Picture Me Please - Volume One, Two and Three

I don't like pictures, I don't mean of you or of anyone else, but pictures of me.  Whenever I'm asked to pose, well it never turns out well.   What was that - I'm squinting, no I don't like that look, do you have any idea what I was thinking at the time?  And the hair, what was I thinking... and on it goes.

Now you understand the agony of my getting that elusive picture.  Not that I haven't had pictures taken, I have and the evidence is on my website among other places.  There are a few that work and I can tolerate but with my first book about to be published with Harlequin, another is needed - something a little better than what I have, possibly something a little newer or not quite so distant.  Don't they know distant is good - a flattering look?  I guess not as their site suggests a professional picture and hints at a closeup.  But I know, and others have agreed, that the iPhone does a pretty good job.

So with phone in hand, picture one was taken by DH in my office - which, by the way, is
downstairs with only artificial light.  I-we thought it was a pretty good idea to get a picture where I
worked.  Unfortunately two things were working against us, there was a game on and DH decided to play with the settings.  He patiently took a dozen or so pictures and then ran upstairs to catch an inning, a quarter - I'm not sure what was playing.  After going through the pictures I realized that none were going to work so I "hollered", I mean called for him to come back.  So a couple of dozen pictures later, there's one I'm happy with.  It's cropped and off it goes to Harlequin who promptly rejected it with lightening speed - not enough pixels.

Picture two was taken right after I'd been to the hairdresser.  What better timing, I wouldn't be able to complain about my hair.  Unfortunately, I had run the straight across bang experiment but a girl needs something to "whine" about.  So off to the largest manmade park in Canada - Wascana, where there's Canada Geese, swans and ducks and all sorts of other birds to join in the fun.  Plus, it's a gorgeous fall day.  Surely, this will garner a great picture.  Unfortunately, gorgeous fall day equates to bright sunshine and me squinting.  This time DH was more patient and was able to get a few good pictures where I wasn't squinting and where an inquisitive goose didn't have my back.  I was thrilled and sent it off that night to Harlequin.  I'm pretty sure they work through the night there for that picture was rejected faster than the first.  This time - not in focus.  Not in focus?  I'm looking right at the camera, I didn't squint and my hair is tolerable, what more could they want?

Sher Your Memories Photography This time I figure I am completely out of my league.  Obviously the iPhone should be left behind and picture taking should left to the professionals.  It's time to hunt one of those down.  Unique is always good and as we spent some time in Arizona this fall maybe I could get a cool desert shot there.

So I found a photographer whose pictures I liked and who also had an awesome deal - win/win situation.  The photographer set up in an outdoor spot and had a lineup of appointments, me being one.  Cactus, wild desert scape, a mountain or two is what I'm thinking.  Ironically, the picture was taken in a park, popular with locals because it looks nothing like the usual Arizona terrain.  In fact, it looks like Saskatchewan in the fall!  On the upside, the photographer was great, personable, and best of all, took a picture that Harlequin said yes to.

And that is the story of the author picture and why, among other reasons, a career in modelling will never be mine.

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