# Photoblog: Humans are social creatures

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2020-08-23

boating, boats, cities, drone-photo, drone-photography, lake, lake-couchiching, lake-photography, photoblog, photography, urbanism

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The above photo was taken on Lake Couchiching (off Lake Simcoe) with a DJI Mavic Mini.

Here is the _before_ straight from the drone.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c321faac357bfd0dc7e270f893de6ef5.jpg)

And here is the _after_ with my Lightroom edits. I then cropped it to a 4x5 aspect ratio because wide landscape photos don't show well on Instagram.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d6cf800c1bcd7ae9d7814c5e562f30c8.jpg)

For me, this scene is a reminder to remain bullish on cities. Take people out of the city. Put them on boats in the middle of a large lake. And they'll still find a way to cluster together.

Why? Because humans are social creatures.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/photoblog-humans-are-social-creatures)*