MaeBe's Trail of Discovery

[Mirrabooka]

It's funny with photos isn't it, how we think we look in them vs. how we actually do look in them! I'm hopeless at smiling and I have to try really hard not to frown or look like a zombie. I'm never sure how I come across to others.

 

I had a moment late last night when my eldest daughter facetimed my wife for some now forgotten reason, and when I was handed the tablet and talking to her, I was fixated on my image in the corner. My hair was wild at the time, I was a bit tipsy and all I saw was a woman! I have no idea what she saw in that context. I'll probably never know.

[Sally Stone]

How we look in photographs isn't really anything we can control.  I've actually searched for answers and there are lots of good explanations out there like this one:

 

https://www.foxbackdrop.com/blogs/news/beautiful-photogenic-reasons-tricks-foxbackdrop#:~:text=Based on the light-creation,angular faces are usually photogenic.

 

The simplest explanation is a picture captures our image two-dimensionally when in real-life, we are seen three-dimensionally.  A person can be beautiful or handsome in real life but the two-dimensional image can be way different.  So, for those of us that don't think we look good in a picture, fear not.  We are much better looking in three-dimensions.

 

[April Marie]

Oh, I am drop-dead gorgeous in a totally different dimension @Sally Stone! :-)

[Sally Stone]

2 minutes ago, April Marie said:

Oh, I am drop-dead gorgeous in a totally different dimension

So, just imagine how spectacularly beautiful you'd be in four-dimensions April.

[April Marie]

7 minutes ago, Sally Stone said:

So, just imagine how spectacularly beautiful you'd be in four-dimensions April.

In those dimensions, not even Sophia Loren could hold a candle to me. A Goddess....in my own mind. lol

[MaeBe]

All these beautiful people in my biography, I feel so blessed!

 

No fallout from the Facebook avatar thing, yet. I instantly deleted it, but I really do like the avatar I created. I'll have to recreate it when I'm more out to friends and family.

 

I guess they weren't dancing, one was blowing a birthday horn and mine was "like, omg, so surprised!"

[Mmindy]

31 minutes ago, MaeBe said:

I really do like the avatar I created. I'll have to recreate it when I'm more out to friends and family.

I'm with you on the Facebook avatars. My sisters asked me about mine

[Mmindy]

@MaeBe here’s the FaceBook avatar that had my sisters questioning me. When asked about it I replied with a cowgirl hat version. I would consider them soft outings. 
 

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[Mmindy]

On 4/17/2024 at 6:07 PM, MaeBe said:

Fixed that! 

That’s a great picture, MaeBe. 
 

Hugs,

 

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[MaeBe]

15 hours ago, Mmindy said:

That’s a great picture, MaeBe. 
 

Hugs,

 

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Thank you, Mindy!

 

Love the avatar! I assume you weren’t out to your sister yet? Did the cowgirl reply start a dialogue?

[Mmindy]

34 minutes ago, MaeBe said:

Did the cowgirl reply start a dialogue?

No, it was the birthday cake, tie-die shirt with breast. My youngest sister will love me forever and support me in whatever I do. My sister closest to me in age has disowned anything androgynous or feminine about me. I expected this to happen because she cut off and disowned her youngest daughter when she came out as lesbian. I will not stop using a feminine AVI. Let people think what they're going to think.

 

Hugs,

 

Mindy🌈🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

[Ivy]

2 hours ago, Mmindy said:

Let people think what they're going to think.

You pretty much gotta.