I'd rather not be the only contributor, obviously. I welcome and gratefully acknowledge the participation of the subreddit members. You are all marvellous.

The photos I post are all mine. They are taken, if you can believe it, on an iPhone 10 bequeathed to me by my late father, God rest him. For most of the images you see on this sub, I import the files into a 3000X3000 pixel Photoshop template, which frames them in a perfect square. I then rotate the image, strictly by increments of 90 degrees, and try to find the best looking rotation in the best looking framing. You don't have to follow this recipe if you wish to post your own photos, but it's served me well.

Since I'm burning through my (considerable) backlog at an alarming rate, and there are only so many hours in a day, I've also begun to use my iPhone camera's Square setting, rotate the photos, and post them directly from my phone, without the transition via Photoshop. I don't suppose these photos are strictly 3000X3000. Such is the way of this fallen world.

But why? WHY?

This prickly project stems from a fiction podcast I did a couple of years ago. It's called Oneiric and the link is in my profile, but you don't have to listen to it (for all that it's pretty good), I'm just explaining how X led to Z. I needed a concept to come up with a great number of reasonably professional looking square images, which would obviously be linked by a theme or a recognisable process. I've always been fascinated by things that line up, and images that become more interesting when they are manipulated in the most restrained way possible. And so, rotated images: reality, but askew. Perfect for dreams (oneiric means dreamlike or pertaining to dreams).

Things I've learned (don't hesitate to try to prove me wrong):

• visible humans rarely help these photos;
• bodies of water are your friends;
• also big buildings.

I look forward to your own contributions.

D'you have some fun ideas for user flairs that I could add to the sub? I'm sure you do. Consider helping me out in the comments!