My lovely and beautiful friend Fallon, like me, is very self-conscious about pictures. I mean, who among us isn’t, right ladies and gents?
We are all victims of the double chin, the bad angle, the unflattering lighting, OR the snap shot where my mouth is half open and one of my eyes is shut and I’m flailing my arms in some awkward manner—okay, maybe that is a slightly more personal description of how I usually feel that I photograph. I always hope look better in person than I do on film! Out of a hundred or a thousand images, ONE might barely get close at the attempt to capture what a person encompasses in love and life and how they affect people. Some people are more talented than others at actualizing that perfect still image…but we are all our worst critics, and it’s really hard to try to see yourself through someone else’s eyes, much less the end of a camera lens.
Shit, pictures are hard. I rarely feel like my likeness (that is, the person I feel like I am) is captured on film. But we see ourselves from a different vantage point than others do. Fallon, I hope you can see what I see in this picture, because damn, you’re beautiful. And you make me smile.
