I haven’t done any serious new shots of myself for a while. A few opportunistic snapshots here and there, but nothing suitable for framing, so to speak. Comic Con is coming up and I’ll be there and I was asked for a photo, so this morning Donna (patiently) indulged me and we did some new ones. This one isn’t going out for a head shot, but I rather like it:
She wanted one with the orchids and I don’t usually do profiles, so…
I had something in mind more like this, though, since I’ve been feeling a bit more physically…well, the way I’d like to feel…
Sort of a catalogue feel, if you know what I mean. What you imagine in the mind’s eye is rarely what you actually get, but I don’t think I’m likely to look much better anymore, given the nature of time and such like.
Combination of surgery and doggedly returning to the gym. Cutting back on snacks, too—about all I allow myself anymore is the occasional oatmeal cookie.
I wanted to go for a noirish look, but I’m either just a bit too cheerful or not quite bleak enough. The best I can achieve is a sort of nod in that direction.
The hat makes it. That’s my favorite hat. Brought that back from Minneapolis many years ago. My cool hat. Sometimes I wear it to get in the mood to play some jazz, like here:
Michael LaRue shot that at the latest coffeehouse. That was a nervous night, actually, so the hat was as much camouflage and shield as affectation (the bosses were there that evening) but it goes with the kind of music.
Probably, though, the way most people will remember me (assuming they do) is with a coffee mug in hand.
This wholly self-indulgent post is…self-indulgent. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the reality, though. Looking out through one’s own eyes, from the stand-point of whatever homunculus one has constructed to act as what we call “self image” is in need of occasional adjustment. “Drift” in the sense of a mismatch between what you think people see and what is really there happens all the time. Being reminded we aren’t quite what we think we are isn’t a bad thing from time to time, and the occasion for new “promo” shots is a good opportunity to reassess.
On the other hand, it’s also a good thing when it turns out that things aren’t as bad as they could be.