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January 17, 2006
Self portrait tuesday - a dramatic recreation
This January Personal History Challenge is a bit difficult for me, as I'm living almost eight hundred miles from home and don't have access to my trove of old family mementoes for plundering. This photo was taken last summer while on vacation; I guess Whiskey Cellphone Night(tm) brings out the ten-year-old in me.
On my dad's side of the family I'm the oldest of the cousins, but that never meant that I was one to set a good example for the rest. This photo reminded me of a day long ago, when I sat at the back of my long, dark bedroom closet while Hazel brought the cousins in one by one, and when they were in position and peering into the darkness I turned on the flashlight under my chin to scare them. The littlest cousin, KJ, came last, and I frightened her so badly that she was extremely wary of me for a year or two after that.
This is why it's a good thing I don't have kids, I guess.
Posted by jodi at January 17, 2006 08:45 AM | categories: self portrait tuesday
Comments
Setting a good example is overrated. How do we know what the limits are without people to show us both extremes?
:-)
Posted by: NWJR at January 17, 2006 01:42 PM
did you mess with the colours at all?
the green/red contrast is really neat.
... did i just say neat to mean impressive?
Posted by: jae at January 18, 2006 10:18 PM