Tuesday 18 May 2010

The Gallery. Week 12: Self Portrait

This is my entry for week 12 of The Gallery over at Tara Cains lovely blog Sticky Fingers. The prompt this week is 'Self Portrait'. When I saw the prompt my initial thought was to sit this one out. I hate pictures of myself. I think I am spectacularly unphotogenic, to the point where I didn't even think I looked that great in my wedding pictures. I un-tag photos of myself posted by others on Facebook. I've even been through old photographs and destroyed all the 'ugly' ones. I'm not vain, just very self-deprecating.

Then I read a little more about what inspired the prompt in the first place. A touching post on another brilliant blog (you can read it here) about precious photographs of a dearly departed Mum. The essence of the post was that sometimes photographs are all we have left to remind us of someone precious when they are gone. Gulp. Thanks to my penchant for destroying all evidence of me looking like a minger and hiding whenever someone brings a camera out, there are no recent photographs of me. None of me with my beautiful boy. None.
So brings me to my chosen photographs. They are not self portraits in the literal sense, I didn't take them (they would be truly awful if I did). I think they're rather apt though. They go with my nickname as I'm very nearly Nudie in them. I know what you're thinking, here's someone who claims to hate having her photo taken posing half naked on the internet! To be honest I would have treasured these photographs regardless of how I look in them, they were of such a special time. I think these are photographs my son would cherish.
That's him I'm a growing................









Fuck. That's my cover blown then.


30 comments:

  1. Oh WOW! You look stunning! What beautiful pictures.

    Who says preggo ladies can't be sexy huh? You carried that bump well lady!

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  2. Thank you Josie. Very nearly didn't post these. Xx

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  3. LOVE these photos. Simply gorgeous!

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  4. Wow! These are stunning! I didn't have one picture done while I was pregnant & although I wouldn't have been brave like you, I do wish I'd had a clothed one taken

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  5. What wonderful photos. I so wish I had done something similar (although it would have required something of an ego-transplant to do it...)

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  6. OMG... how can you not feel beautiful? These pictures are stunning.... you are stunning. My fav pics of all the gallery entries that I have looked at so far today (and no you are not the first).
    xx

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  7. These are just stunning - you look beautiful. What a lovely gift for your son in years to come. Thanks for sharing them with us!

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  8. Bloody hellfire, they are stunning. Really. Stunning.
    You really do look utterly beautiful.
    Thank you for this and for really taking the theme in x

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  9. You are not a minger! Fabulous photos and something to cherish!

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  10. these are truely beautiful photos - amazing! Thanks for sharing them :-)

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  11. Absolutely beautiful ;))))))))

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  12. These are beautiful pictures, you look stunning.
    Decided to be brave too and posted a similar nude bump pic but somewhat cheating as my head isn't in it! Could have written almost the same as you about feeling amazingly unphotogenic but have resolved to be in more pics for my little girl.

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  13. Amazing!! And gorgeous. Pictures to be proud of for many many years xx

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  14. Truly gorgeous! I really wish I would have done something like this when I was pregnant...don't know that I'll have another opportunity. You should be very proud...

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  15. Bloody Hell! Bit choked about all the lovely comments. I was desperate to 'do a Demi' when I was pregnant. I don't know that I'll get to do it again either, so I'm really gald that I did.

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  16. wow - you look like a renaissance sculpture in florence!

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  17. Wow! Wow!! Stunning....you look beautiful.

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  18. Beautiful. I wish I'd had some pregnancy photos done.

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  19. Fabulous photos and what a wonderful 'gift' to your son in future years.

    You look stunning.

    LCM x

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  20. wow!! amazing photographs of an amazing wonderous even and time in your life and your childs development.

    thank you for sharing!

    and you look stunning!

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  21. Gorgeous photos! You look absolutely radiant, doing a 'Demi'. I can see why you'd treasure these. x

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  22. Lovely! I hope to make photos like that some day soon:-)

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  23. Wow! Stunning! I never a Demi because I did not stand a hope in hell of pulling it off - you did hot stuff! Congrats! Cx

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  24. Gorgeous pictures. I so wish I had some taken of me during my pregnancies, you must treasure these. Smart lady!

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  25. Awwww I am so glad my best bud is getting some rightfully deserved attention, I hate it when you say that you are minging as I have always thought you are a stunner, but maybe its the self depreciating humour I love about you too. xxx

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  26. Wow, fantastic pics. Utterly stunning.

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  27. Oh you are so pretty hun - stop hiding behind the russian doll! Lovely, lovely pics you gorgeous girl xx

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  28. I have just found your blog from the writing workshop promps and what can I say, but oh my lordy you are stunning, those images are beyond beautiful

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  29. Wow. Those are truly amazing photos.

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  30. Seriously bowled over by these comments. I wasn't fishing for compliments by the way!I will take them all on board and try not to worry about how I look in photographs. It's more important to have images of my son and I together for him to treasure when I am no longer here with him.

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