warts and all

I have an expression which I  use rather often in relation to people who have image problems. and that is "stop looking in the ugly mirror". It probably is  not an original - perhaps I picked it up somewhere, I can't remember.

But it's been an appropriate, if not desperately polite thing to say to peopleI have met who dwell on trivial body imperfections -- people who can see a comedo  (blacjhed) and think it's a caldera!

But then I am a person who does not practice what i preach and this is why I prefer to be behind a camera. It is high time to change this and stop looking in the ugly mirror myself, hence the recent photos. I don't pretend the photos are pretty but they capture aspects of my body, hair, scars and psoriasis.

It is high time I explored my own body imperfections

Photo Hunt - Self

The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is self. I suppose this means a self portrait. Accordingly I put the lens on that has reinforced glass and took these two.





One is of actually of a gargoyle on Notre Dame in Paris. I will let you decide which one is which...