cringeworthy photos

i know, i know, i am hardly a candidate to be bitching about photos, especially since the ones i take are particularly poor, and i look horrible in photos (worse than usual, if that was a possibility).

but today i saw a really cringeworthy photo on facebook. it was so cringeworthy, i actually gagged involuntarily. i am a huge fan of smiling on the camera - a sweet, serene smile (pun unintended, though serene has a beautiful smile), or even a wide cheeky grin - but not acting cute. at this point jerald will say, but they learn from the master! well, i don't act cute in photos, and this photo was neither here nor there. it was an attempt to act cute and cool at the same time.

i have to stop bitching one day. especially when i see how unflattering my own photos can be. there's one of me smirking, oh horror of all horrors, and i have double chins in many photos. so i ought to be more forgiving. but, as i will keep protesting, and bitching, because i'm in that mood today, at least i wasn't trying to act cute. or cool. or both.

btw belle de jour's blog is actually very interesting.