I RARELY like the way I look in photos, at least to myself.
I look at all the photos people have of themselves with their families, with their spouses, you know, the silly ones where you take your own cheek to cheek photo with your cell phone... yeah, I have NONE of those. I am so put off by the way I always look in those kinds of photos that I NEVER do it. And it makes me sad that I feel that way. I wonder if I'm too critical, or if I really just don't photograph well. It's an interesting debate that I have with myself... I wonder whether the me I see in the photo is a 'bad shot of me' or if that's that way I really look to the others around me, so that they look at the photo and just see 'me' and don't understand why I dislike the photo... Know what I'm saying?
I have had some professional photos taken of me with my son that I really do actually like and can say I look nice in, and my wedding photos, but snapshot-wise, yeah, not so much. Sigh.
I'm trying to get past this, though.