Weekly Photo Challenge: Self-Portrait

What this photo tells you about me…

• That I’ve attempted a cheesy self-portrait in my bedroom mirror whilst pretending I am a real photographer
• That I haven’t learned enough about Photoshop to clone out the headboard or reverse the Sony wording on my camera
• I have a red wall in my bedroom
• I am married (or like to wear rings to look as if I am married)
• I need to do something about the bag under my eye. Just the one. The other eye is fine.

What this photo doesn’t tell you about me…

• I had to redo my self-portrait photo shoot when I realised, after downloading the photos, how much dust was on my mirror
• The last time I took photos in my bedroom mirror I was probably singing into a hairbrush and pretending to be a West End star
• I have learned enough about Photoshop to successfully crop out all the clutter that you would have been able to see beside me
• I really like the top I was wearing
• I actually really hate having photos of me – the ‘real’ me – taken, posted, shared, shown or generally just on display. I much prefer those of the characters I pretend to be, like these shots, interspersed with a few shots of the Lake District, which I use as my Twitter background: