Paul A. Freeman
Last weekend, on the way to the souk to get a few refreshing beverages, I passed a photography shop. Since I'd been promising myself for ages to have a new profile picture done, I popped in.
Luckily we're in the digital age because it took four sittings to get the right picture. The culprit was my glasses, which kept reflecting the light of the flash.
Anyhow, we picked a pic, chose a background and the next day the rather flattering portrait on the left was ready for collection.
How much airbrushing has gone on I don't know, but suffice to say my face looks considerably younger in the picture than the mug that stares back at me from the mirror every morning.
It does amuse me that a lot of authors tend to use pictures of themselves that are a decade or more old on their profiles. That said, I don't think I'll be getting another picture done in a while.
That's it for this week.
Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:
http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
Happy writing!
Luckily we're in the digital age because it took four sittings to get the right picture. The culprit was my glasses, which kept reflecting the light of the flash.
Anyhow, we picked a pic, chose a background and the next day the rather flattering portrait on the left was ready for collection.
How much airbrushing has gone on I don't know, but suffice to say my face looks considerably younger in the picture than the mug that stares back at me from the mirror every morning.
It does amuse me that a lot of authors tend to use pictures of themselves that are a decade or more old on their profiles. That said, I don't think I'll be getting another picture done in a while.
That's it for this week.
Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:
http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
Happy writing!
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