HNT #15: En Repose
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These were taken when I was sick of being the subject. Two different cameras. The grainer one shot with the same camera that shot the *last* grainy ones, and that’s the last of the somewhat crappy photos, hurrah!
He thoroughly enjoys these weekends behind the camera lately - my fill reached much sooner than his. Having my photo taken is akin to eye contact. I can’t maintain it for long. I get shy.
So I’m hiding in these. Refusing to play along, refusing to do anything but turn my head and look away.
It reminds me of one of the most popular “if” questions in word games we play, the ones that are totally unrealistic and could never or aren’t likely to happen, but our answers still show a facet of our true nature and personality. If I could have any super power I want, what would it be?
Invisibility.
To walk amongst strangers unseen; no, not for a voyeuristic reason. Well….yes ok I’ll give you that one, I would use it for nefarious reasons as well. Be the naughty fly on the wall. Mostly though, honestly, I would simply prefer to go unseen in the general public.
Ever since my mother handed me her 20 year old Canon SLR, I have been the recorder of memories. I have been the one behind the camera. For years it has been the joke that my future child won’t know what mommy looks like without a big black lens sticking out of her face. But that was before digital and LCD screens, haha. Point being, I’m not accustomed to or always comfortable being in front of a camera that someone else is wielding. In family shots whenever someone else brings out their camera, I hide. To snap photos of myself, in solitude, has been one thing…..I can do that. No idea why.
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*hides*
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Also, Boobie-thon! Please head on over there in the next few days and donate. If you donate, you get to see bared boobies. I submitted photos to both categories, and I volunteered my time a bit in helping to get the photos web-ready. Anything to benefit breast cancer research is a worthy cause. Heck, any cancer research. But right now, it’s breast cancer.
