Mar 26 2025 - More Bad Portraits

 

How many selfies do you take each day?  Each week?  Supposedly, the world population takes 92 million selfies a day. There's a type of selfie named a .5 selfie.  That's the picture that is angled above one's head and the taker's arm uses up quite a lot of the space in the picture. It is a wide-angle lens picture so the photo will have distortions.  You could be very w-i-d-e.  Maybe it is previous generations who complain about how they look in photos and that they don't like getting their picture taken?  Looking at the headlines, it seems that if one has a "photogenic" face with symmetrical proportions, etc photography is a good thing.  And for the rest, too bad, lots of complaining. Besides the overall statistic, I wondered the "how many pictures could there really be" question.  Here are some answers from Pixsy.com - they looked at a getty Images data.    Donald Trump - 463,574 images Barack Obama - 336,823 images Queen Elizabeth II - 230,495 images Kate Middleton - 155,505 images Roger Federer - 149,576 images Prince William - 148,784 images Joe Biden - 143,412 images Hillary Clinton - 135,501 images Andy Murray - 132,295 images Prince Charles - 130,334 images Serena Williams - 125,257 images Elton John - 123,080 images Prince Harry - 119,379 images Jennifer Lopez - 107,997 images Paris Hilton - 101,438 images Jimmy Kimmel - 100,520 images Bill Murray - 92,194 images Rihanna - 86,247 images Jimmy Fallon - 82,464 images Camilla Parker-Bowles - 79,602 images Who would guess Donald Trump would show up as having the most photographs on Getty Images. Do a search for pictures of donald trump and click on the images view. The array is astonishingly awful.  His hair is prominently in all directions and then there's that orange makeup on his face. It seems uncanny how he seems to show up in so many places.

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Oct 4 2021 - Deciding on your profile picture

 

We all have profile pictures now on social media, websites, and other places.  Particularly important is a profile picture on a dating site.  What got me considering this is that there are enough women who post a social media profile picture  and think that their kids, their dog, their husband and not themselves are ok content.  Men do similar things - typically pictures of celebrities or dogs. Quora has considered these sorts of approaches to women's profile pictures with many questions - these are all pointed at women.  There are none of these sex-oriented questions for men.   It is: How come guys don't put themselves as a profile picture? And the related questions are things like what is the psychology behind...Do you know why some people don't upload a picture...and so on.   But the questions about women are more compelling and reveal more about the person posing the question.  Here they are: -Is it right to assume that women who don't post pictures of themselves as their profile picture on social media platforms are not good-looking? I understand some women prefer a fabricated online social identity. But why the insecurity about looks? -What would you think of a girl who is considered hot but doesn't have pictures on Facebook or any other social media? -What do you think about girls who don't post selfies? -What does it mean when women constantly upload photos of themselves to social media? Is this a sign of insecurity? -Why do so many young girls post pictures of themselves on social media, with hopes that their pretty picture will somehow fix their lives? -What do you think about women who post a lot of selfies on Facebook? -What do guys think of a girl who has no Instagram? -What does it mean when an attractive girl doesn't have any social media? -For a girl that everyone tells her she's super beautiful and attractive, yet receives zero attention in social media, does that mean she's not attractive? Don't all beautiful girls get attention on social media no matter what? -Will you date a girl who doesn't have good pictures or isn't active on Instagram but looks good in person? -I am attractive but I don't like taking selfies. What is right with me? This last question illustrates last week's topic on the decline of spoken English.  It would be a great title for a posting on the lack of command of language to express oneself today. Here's the pretty gazebo at Charles Daley Park - this is a few years ago when the tree limbs were perfect at framing the gazebo.  I have made the leaves yellow as the wind comes whipping off the lake and the locust trees lose all their leaves in the wind as soon as they turn colour.   To make an attractive picture, one has to erase the parking lot in front of the gazebo. The end result is a perfect profile picture of Charles Daley Park's gazebo.

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