I have a lot of photos. I took most of them myself. Others were taken by friends, acquaintances and strangers who I imposed upon to take my photo.
The vast majority were posed photos, that is, I was aware that I was being photographed, so I smiled and tried to look as ladylike as possible. A few were candid photos – no posing, no forced smiling, no nothing, just me caught on “film” au naturel.
Despite all the effort I put into looking my best in posed photos, I look OK in about one in five photos. Or maybe it’s more like one in ten. Or one in twenty...
One of my best photos was a candid shot taken by my friend Jamie at the Transgender Lives Conference. I volunteered to staff the conference’s registration table and Jamie caught me while I was going over some paperwork related to job.
When I posted the photo here, it received rave reviews. The consensus was that I looked so naturally feminine in that photo.
What gets me is that I wasn’t even trying!
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| Wearing New York & Company |
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| Enzo Cerusico femulating in the 1979 Italian film Scusi, Lei È Normale? You can view the film on dailymotion. |