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Challenge: Portrait of a Single Human (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Date: Oct 21, 2016
Date Uploaded: Oct 21, 2016

 Self portrait. This is me.

And... yeah... this ain't me! Ha!

I am happy. I am content.

I enjoy being... me. All of me... my oddness... my perfectness... my doubts... my certainty... my... life.

I was shooting for the Bob Dylan challenge... I had a male model arranged, who bailed at the last minute. So... I shot me... and started editing it to take off my head (with PS, of course)... and ended up...

Uhhh...


ended up... uhhh...

Here.

I thought I looked like a man... so I put on my son's suit jacket that was hanging in the laundry room.

I had my hair pulled back so I could open up my head more easily in Photoshop with my forehead showing

(for this shot: )... and... then... here I am.

*grin*

I took off one zit (yep, I'm as old as I look, and I had a zit) and then... I let you have it... au natural...


One of our offspring has a friend who is "transitioning" between sexes. He has a penis, but wants to have a vagina so dresses like a female and calls himself "Maddie".


So... I'm thinking that way today.

Hmmm....

I kinda like it.


This odd... masculine... me!

I remind me of my brother.

He's handsome, though... so I don't mind. *grin*

I hope people enjoy exploring my face... up close and personal. :D

I like the way the face is vertical, yet the eyes aren't level. I think that adds to it. I want to remember this for when I shoot others.


I'll be interested, if anyone gives a comment, on the gender that they think I am.

Man! I feel like a woman.

:)


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Place: 5 out of 47
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 11/12/2016 06:24:51 PM
Wonderful
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 11/11/2016 07:35:48 AM
I would recognize those gorgeous eyes as yours no matter what gender. I love the detail and tenderness that shows through.
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 11/11/2016 02:01:37 AM
Female with masculine undertones but female nonetheless, I like the honest feeling this picture gives us.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2016 12:54:18 AM
Though this would finish stronger. Definately female for me but yeah a bit butch if that's what you were going for.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2016 12:31:34 AM
Definitely female to me, from first glance. If only because of the downy cheeks and upper lip. But the eyes are somehow "feminine" also.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/04/2016 12:51:16 AM
Wow, those eyes are really a great capture. Great portrait. A 7 from me
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