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Monday, August 5, 2019

One more thing off the list

So I needed an author photo - for Facebook, for Twitter, for the publisher and all the promo stuff we'll be doing (in addition to my actual BOOK, y'all).

I hate my picture taken. I'm self-conscious about my teeth, and my glasses reflect, and I've got circles under my eyes and and and...

My friend Dianne is a pretty good photographer (she was the only friend who was allowed to take pictures at our wedding, because I didn't want to spend the day flinching at cameras), so I asked her last week if she'd take a few pictures. She agreed, but she's away this week, so...

Here you have a writer in her bathroom with a smartphone.

I took about 60 pictures, got 4-5 that I actually didn't dislike, and then futzed with them in my photo editing software. I didn't do much, really - I am what I am, so I didn't do anything to my actual face beyond smoothing out the lines in my neck and a few uneven patches in my skin. The rest is 55 year old me, happy that I'm going to be published, happy that one more item on the to-do list is checked off, happy that I don't have to wait a week for photos that I probably wouldn't like any better, and at least when it was just me, the phone and my new shower curtain, I could mutter all I wanted about bad angles and just how many colors is my hair right now?

Anyway, that's done. Exhale.
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8 comments:

  1. bbarnaAugust 5, 2019 at 6:15 PM

    Great photos! You look younger than the picture from the sidebar (the last one). I too wear glasses and have dark circles. It is hit or miss with the pictures.
    Take care
    Barb from Canada

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  2. KarenAugust 5, 2019 at 6:50 PM

    Thanks! And the last photo was only about a year ago. Go figure.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 5, 2019 at 8:28 PM

    I wouldn't have recognized you from seeing earlier pictures. No one will believe you are in your 50s.

    Again congratulations on the book.

    ceci

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    1. KarenAugust 6, 2019 at 8:39 AM

      Thanks, Ceci. Amazing what just a touch of editing can do. I feel younger.

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  4. AnnieAugust 6, 2019 at 2:25 AM

    You look great and your shower curtain is very appropriate, you look like your already at a book signing gig! Well done you.

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  5. Vicki MAugust 6, 2019 at 4:14 AM

    Great photo! You will be an expert at selfies now :)

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  6. KarenAugust 6, 2019 at 8:38 AM

    Annie,large swathes of fabric are always purchased with photo backdrop in mind.

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  7. EileensewsAugust 6, 2019 at 8:54 PM

    55 year old you looks great!!!

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