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Photos (PICS)- not necessarily safe for work, though that's not an excuse for wanton exhibitionism. Not everybody wants to meet Mr Peterson or, indeed, his friends.

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Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:18 / 18.12.02

When you see a photo of yourself, do you cringe? I've just seen a photo taken from a staff party a few months back where I had no excuse, such as being drunk, ill or tired, and my fragile self-esteem has plummeted. I just look terrible, I always do. My graduation photo was what made me cut my hair short and decide never to have long hair again, but, ugh...

16:28 / 18.12.02

Hmmmmmm, let me think.......I think the right thing I can safely say is that I will try to find a friend with a scanner or digital camera and upload my picture one of these days............and I would like to see the photos of the great ones who exclaimed johnson!? at some threads or something like that? One more thing. I have burly eyes. I don't see what is put in front of me. Show me a photo and I can try to visulaise the picture with a diffreent haircut.

16:47 / 18.12.02

Ah well the last photo I had taken was for Cholister's project on women and their sex toys. Despite being a bit nervous, I have to say that I was pretty pleased with the result. Made me feel better about myself than just about any other pic I have of myself, except a fab one of me playing bass guitar at a gig when I was eighteen. Rock 'n' roll!

16:54 / 18.12.02

I don't know if this is true, but it's said that people tend not to like photos of themselves because this isn't the way they're used to seeing themselves --i.e., in the mirror. Which means reversed. I don't generally like photos of myself, but I was looking through some shots on iPhoto & the one that I liked was one I took of myself in the mirror. Though I have no idea what this proves, except maybe that I'm not a vampire.

17:02 / 18.12.02

I like the ones where I look like someone else too. Someone younger and thinner. With mouth closed.

17:06 / 18.12.02

I have always hated the way I look in photos, especially when it features my body - there are a few exceptions, mainly those taken with enough time elapsed that I can better appreciate how I looked then, almost as if I were someone else entirely

17:54 / 18.12.02

That's very true. I always keep the best pictures of myslef and remember them. I never remember those unsightly pics of me

Mister Six, whom all the girls

18:19 / 18.12.02

Well, I never like any pics of myself...but in therapy it came out that I am dis-satisfied with my body because I do not fit a preconceived notion of how I should look... after long hours of talking it came out that this notion is based on comic books.

So... I know that but it helps little.. except now I'm ugly AND insane.

20:13 / 18.12.02

I look dreadful in almost all posed photos, and pretty decent in almost all candid shots. In the last actual photographer photos taken of me I look furious. Mostly because I am, because the photographer was an idiot. "Say shopping," my ass.

20:19 / 18.12.02

To my knowledge there are three decent photographs of me in the world, and one of those was taken when I was three, and one is black-and-white (so you don't get the usual pink-and-shiny-and-far-too-much-forehead effect). The other one is a fluke.

20:39 / 18.12.02

All the best photographs have me in them. Really.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:50 / 18.12.02

No. I always look fucking shite.

22:01 / 18.12.02

I look bad in them. Mostly because I have a smile that possitivly reaks of "I wore a brace for five years and didn't really open my mouth much". Really, it's very bad.

That said, the one on my provisional driver's lisence makes me look quite human. It's a bit freaky, really.

22:33 / 18.12.02

I always look like shite, but I think that's to do with learnt behaviour. My sister was always a camera whore when she was younger, posing for everything, while I just shrugged in the background and put on stupid faces. These days, she always looks better, from all that conscious or unconscious posing experience. Perhaps if I wore dresses more, it would help.

I only allowed my family to have my graduation photos on the condition that they never displayed them in public ever. They were fucking appalling. A few months of continuous heavy drinking will do that to you.

Murray Hamhandler

00:32 / 19.12.02

I've got weird self-image issues. I alternate between thinking I look a little bit of all right and thinking I look like a troll. That said, I think I photograph halfway decently. But I keep my ego in check by periodically drawing the most hideous self-portraits imaginable. Here's two photos of v. low quality that I just scanned minutes before seeing this thread...

...except not at all.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:53 / 19.12.02

Just show no fear.

Mom, Dad, I'm so sorry. And I want Mike and Andy's parentsto know I'm so sorry I took their sons to Blair with me...

01:51 / 19.12.02

Hmmmmm.....I've never thought of putting photos like that ofr others to see. Maybe I'll try some one of these days. The problem is a scanner or a digital camera. After scanning, I could store it as a attachment in hotmail at my friend computer(hope the hotmail attachment memory is large enough) and then open it at my computer.

07:28 / 19.12.02

Yeah I hate them too, but that's hardly suprising since I have issues. I also hate the way I sound too, you know on film or just a recording of my voice, I sound like I've came straight off the fishing boats "Do I really sound like that!!!?"

That's why I'm getting an implant in my throat that'll allow me to change my voice as I see fit

pointless and uncalled for

14:39 / 19.12.02

There are a handful of good photographs of me. Almost all of them have been taken by people who were in my photography class in Canada.

The rest are utterly depressing.

Of course the resultant theories from this life lesson are a) most people havn't got a clue about how to handle a camera apart from pressing buttons in a roughly random order a) problem that is greatly exacerbated by the proliferation of digital and b) everyone, without exception, is photogenic under the right photographical procedures.

15:01 / 19.12.02

I've had a couple of photos taken of me which are alright. The rest are atrocities. One of the nice ones is now years old, it was taken by a mate on a demo years back and I didn't get to see it till last year.

Doesn't look like how I thought I looked at the time or how I wanted to look - more like me as I was, which I can kind of accept. Perhaps the distance fo the years makes it acceptable, even with the long hair and dodgy specs.

The Natural Way

15:12 / 19.12.02

Well, interestingly from the "special" angle: the photos of me that adorn the office have won me the name "Special Timmy". I look real good in some, but in others the....*gifts* run rampant.

Matthew Fluxington

15:35 / 19.12.02

"Behold! The Eye Of Tannhauser!"

I really hate the way that I look in photographs. The weirdest thing is that I find that I look very different in reflections and in mirrors than I do in photographs. I really don't understand that at all. I avoid being photographed as much as I possibly can.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:19 / 19.12.02

I'm a bit of a reflections whore, in that I do like glancing at myself in mirrors and stuff, and occasionally looking at myself with the same kind of horror people get at a really good car accident but, with apologies to Persephone, I think my problem with photos isn't exactly the one she suggested. I can hide from myself in my body, can avoid looking at it in a way people around me can't, and the photos remind me of that physicality in an every day setting.
What sparked this off was the photos of the leaving do for my ex-boss, where I let the inner tranny out. At the time I had a great time, but now I see a photo and it merely emphasised all the things about my body that I don't like, in a way that doesn't happen even if I were to look at myself naked.

So the answer is obviously to be all like Colonel Kurtz in 'Apocalypse Now' and spend my time hiding in darkness, and twat anyone that looks like Dennis Hopper who comes near me with a camera.

16:30 / 19.12.02

Uh, a relationship with the person, not the incidents. Obviously.

Goodness Gracious Meme

17:10 / 19.12.02

Awwww, special little speckle.

And Ouch. That eye leaps out at one rather suddenly. Nice eye tho'.

I used to think I was utterly unphotogenic and/or hideously (like Kit Kat I had The Good Photo, taken about six years ago by a photographer friend), but over the last year or so have had several photos of me taken that I *really* like (Big shout to the much missed Ierne for taking at least 50% of these.), and that look at least 75% of how I imagine myself to look, and the other 25% is actually better.

So have decided that I am neither ugly nor unphotogenic but am a challenging study.

17:31 / 19.12.02

But Lada, do you think I'm a vampire? Lookit my teeth...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

19:10 / 19.12.02

Shiny...

Nope! No way, I'm not being anyone's spider-eating man-bitch.

Not again...

Brigade du jour

19:24 / 19.12.02

I think I look horrible in photos, but often quite nice in the mirror. The camera never lies, ladies and gentlemen, but evidently the mirror is prone to the odd untruth.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:36 / 20.12.02

Someone of a scientific bent would be able to explain properly why it is that the mirror lies: it's something to do with the way your brain processes information... It's actually your mind lying to you, telling you how lovely you look. That's why photos can be a shock. (Although like a few people above, I have seen good ones. Just not for a while.)

I find being captured on video to be even worse: you get to see how you actually move, and eek, Christ, it's not with the easy grace you imagined...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:40 / 20.12.02

Why does your brain do so much self-editing? Apart from my other flaws I like to think I've got a fairly decent voice that can at least hum along with a song but when I've heard myself I'm several keys out and sound like a whale on downers.

Is it a psychological thing to convince yourself that you aren't a talentless loser?

08:57 / 05.01.03

Now I can show you mine grandfather of a me. This?!

wembley can change in 28 days

09:50 / 05.01.03

The worst thing is that people (even my own mother) tell me that I photograph well. If that is the case, I guess I'd better be happy with what the camera sees, because I often hate the way I look in photographs. On the other hand, give me sensible lighting and a professional photographer and I'll look like the cover of The Face, no problem.

10:21 / 05.01.03

Yeah... photos are things of the DEVIL! I always look unlike what i like to think i look like. It probably doesnt help that the biggest opportunity for people to take photos of me are at drunken p@rties. Which is unfortunate, if not *slightly* embarrasing in the following weeks.
PS the guy who did the pic of the eye-> thats funki dood!

14:48 / 07.01.03

That's why photos can be a shock.

Actually, just before sleep last night I had formulated one thought -- which has been lost forever because I didn't bother making it immediately physical.

It was about how we perceive ourselves as internal beings, everything we do is experienced from the inside, making outside recordings of our selves a shock to our senses, because these are divorced from the internal and only show the external.

Ish.

20:11 / 07.01.03

Growing up I disliked my face quite a bit, so I ended up training myself not to look directly at mirrors, so even now when I really take a good look in a mirror I feel the same shock that most of you are discribing. I think there is something to be said for the theory that we get used to seeing ourselves in a certain way.

That being said i hate photos of myself, but not as much as recordings of my voice

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