Self Portrait Thread

[eleanorigby]

Ooh! featherlou--somehow I think I never saw the True You until now. I was gonna post one like that but it freaked me out...

Re the looking to the side--I did that too, until I thought about it and realized that I needed to look at the little square lens in my MacBook top. I would be hopeless on TV-Cindy Brady's got nothing on me.


JetX--you DO look like a cyborg in that pic!

lagamorph--nice pic, but you're not laughing. Cognitive dissonance or mixed message? :dub: :smile:

[sublight]

Ok, ok, I'll join in the fun.


After a wedding (and before a haircut)


Bored at the office

[Laughing Lagomorph]

...

lagamorph--nice pic, but you're not laughing. Cognitive dissonance or mixed message? :dub: :smile:

Turned out it wasn't as funny as I thought.


I was just in a serious mood when I took the picture, but I think it is a good portrait in the sense that it very accurately reflects the emotion I was feeling at that instant.

I'll try to take a more lighthearted one sometime.

[featherlou]

That negative setting is awesome. I had to wear a 24-hour heart monitor recently and it kind of made me feel like a cyborg so I took a picture:

It's better when you smile reeeeeal big and get all your black teeth in the picture.

Very nice and cyborgy.

[jali]

Ok, ok, I'll join in the fun.


Bored at the office

I like this haircut shot the best. You look veddy serious when bored.

[jali]

- but I'm in here:

Star Trek photo collage

(Click on one of the 4 faces and let the Interwebs work their magic...)

Green shirt? Nice shot!

[Shirley Ujest]

Taken just before we left to pick up our friends to go to a formal. April 2009.

[Shirley Ujest]

I am the red head. This is my posse.

[jali]

Taken just before we left to pick up our friends to go to a formal. April 2009.

You have gorgeous eyes!

[Shirley Ujest]

Thank you!

[Sarahfeena]

Not a self-portrait, as I didn't take it, but it is a portrait of myself:

[featherlou]

Shirley, maybe it's because I am familiar with your personality from the boards, but you and your posse look like trouble on the prowl!

You look very friendly, Sarahfeena.

[Sarahfeena]

Shirley, maybe it's because I am familiar with your personality from the boards, but you and your posse look like trouble on the prowl!

I was thinking the same thing.

You look very friendly, Sarahfeena.

Thank you! I was at a party when this was taken, so I was about to blame that on the booze, but then I remembered that I was pregnant at the time, so I wasn't drinking. Maybe I just have that kind of a face. :smile:

[Shirley Ujest]

Shirley, maybe it's because I am familiar with your personality from the boards, but you and your posse look like trouble on the prowl!

Only prowling to the bar and to the toilet. ( We are classy dames.)

[Diana]

Sarahfeena, you look crazy young. If I didn't know better I'd put you at 27ish.

[jali]

Sarahfeena, you look crazy young. If I didn't know better I'd put you at 27ish.

She's not? Wow!

[Sarahfeena]

Sarahfeena, you look crazy young. If I didn't know better I'd put you at 27ish.

She's not? Wow!

Aw, you guys are sweet! My trick is to smear the camera lens with vaseline. :wink: I'm 40 in that pic, Jali, and feeling every bit of it at about 4 or 5 months prego!

[sublight]

I like this haircut shot the best. You look veddy serious when bored.

yeah, I don't why, but I never smile when I take a self-portrait.

[Shirley Ujest]

Sarahfeena, you look crazy young. If I didn't know better I'd put you at 27ish.

She's not? Wow!

Aw, you guys are sweet! My trick is to smear the camera lens with vaseline. :wink: I'm 40 in that pic, Jali, and feeling every bit of it at about 4 or 5 months prego!

You're 40!!!!

I would put you definately at the around 27 age group.

It's official, I (censored) you.

Oops, wrong pic.

[featherlou]

Tease!

[CrashMyBicycle]

Working on my MySpace angle, long before I had a MySpace. I think I took that when I was 21 or so.

[garygnu]

I got a new haircut, along with a new hair color:

[MsPurlMcKnittington]

I took this picture of myself a couple days ago, because I thought I looked cute in a no makeup, hair needs to be brushed, washed out by the afternoon sun, Harvey Dent kind of way.



And, while I'm at it, my favorite self-portrait, because I think it shows my personality pretty well.



The sun. I hate it. The feeling appears to be mutual.

[Batman]

Wow, I thought you were much older.












How you doing?

[Zuul]

It's been a few weeks since I took any pictures of myself, aside from lurking in the background of family events, but this is my most recent self-portrait:



I'd been telling a friend I was going to get pictures done in my corset and vinyl pants to prove I am the most fabulous (long story), but haven't gotten around to it, as I need somebody to lace me up.

[MsPurlMcKnittington]

Wow, I thought you were much older.

Ha! You have a lot in common with the kindergarteners I know, then. They're all pretty sure I'm in my 30s or 40s. Then I tell them I'm 24 and they get this look on their face like, "But you're so old. Are you sure?"

How you doing?

Awesome. That's how I'm doin'.

[Zabigail]

Ok, here's me... I took this with the window opened, using the bathroom mirror to reflect the viewscreen so I could preview. (Yep, those are silver hairs. Won't pluck 'em.) I am not usually successful at faking a smile, so I just go for a neutral expression. ETA: Yeah, I got a few freckles too.



My eye, it's hazel. I do pluck my eyebrows from time to time. (The dirt speck blew in on me, and I thought I'd gotten it wiped away.)



This one was taken by the Mr., but I like it. I'm somewhat disgruntled, because he's ignoring my advice to pull the camera back a fraction and zoom in to get it to focus. He thought because he'd read the camera manuel cover to cover that meant he could use the camera better than I could. So, I tried to school my expression while my camera kept making "I'm not focused" noises. It was windy, and my hair was trying to be frizzy that day. (I'm wearing turquoise blue and purple, for the record.)

[OneCentStamp]

And, while I'm at it, my favorite self-portrait, because I think it shows my personality pretty well.

I like the semi-glower here. I'll call this my second favorite MsPurl pic, after the smirking one in front of the shower curtain that you posted at The Old Place a while back.

Geez, I sound stalker-y now. I swear, it was just a picture that I happened to remember!

[Cluricaun]

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Geez, I sound stalker-y now. I swear, it was just a picture that I happened to remember!

I know. I always want to comment on her pics too because I think that Ms. Purl is insanely beautiful but I don't want people to think that I'm the Ms. Purl Nonny either.

[MsPurlMcKnittington]

Um, if you guys don't want to be taken for the Ms. Purl nonny, then just don't talk about how you'd like to get up in my sweet little Wisconsin puss and you should be fine. Seriously, nonnies, you weird me out sometimes -- perhaps even all the time.

But! Thank you both very much for the compliments. It's kind of you to say so.

[artifex]

I mostly lurk - when time permits, which is not often anymore, I'm a student nurse - but I'm the one who's engaged to OneCentStamp and this is what I look like...

[XJETGIRLX]

In the true spirit of the meaning "self portrait":

Me:


Me with migraine:

[BiblioCat]

In the true spirit of the meaning "self portrait":
Me with migraine:

I like this one. That's pretty much how I feel when I have a migraine.

[hatesfreedom]

Um, if you guys don't want to be taken for the Ms. Purl nonny, then just don't talk about how you'd like to get up in my sweet little Wisconsin puss and you should be fine. Seriously, nonnies, you weird me out sometimes -- perhaps even all the time.

But! Thank you both very much for the compliments. It's kind of you to say so.

[McNutty]

roflcopters

[OneCentStamp]

I know artifex probably won't put this picture here, so I'll do it for her. This is a shot I snapped of her at the Riverwalk in San Antonio. I was actually getting pictures of the surrounding buildings when all of a sudden she was in my field of view and, if I do say so myself, looking rather splendid.

[rasa]

Still life, with books.

[Diana]

I know artifex probably won't put this picture here, so I'll do it for her. This is a shot I snapped of her at the Riverwalk in San Antonio. I was actually getting pictures of the surrounding buildings when all of a sudden she was in my field of view and, if I do say so myself, looking rather splendid.

I agree, and not just because I have that same shirt.

[OneCentStamp]

I agree, and not just because I have that same shirt.

Ah, you may have something in the same pattern, but in this case it is a dress: :smile:

[Art Rock]

Always fun to see what everyone looks like.

Clickable for a little background:

[Diana]

Ah, you may have something in the same pattern, but in this case it is a dress: :smile:

And now I'm jealous. I like hers better!

[Sleeps w/Butterflies]

[hatesfreedom]

You're always looking like you're having a more fabulous time than me and that can't be allowed so consider this war!

[Laughing Lagomorph]

You're always looking like you're having a more fabulous time than me and that can't be allowed so consider this war!

I was thinking it looked like the kind of picture someone might take of themself as their car plunged over the edge of a cliff.

[OneCentStamp]

I was thinking it looked like the kind of picture someone might take of themself as their car plunged over the edge of a cliff.

Now and forevermore, in my mind, Sleeps w/Butterflies will be simply "Toonces."

[garygnu]

I was thinking it looked like the kind of picture someone might take of themself as their car plunged over the edge of a cliff.

Now and forevermore, in my mind, Sleeps w/Butterflies will be simply "Toonces."

Or "Thelma."

[Sleeps w/Butterflies]

Sadly, I'm quite predictable. I did something similar when I first got this phone last year. Heading out to meet friends, I stopped at a traffic light and...

[garygnu]

At least you’re not doing the insipid pout/kiss-at-the-camera.
But you should stick to smiling.

[interface2x]

Yeah, I'll do it.