You looking at me?

Still enjoying the free app Instagram on the iPhone, which lets me take a photograph in square format (as with the old 6x6 120 roll films), and apply a single filter to it, which gives it a retro look and feel.

In this case I used the Nashville filter, which includes the black border with orange text.

First person to see this photograph said, "Not too flattering is it?"

Now, surely, the only proper understanding of that assessment is that I must look better in real life! My Japanese Panasonic digital camera, the very latest model that I purchased in Japan last month, has a "beautification mode" that we are assured emphasizes one's natural beauty and somehow covers up for one's defects, should one have any defects to begin with, of course...what would the algorithm do if such compensation was unnecessary? All those years of research and development...how would the algorithm feel about that, I wonder.