Self Portrait Sunday: Easter
This was taken for Self Portrait Sunday at DigiCass, a digital meme. It’s Easter Sunday, and we’ll be heading out around 2pm, so I wanted to get this up before I forget, like last week. :\
Here’s what I see when I look at this picture:
- I always think, wow, my hair is getting longer, then I see it in a picture, and I go, wow my hair is short!
- It startles me to see my eyes blue in pictures STILL. After 39+ years of red eye in pictures, when they come out actually blue, it throws me. I’m starting to get used to it from doing the Self Portrait Sunday series.
- No matter how much I don’t notice the red from my Rosacea, it still always stands out to me in pictures.
- I wish I was thinner, but I can look at my picture and not cringe anymore. Self Portrait Cass has helped me with that process. Seeing myself in pictures has always been hard for me, but the regular process helps me get over my disdain of seeing myself.
- This is what 39 looks like for a few more months. I turn 40 in June. I wonder what I would have looked like at 40 back in the 1800’s.
- I wonder who else will remember today is Self Portrait Sunday!
Beautiful picture, Deb! Your blue eyes startle me, too! They are so striking and beautiful!
This meme has really helped me a lot in the same ways that it has helped you!
Deb, great pic. I, too, love the digital age for what it has done for those of us with blue eyes. Did you know part of the reason I started the meme is because there are so few photos of me? I’ve been going throught that same acceptance process you described. Sometimes I take over a dozen pictures before I get one I consider acceptable.
And, my birthday is just one month after yours!
I think you are beautiful…inside and out!
I love seeing pics of you! Suni said it best
Beautiful!!
You look great! I love your eyes. Very stunning.
I love SPS because I get to take pictures of myself, therefore there are more pictures of me. I’m not just behind the camera anymore.
First and foremost, you are a beautiful woman. Don’t ever let yourself think for even a moment that that is not true.
Deb, your eyes are arresting and I’m jealous of your coloring. I’ve always been “the dark one” and that has been amplified and toughened to leather by twelve years of tropical sun. Ya know, I don’t look at myself. I put on my eyes (with a little lipstick, the only makeup I bother with anymore) and focus on an eyelid, an eyebrow … never the whole face. I was taught early that it was not something tha anyone wanted to see. Ya know what? I don’t care. I love seeing my friends faces, so I’ve taken the giant leap and returned the favor. So far no one has told me they were struck blind. :0)
Cass, I took twenty this itme You are sworn to secrecy about the “best fo the rest.” :0D