Imogen ;-)
80% or 120%??
Not sure if I like this pic or not. It’s certainly not the worst pic of me. But it got me thinking...I’ve always resisted the urge to photoshop my pics. I’ve never made myself look thinner or removed wrinkles etc. I’m happy to admit I do play around with lighting & the occasional filter, and I almost always crop the pics to make them look better. But I think photoshopping your pics so that the girl in the photo doesn’t reflect the real you, can only have a negative, not a positive effect on the person. I had a great conversation with my friend Marci Ansen the other day. We chatted about how we all have days where we feel like we are kidding ourselves that we look great or that we could remotely “pass”. We’re not always looking 120% fabulous every time we dress. Sometimes I look at myself and see a very glamorous forty-something woman, and other times I see an overweight, mid fifties 5’11” man in a dress. For all you closeted folk out there in Flickr land who see girls like me galavanting around in the real world looking fabulous & carefree in our photos, it’s not always this way. Imogen is (sadly) only a small part of my life, and sometimes I get it wrong. Sometimes my makeup looks dreadful, and I am tempted to throw it all in and try my best to erase my trans-self. If we’re honest, we ALL feel like this on occasion. It’s not just you.
80% or 120%??
Not sure if I like this pic or not. It’s certainly not the worst pic of me. But it got me thinking...I’ve always resisted the urge to photoshop my pics. I’ve never made myself look thinner or removed wrinkles etc. I’m happy to admit I do play around with lighting & the occasional filter, and I almost always crop the pics to make them look better. But I think photoshopping your pics so that the girl in the photo doesn’t reflect the real you, can only have a negative, not a positive effect on the person. I had a great conversation with my friend Marci Ansen the other day. We chatted about how we all have days where we feel like we are kidding ourselves that we look great or that we could remotely “pass”. We’re not always looking 120% fabulous every time we dress. Sometimes I look at myself and see a very glamorous forty-something woman, and other times I see an overweight, mid fifties 5’11” man in a dress. For all you closeted folk out there in Flickr land who see girls like me galavanting around in the real world looking fabulous & carefree in our photos, it’s not always this way. Imogen is (sadly) only a small part of my life, and sometimes I get it wrong. Sometimes my makeup looks dreadful, and I am tempted to throw it all in and try my best to erase my trans-self. If we’re honest, we ALL feel like this on occasion. It’s not just you.