ancestors around the turn of the nineteenth century, my mind inevitably envisions things in black and white, or on rare occasions a muted sepia palette. Popular media has engrained those dull scenes in my imagination, largely because of the evolution of photographic and videographic media themselves. But of course, that's not how things really were. Our vast and vibrant world has always been here! Our predecessors explored scenes as beautiful and prismatic as the ones we all enjoy today. Hot springs were dazzling pools of hues, glacial lagoons were frigid chunks of white floating in a sea of azure, an...View all