Perhaps this is just me ego talking, but I've always wanted to have a really cool black and white photo taken of me. I've just been looking at the Gallery photos of Mr M, and there are some classics there. Obviously he's a published author (and rock star), so there's a good reason for him to have cool black and white photos of himself lying around (for dust jackets and so forth), so I think it would be taking vanity too far to simply pay someone to take a posed shot of you for the mantlepiece... but still, I really, really want to have a black and white photo of myself looking iconic. I'm pretty sure everyone looks iconic in black and white, with the right sort of coat on.
I suppose I have to go and get famous for something now. :(
Oh, while I'm talking photos... I don't know what the situation is in America, but over here the Photo-Me-Booths (passport photo booths) have all been "upgraded" to digital cameras... but not very good digital cameras. The print-out is terrible. The pixels scream at you, and the colours are horrible. But there's no choice anymore. It's cheap digital or nothing. I tried the "black and white" option on one machine and it wasn't even true greyscale... okay, I probably shouldn't get annoyed about this, but it's another area of life where the price is going up and the quality is coming down.
Rant, rant, gnash, gnash.
Sorry.
D...
I suppose I have to go and get famous for something now. :(
Oh, while I'm talking photos... I don't know what the situation is in America, but over here the Photo-Me-Booths (passport photo booths) have all been "upgraded" to digital cameras... but not very good digital cameras. The print-out is terrible. The pixels scream at you, and the colours are horrible. But there's no choice anymore. It's cheap digital or nothing. I tried the "black and white" option on one machine and it wasn't even true greyscale... okay, I probably shouldn't get annoyed about this, but it's another area of life where the price is going up and the quality is coming down.
Rant, rant, gnash, gnash.
Sorry.
D...
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