A group of friends took a lovely photo together — all five of them, arms round each other. Later, one of them, Ivy, posted it. But she'd cropped one friend, Noor, out of the edge, so it looked like only four of them were there. When Noor saw it, she felt a small, sharp sting — she was there, she remembered the moment, and now the picture said she wasn't. Ivy said the crop "just looked better that way," that it wasn't personal, that Noor was reading too much into it. Maybe it really was just about the composition. But Noor was the one left on the cutting-room floor, and she couldn't help wondering what it meant. A photo can include people. It can also quietly remove them.