It's going to blow. I'm almost sure. I just don't know when. Should I start forming a plan? Or when the time comes, will it even matter if I do have a plan?
Not that either of those questions matter. I've already started to make various plans, and which one I use will all depend on the situation. I've even left room to improvise.
You can't all me unprepared.
But that is not the point of this.
The point is, taking pictures of people. Not a bad topic, which I thought of thanks to Ken. I had been looking for something to post about. The Vancouver road trip was wonderful, but tonight is not the night to share anything about that, I don't think.
Anyways, back on topic. Taking pictures. Or having pictures taken of you.
Certain people have always bugged me when it comes to having pictures taken of themselves. They're the kind of people who block the way of cameras, or turn their heads, and always avoid pictures because they insist they always look horrible in them and they hate them.
And I won't lie, for a while, a very short while, I was also one of those people. Not even because I agreed that I always looked bad. But because that's what all the other girls did. Reasons for me following them go back a ways, but that's a tale for another time.
But eventually it occurred to me that the only reason people don't generally like seeing pictures of themselves is because they're not used to seeing themselves. Yes, we all see each other in the mirror, but looking at ourselves in a bathroom, or bedroom mirror, is much different than seeing us 'in action', as it were. Laughing, and jumping, and running, and doing everything that can be captured in pictures.
But it also occurred to me that when I look at pictures of other people, they never look weird. Because I'm used to seeing them. I'm not used to seeing myself. Logically, the picture is just capturing what everybody else already sees. It doesn't make me look weird at all.
So to get rid of this uneasy camera feeling that I had created, I had a phase where I took as many pictures of me as I possibly could. All the time. I jumped at the chance to get in front of a camera.
And it must have worked. Because now when there's a camera pointed at me, I don't worry. I strike a pose, make a face, smile...whatever the occasion calls for.
Like most posts, I highly doubt this has a point. But every once in a while, I'm reminded of how...frustrating it is when people are so camera shy. Not even shy. Firmly against it. Oh well. Moving on.
Comment of the night: How can somebody be so self-centered, and yet still have no clue about anything going on in their own life? I will never understand.
I really feel like getting out of here. I want to go for a walk. And yet, I also just want to hide in my room. But I feel like that's not far enough away.
I see the fuse becoming shorter.
~Calminaiel~
"For the amount I'm paying..."
3 years ago
2 comments:
Neat post. It's true. We hate our pics because we're not used to seeing ourselves.
I also hate the person who turns their head instinctively or hides behind someone, and spoils the whole shot.
But you should know that we're much better than we used to be.
Years ago, people used to frown as hard as they could, as if a picture was a VERY serious thing.
My favourite camera story is when my brother James was young. He used to always make faces at the camera (he now hides from it) but it got to the point where my Mom sat him down and told him that if he really wanted people to remember him as a funny looking person to keep it up!
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