If you have been paying attention to the news recently, you may have heard that the Oxford Dictionary declared “selfie” as the word of the year. That is a rather disturbing piece of news for those that value photography and how beautiful a well-taken photograph can make the subject look. Selfies are rarely very good, yet it is the method of “photography” that more and more people are using to show themselves off to the world. An even more alarming trend is that the selfie is