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"The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say:  "There is the surface.  Now think-or rather feel, intuit- what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way."  Photographs which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation and fantasy."
Susan Sontag in On Photography

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Scleroderma Walk

Today was our 2nd annual Walk/Run in the Park for Scleroderma. Last year we raised $11 000 and this year, before adding online donations we are at just over $21 000 so I suspect we will double last year's total or come very close to it.

As for today's image, obviously I didn't take it since that's me in the chair. I did, however, do some processing to improve the image so I will take some credit for it. Not sure why I even chose this one to post because, first of all, it's not a great image and secondly I hate having my picture taken. Never have liked it but now that scleroderma has affected my appearance I am somewhat self conscious of those changes so dislike having my picture taken even more. Nonetheless, here I am, warts and all. Cathy, my physiotherapist for the last six years, is the owner of the smile behind me. This whole picture thing was her idea so what could I say?

1 comments:

Andreas said...

Hehe, good to see you. The photographer had a slight focusing problem, but otherwise it's fine :)