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I’m posting this unedited video from May 2017 as it captures me in a vulnerable moment yet also wanting to go through with stepping out in public dressed as a woman. I was truly torn between real terror and a burning desire to do it.
The backstory to this moment had been building for years. I have always been frightened, indeed terrified, at the prospect of stepping out in public dressed as a woman. I felt far more relaxed and comfortable dressing alone in private in the safety of the home. On some subliminal level though the curiosity and desire to venture out was lurking within me.
Eventually, knowing I wasn’t getting any younger, aged 58 I decided I should at least give it a go. If it proved to be a bad experience then I could go back to my comfort zone and carryon knowing I had at least tried it. My aspirations with my male to female cross-dressing go beyond just dressing up. I genuinely have a desire to pass convincingly as a female. I do not want to be perceived as anything other than being a woman. It is a delusional ambition as I am a man and have physical limitations that work against this dream. Also, I am not feminine and lack good looks. Despite these limitations I do always enjoy my time dressed as a woman so I suppose pushing myself to try being one in a public was something was inevitably was going to try one day.
That day came in May 2017. I wanted to feel confident so I treated myself to hiring a professional make-up artist to do my hair make-up. The lovely and talented Sandra Cormack, based in Dundee in Scotland is also a friend and supportive of my love of cross-dressing as a woman. The double benefit as not only would my make-up be applied by a professional she would also accompany me on my tripod in public.
I adored the makeover shaded on me and felt absolutely amazing. I loved the look and dressed in a denim skirt, wedge heels, a pink top and black cardigan, I felt amazing! I was ready for the outside world; or was I…
Despite sans of wanting to go out in public I as still hesitating. The video captures the moment of my hesitation in getting out of the car. You will hear how Sandra gives me the impetus to step out of the car. I doubt without her gentle cajoling I would have got out. I think my nerves were shredded and I would have driven off. Thanks to her being with me, I did eventually get out of the car. Within minutes she had me going into a supermarket and buying groceries! This was beyond anything I had imagined. I envisioned a quiet stroll around the town square.
I am not going to deny I loved, absolutely loved being a woman out in a public environment and felt great in my make-up and outfit. Amazingly, the world didn’t crash in, it was all on the surface very normal though underneath I was elated.
I am sure I a not alone in my fears of venturing out in public as a woman so I’m hoping in some way the video can help encourage other cross-dressers who have the same fears and concerns I had. I acknowledge, it is a luxury to get your hair and make-up done professionally but it helped me considerably. Walking around the main square in a Perthshire town on. Warm summer late afternoon was just a beautiful moment for me. To say I was thrilled and euphoric would be understating things, I was on a genuine lifetime high. I have to express my thanks to Sandra for gently persuading me to do this.
I suppose I’m hoping by revealing my nerves in the video and eventually stepping out that the underlying thing is we can all do this if we can break the fear barrier.
I haven’t been out in public since then, this is more to do with few opportunities to cross-dress in the intervening years. I now feel the desire to venture out again building with me so I have started to make plans for a trip. I have no idea when I can actually arrange a date for it but I’m quietly excited about it as a feel more confident, despite inability to actually look like a woman, I will do the best I can though and enjoy myself in a more relaxed way than the day out back in 2017.
I definitely feel more at ease within myself now I reached age 63. Being age 58 in the video it was a lifetime of suppression and fear being lanced. I feel the next trip will be a lot less fraught emotionally and I can settle into being Helene for the day.
Central Maine & Quebec job 202 crosses the mostly-hidden Prospect Trestle as he heads back north to Northern Maine Junction from Searsport, ME. CMQ GP38-3M 3817, a former GP35 and one of three CMQ painted four axle units, leads patched B23-7 2003 and 15 cars under a brief window of sun on an otherwise overcast winter day.
Highest Position - Explore #59 | July 16, 2008 - Thank you all so very much! :^)
A beautiful little fishing village only about a 30 minute drive from downtown Halifax.
Prospect is a small fishing community near Halifax. My husband and I stopped there on a sunny September day on our way to Peggy's Cove and I took tons of shots which I never got around to posting, so I finally found a couple to share... a lttle grunge texture from pareeerica
I have posted a couple shots from this station. It's where I usually catch the Q or B train into the city. I wanted to play with the sqaure frame again.
Central Maine & Quebec job 210 twists through the curves at Prospect, with three engines, and eighteen cars. They're running pretty late on this day, but it worked out well for Don Marson and I, as it gave the light enough time to swing around completely, although this would be the last spot in sun for the trip. With the rumors that the CMQ is looking to replace their inherited fleet of B23s with GP38s, it made it especially nice to get one of the two BNSF painted ones on the point, since the paint is much better looking than the ones still in Santa Fe bluebonnet.
Prospect Place, Battersea. Two of five buildings designed by Frank Gehry & Partners (Executive Architects: Adamson Associates), totally over 700 apartments next to the Power Station. Nearing completion, the flats will need a hefty bank balance to purchase!
London Borough of Wandsworth, Battersea, South London, UK - Prospect Place, Electric Avenue
February 2022
There was a grand re-opening at Prospect Hill Tower the other day - it was a great event and I was thrilled to get up to the top and see the view! Also had a great time meeting neighbors, Somerville city employees, historical society members, and other photographers!
What:
It was so freakin' cold during the morning but the temp was starting to rise as the day went on so I was hoping that it would create a layer of fog over the snow. Well I wasn't disappointed!
Where:
Prospect
Nova Scotia, Canada
(I added it to the map in case you want to find it)
When:
Late afternoon, The day after our last snow storm.
About:
This is the first HDR I've done in a little while (well...since yesterday at least:-). I wanted to try to capture all the great colors in the sky as well as the depth of that fog hovering over the ocean, pond and village.
I have taken this same shot every time I drive to Prospect which is only about 20 minutes from my house. I always pull into the tiny driveway at the top of the hill at this little cemetery and have a look out to the ocean and this picturesque little village.
You almost get an aerial view from up here and I always get the feeling that I'm somewhere in Scandinavia or Iceland or some place like that. I have never posted a shot from all the ones I've taken here because without the snow it is very barren and boring looking. I have been waiting for the right conditions and I think I finally got it.
I hope you like this little place!
Edit:
My good buddy Ray just called me while I was typing this and told me how much he liked the headstones in the foreground and how much they added to the sense of depth and related to the church in the distance.
I was so happy to hear that as I had really struggled with whether or not to use this shot or a similar one that is zoomed in a bit more to exclude them. I just figured it might have been a bit morbid, in the end I went with my gut feeling (no in wasn't gas!) and used this one. I hope you like this and I hope my fellow Scotianer's see that there's more to this area than just Peggy's Cove! :-)
Listen to me... I've shot PC so often people are starting to call me Peggy!
Well...actually that's much nicer then what people usually call me! ;-P
Tech stuff:
I shot this in the typical 3 frame bracketed (-2ev_0_+2ev) in Aperture priority and dialed in +1ev ExpComp as the snow tends to under exposure and go a bit gray.
Make this little village a bit BIGGER!
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Nikon D90 : Nikkor 18-200mm @ 61mm : 1/20s & -2ev & +2ev @ f/8
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Who said that you couldn't find a bit of beautiful British country-like oasis in the middle of New York City?
Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, New York
2014
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My photography day started off on a rather uninspiring note, the weather was very dull and overcast with the prospect of rain to add to the misery. Both Steve and I decided that we should make the effort to get out with our first stop being Crovie which is a small village that sits on the East Coast of Scotland. The main street is for pedestrians only, everything has to transported by shopping trolley or wooden barrows as there are no cars allowed. There is however some limited parking at the far end of the village. We were pleasantly surprised to see the weather had brightened up enough to catch the odd photograph where the sun shone.
The prospect of a merchant navy charging up out of Weymouth celebrating 55 years since the end of southern steam seemed like a good excuse for a weekend in the south.
Reality was near heatstroke, a track circuit failure and a late departing tour. Thankfully not too late to loose the shot to the ever encroaching shadows as the evening drew in, but Clan Line eventually showed up hauling its train up the 1 in 50 to Dorchester with ease.
*support coach edited to maroon
The bright orange on CMQ's pair of Heritage I painted B23-7s pops out nicely from the dull colors of late winter as CMQ 211 twists into Prospect. This is the wide shot of my previous shot here, and shows most of the train this time, with eight empty slurry tanks, and six acid tanks. The Searsport Branch closely follows Route 1A here, as both round Mosquito Mountain along the edge of the Marsh River to the right.
This is the earliest Art Nouveau building on Nevsky Prospect, main street of Saint Petersburg. It was built in 1902 according to design of Leon Benois.
This was the home of Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman. 31st January 1942 to 19th February 1994.
He was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.
On 22nd December 1986 he was diagnosed as HIV positive. His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage. Here he created his famous garden using the plants that naturally grew at Dungeness.
In 1994 he died of an AIDS related illness in London aged just 52.
There is a poem on the side of the cottage which is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem The Rising Sun.
THE SUN RISING.
by John Donne
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.