Saturday, September 13, 2008

Me, in parts

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The final theme for Project Show Me is "you".
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I would have loved to use this shot again (which first appeared here, and which I think Robert suspected when he said "a self portrait; your hands; your feet (I know some of you will be all over this one!); a shielded view of you; any way you want to portray yourself will work here." but I'm trying to be a good team player and take a new shot especially for the project as requested. (Who'd have suspected that I was a closet rule-follower? Certainly not me...) It's still a favorite of mine though. Quirky, a bit different, irreverent. A lot like the rest of me in fact. (See how I just snuck it in here anyway without overtly using it as my "Show Me" shot? I'm so sneaky...)
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Since I can't use the feet shot and I'm both horribly unphotogenic (yes really, even my own mother says I look awful in pictures) and am wearing an old ripped up t-shirt and shorts with my hair up in a sloppy bun there is no chance in hell that you will get a proper self-portrait. Instead, you'll have to settle for an artist's rendering.

I think it looks just like me, don't you?

Just think, it could have been worse. I could have subjected you to this instead:

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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great post...nice way to end the week. It's been fun playing along!

Dr.John said...

Well now we know what you look like. ( Sort of)

Bazza said...

I compared the drawing with your profile picture, seperated at birth, no question.

Arthur said...

I prefer to hide my feet in shoes, lol ! Nice interpretation !

Anonymous said...

LOL you are too funny... Love the smiley face....

Raven said...

This is very funny! I love all three shots. My feet could quite possibly have a Medusa effect worse than my face so I opted for the lesser of two evils...

Dianne - Bunny Trails said...

Fun shots! It's been great seeing all your photos this week and getting to know you more. :D

Jeanne Damoff said...

LOVE your artist's rendering. :)

Carletta said...

Wonderful post - cleverly done.

I loved Bazza's comment!

Your picture in your sidebar is quite nice too - your Mom must just be kidding you.

Robin said...

Sadly Carletta she's not - it took me 92 shots to get that one. Literally. I'm a nightmare to photograph.

Anonymous said...

Robin, you and all of your parts are truly lovely.

Now for the aquarium ... you need to come here and visit our coral reef tanks -- both the inside and the outside ones. OC and I spent so much time hanging over the outside one a few weeks ago that we burnt ourselves crispy.

Robert said...

Robin,
You have me cracking up at the artist's rendition! And how did I know I'd see some feet here today??? Thank you so much for making my first photo project such a success. I thoroughly enjoyed coming here to see what you'd come up with. :)

Anonymous said...

Ha! I love it!

And I do NOT think you are unphotogenic. :-)

PS - I have to apologize for the fact that I skipped right over your last post. You see, I'm a bit phobic of fish. As soon as I saw the picture, I let out a little shriek and closed my browser down lickety split!

anymommy said...

Perfect! That first shot is so cool, but I love your interpretation of the project.

Shannon said...

Since I have not a lick of drawing ability, my self portrait would look an awful lot like yours. Twins perhaps?

I adore hands and feet. I feel like they are such important parts of people. They are how we move about in the world so I just loved this.

Janet said...

I think you're very photogenic; hands, feet and everything else as well :-)