What the Wedding Photographer Captured That I Couldn't See

Chapter 1: Cracks in a Perfect Composition

When I adjusted my bridal veil for the 11th time, an unnatural reflection suddenly flashed in the viewfinder. This million-dollar cliff wedding was being filmed before the rainstorm, and the groom insisted on keeping the champagne glass that was broken during the first dance as a "witness of authenticity."

"Caitlin, your mascara." I pretended to wipe the black smudge under her eyes, but in fact I used my thumb to wipe the needle hole on her collarbone that was bleeding. It was smooth as porcelain when I tried makeup three days ago, but now it was crawling with centipede-like sutures.

Drones roared in the sky, and the groom Jason hugged his wife with the precision of surgical forceps. When I stuffed the spare memory card into the crevice, the sea breeze brought a corner of his whisper: "...The second stage transplant was successful..."

Chapter 2: The Missing Sixth Bridesmaid

The first abnormality in the dinner photos appeared at three in the morning. When I was retouching the photo, I found a half-blurred figure on the left side of the group photo. The light blond curly hair matched the bridesmaids on the invitation - Emma, ​​who was supposed to have died in a skiing accident three months ago.

"You must have remembered it wrong." The head of the wedding company wiped his sweat, "We have only had five bridesmaids." Half of a medicine box was exposed from the inner pocket of his suit, and the logo on the label was the same as the biotech company Jason invested in.

Even more bizarre was Caitlin's pupils. After enlarging the RAW format file, the top layer of the cake reflected in her iris was clearly the blood vessel pattern of the human kidney. In reality, the cake was decorated with roses.

Chapter 3: The truth of double exposure

When I saw Caitlin in the morgue, she was wearing a wedding ring on her left ring finger that did not belong to her. The forensic doctor said the cause of death was heart paralysis, but there were traces of microinjection in the carotid artery.

"Look at this." The detective pulled up my wedding video. At the 0.7 second moment when the bride threw the bouquet, the lights in the bridal room, which was supposed to be empty, were turned on in the background, and two figures wrestling were clearly reflected on the curtains. The most terrifying detail is that Caitlin was smiling at the camera at the time.

Suddenly, 32 unshot photos appeared in the hard drive. The last photo showed Jason holding a culture chamber on the edge of a cliff, and the face floating inside was Emma.

Epilogue: 0.3 seconds after the shutter was pressed

Now it was my turn to hide in the darkroom to develop the last film. What emerged in the developer was not an image, but a DNA double helix structure diagram, with each base pair marked with the name of a different woman.

The doorbell rang. In the surveillance video, Jason was holding the broken champagne glass, and the lipstick mark that did not belong to Caitlin remained on the edge of the glass. He held up the tablet to the camera, and it was a real-time surveillance of my daughter's kindergarten.

"You haven't forgotten, have you?" He tapped the edge of the tablet, "The wedding package includes a lifetime memorial service."

(The red light in the darkroom began to flash, and the unexposed photographic paper automatically developed a line of words: Don't turn around, she is in the blind spot of your viewfinder)

Ending: Now, check the third row, left, of your wedding photos

(If you notice extra hand shadows, strange reflections, or nonexistent objects in the pupils of your friends and family in any group photo - please send the original photo to [email protected]. Of course, this is just a made-up visual art experiment.)

As you swipe, pay attention to the sour smell of developer on your fingertips. Was everyone really there at the last wedding you attended?

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