Me, with the index finger Angie is going to break someday

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Me, with the index finger Angie is going to break someday
Me, with the index finger Angie is going to break someday

I don't like to be photographed, and there are few pictures of myself that I care for at all, but I do sort of like this one. It does not qualify as a self-portrait because I didn't take it myself. Fellow Flickr member cobalt123 took it during one of my dance lessons with Angie, the same one in which she took a number of other photos, including this one. She was using my camera at the time, and I had adjusted all the settings before the lesson started. We agreed to treat this little project as a joint effort.

This was not posed, but since my hands are rarely still, it's about as typically me as one is likely to see in any photograph. I don't recall what I was doing here, although I had to have been conversing with Angie, who gets after me about my habit of pointing during conversation. I never do that intentionally, and she is gradually breaking me of the habit, mainly by grabbing my forefinger whenever she catches it misbehaving. That happens much less frequently now, and I hope she can finish that particular aspect of her work with me without having to break the finger.

We performed a bolero together in the March 2008 edition of "Dancing with Our Stars," a quarterly event held at the Chandler Fred Astaire studio. During one of our practice sessions, Angie noticed that I had my hands clasped behind my back in a sort of parade-rest position, and she asked me why I did that. I told her it was the only way I knew how to control my restless hands. She immediately decided to incorporate this into our choreography for the performance, because she had already been trying to figure out what to have me do with those hands. Thus, if you watch the YouTube videos of our bolero -- which are linked with the two still shots which appear in my Flickr photostream -- you'll note that for roughly the first 30 to 40 seconds of the performance, I have my hands clasped behind my back. And as Paul Harvey would say, now you know . . . the REST of the story! :-)

One of the pictures which include the video link may be found here.

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Taken on: October 8, 2007
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Camera: Nikon D50, f/2.2, 1/80 sec, 50mm (=75mm) (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D50
Aperture: f/2.2
Exposure Time: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length: 50mm (35mm equivalent: 75mm)
Exposure Bias: +2 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Spot
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Windows
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