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I used to kid my wife that there were more photos of the two grandkids taken within 24 hours of them being born - than there were of me in my entire lifetime up to them being born. By a long shot too! Of course, back in our day photos weren’t the thing they are now. And the difference of course was no cell phones. Quality photos used to be a planned out, semi-expensive thing for people to have done. And our family just wasn’t into it hence, not a lot of pictures from my prior years even survived. Maybe half an album’s worth?
So it was quite surprising to me when I was screening Grace’s latest photo shoot for publication purposes. She has more pictures of herself than I have of me! In less than 2 months!!! WTH??? What an ego! That chick’s vanity is out of control! How many pictures does that girl need? Apparently more - because she’ll probably have another photo shoot next weekend. L-O-L!!!
Seriously, what is it with us girls and all these pictures? We can’t get enough can we? We want to try all the outfits, all the looks. And then get pics of ourselves and look at them, crop them, add them to an album. Figure out where we went wrong in the ones getting sent to the trash. Checking out where the best lighting is. Figuring out the best ones in order to post them on CDH. What fun! I don’t know why I love doing it - I just do. I love seeing the other girls on here as well, the more the merrier! Where’s the first place we go on CDH? Photos!
As I’m typing I figured out why the huge disparity of pictures between Grace and ****. She’s way better looking!🤣
GP
@gracepal Amen sister 🙂 I was saying the other day on another thread, there are more photos of Fiona on here than I've been tagged in (in male mode, obvs) across the rest of the Internet.
On my PC, my 'Someone different' (i.e. Fiona) folder is bigger than its parent folder 'Rogue's Gallery' (male me) by a factor of 100. It's even several times larger than the folder the next level up, 'Family and other animals'. And that's just in 10 months.
I don't like being in front of the camera in male mode. My smile looks gawky if I go open mouth, and half-hearted if I don't. But on Fiona, it just lights up my face, and I love the whole way I look en femme with the hair and make-up and everything, in a way that I simply never have with my male appearance.
What I really need are more decent locations around the house to set up the camera and take Fiona photos in 🙂 I've used the main ones several times each already.
@finallyfiona Seriously Fiona, it’s definitely a challenge trying to mix up backgrounds and poses. Good thing I never tire of looking at myself 🤣
GP
@finallyfiona it’s definitely a challenge trying to mix up backgrounds and poses.
GP
Ooh, absolutely!
Were just being our girly selfs! Fran has more pictures, clothes, shoes, jewelry, hair and a bigger closet than that drab twin of hers! 🥰
@gracepal 
Mr DeMille. Im ready for my close-up .. 
... I will take 100s of photos of River in an evening. but I cant find 10 of the other guy all year. we do an occasional selfie lol.. but out of the horde I delete the majority and only keep the fab. which some nights are little to none 
. Cheers RC
I was trying to work out what swear word you have asterisked out and why before I realised why it was there 🙂
I do have a lot of photos of myself as Becca in the various stages of my CD development, from badly-dressed, bearded original to my more self-confident and [I like to think] elegant self now. Perhaps we take these selfies because we like the way we look and/or we want to be sure we look ok to others; who knows. One thing I'm certain of: although I have many pictures of myself, they are far outnumbered by the sheer quantity of photographs of my dogs!
@rebeccabaxter Instead of asterisks I should have called myself “Drab” but I just realized that 😊
I think I need lessons in photography. And smiling xx.
@jennconn Thank you so much Jennifer. Validation from the members here is really important to me given my well documented difficulties xx.
@chrisfp99 I'm not very good at smiling for photos so I'm working on my Posh Spice pout.
Anna xx
I agree with your assessment, Grace, I’ve got way more photos of myself dressed. I never thought that I took good photos as a male, but I think that Jennifer is also way better looking than my alter ego.
@jennconn I kinda feel the same way Jennifer. My drab pics…eh! I love some of my Grace pics though. So why wouldn’t we want to be our own little model girls, right? WAY more fun!
I guess I like to document my journey, although the last few months I have been taking less photos of myself and just getting on with my day. I tend to use a camera with a tripod and self timer, so setting it up takes time (plus finding an outdoor spot where the lighting and background are good).
It also depends on how you count. I mean, even 10 seconds of an 8mm film of me when I was a kid is (technically) 240 photos!
I tend not to toss photos unless the shots are horrific (lighting so bad that I'm not recognizable). I'll just tuck everything away on an external drive. As you say, digital photos are cheap, memory is cheap, and you can instantly see if the photo came out so bad (bad lighting or exposure, bad pose, decapitating your head) that you should take it again.
@alison-anderson I can relate Alison, I also use the necessary tripod and remote clicker. I really never even knew those existed before Grace came back. I’m serious when I say there are probably only 40-50 photos that exist of Drab vs. already over 1000 of Grace in less than two months here.
I also “tuck everything away” but not on an external drive. I tuck my actual “external drive” away because it looks unsightly in my photos as Grace🤣😂😆.
GP
@gracepal My "remote clicker" is either the self timer on the camera app (so I can see the view remotely on my phone before putting it out of camera sight) or simply the self timer on the camera (with something like a leaf or twig as a spot marker).
I too have waaay more photos of Fiona than I ever had of the male me. I always hated having my picture taken but now love it. There are two main reasons why:
1. It's useful to get feedback on all your efforts to emulate a woman. It's not easy and it's nice to be reassured that your heading in the right direction with everything.
2. By publishing photos we're are saying to the world - "Look, here's the real me!" It helps validate what we're doing.
@d44 Well Fiona…yes and no.
1. I do love feedback or likes. There’s two types of people who really respond to flattery: Men and women🥰
2. My photos are saying to the world - “Look, here’s another version of me. Pretty good, huh?”
It’s definitely a real thing but I wouldn’t say it’s the real me. I’m a believer that everyone has masculine and feminine traits within them in varying degrees. We crossdressers just aren’t afraid to show our feminine sides to the world at times.
GP
