Molly Bennett took some shots of me while I was in Seattle on December 7th, and some of them turned out quite well, if I do say so myself. She’s got a set on flickr of shots of me also.
Getting photographed is hard for me. I have hated being in front of a camera since early adolescence - my mom is an amateur photographer and took hundreds of shots of me as a kid, but after I turned about 12, the photos trail off dramatically because I stopped letting her take my picture. I’m still uncomfortable, but I feel like I finally like the way that I look in photographs, I finally feel like I look like me. In retrospect, I think refusing to let my mom take my photo is probably related to my gender identity as a teen and my uncomfortability with my own femininity.
So, I’m trying to learn to be in front of a camera. I think I did alright, despite my occasional whining and blushing in front of Molly. See more photos from Molly’s shoot over in the ‘about me’ stuff.
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The whining and blushing were adorable…and I certainly did my part in contributing to ONE of those behaviors… ;)
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