I had the misfortune of a really bad hair cut last month... it happens to everyone and since I go to a hair school it might happen to me more often than not. I haven't found that to be the case though, generally things go quite well.
Because the student cut such wild layers I lost about 6 inches of additional length and had to opt for bangs during the repair cut... it was not my plan to cut bangs, not at all. What is done is done, The Tauton Press and Bernina are requesting new portraits and today is as far I can procrastinate the task...
It's unlikely this picture will make the cut, but it is my favorite of the oh... 200 shot in the 30 minutes it takes to get a handful of usable portraits. I am forever reminded of the blog post written by Wiksten Made about her self portrait for Lucky Magazine. In it she described the misery of spending the day trying for the perfect shot. I wonder if her camera was just on a timer as opposed to using a remote control. Regardless, you can only stare at yourself so long before the nausea sets in.
These sessions yield way too many pictures but I keep a lot of them in the dark pits of the family computer digital clutter. I think about the eventuality of not being there to see my son grow and how he will never have to rummage through shoe boxes to find out what his mom looked like. I reviewer once told me that as a child she lived through this and that her mom had left photographs of her hands as well, to compare with her own maybe? I know already that Finn has his dad's hands and feet, but we share our eyes and always will.
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I love this photo of you. It shows a bit of mischievousness in your eyes (the same as in Finn's! heehee) The bangs and repair hair cut looks great. Was your hair really that long?
Posted by: Lisa | March 19, 2012 at 02:15 PM