Take the Photo ✦ A Love Letter to Over-Documenting Everything

Romanticising the now, one snapshot at a time, because moments deserve to be remembered.

Welcome back to the Muchier universe ✿

Apologies for the little hiatus but more to come on that next time :)

Lately, I’ve been thinking about Bad Bunny’s song "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" (immediately starts singing the song though I can most definitely not speak spanish) and that TikTok trend from earlier this year; people sharing old photos of loved ones who have passed. It’s beautiful, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s a reminder that sometimes a photo is all we have left.

There’s something about looking back at an old picture that hits different. The blurry ones, the accidental candids, the selfies you thought weren’t cute at the time. The photos we almost deleted but didn’t (yes, even the ones with your ex).

But before we get too sentimental, let’s be real: taking a million pictures of everything can feel cringe. And even I’m still working on getting over that.

The Cringe of Over-Documenting (And Why It Doesn’t Matter)

We’ve all felt it. The awkwardness of pulling out our phone in public, the eye rolls from friends when we stop for “just one more” group pic, the silent judgment we assume strangers are making when we film a random street because the light just looks really good.

But here’s the thing, the cringe is mostly in our heads.

✦ No one actually cares that much. And if they do? You’ll probably never see them again.
✦ What’s worse: feeling mildly embarrassed for 10 seconds or wishing you had taken the photo years from now?
✦ If Bad Bunny has taught us anything, it’s that memories matter. And sometimes, those tiny, random, over-photographed moments turn into the ones we cherish the most.

And even if you don’t appreciate the photo in the moment, one day you’ll look back and be so glad you took it.

Taking the Photo is an Act of Love

Think about it: when you love someone, what’s one of the first things you do? You take pictures of them. You capture the details, the small moments, the things that feel like nothing at the time but end up meaning everything.

We romanticise old polaroids, vintage film photos, and home videos from the 90s. But right now, we’re making the next era of nostalgia.

I want to know what moments are living in your camera roll right now, share them with me or someone else, as long as you take them!! In that same spirit here’s 4 pictures I took recently.