My New Image

 

In case you haven’t noticed, after almost 6 years of Blogging, I finally have a picture on my profile.  But its origin is both interesting and a little troublesome.

I suppose I had never posted a photo because I had never had one that was good without being staged.  But all of a sudden when I logged onto Facebook (as I do every month or so), I was greeted with something to the effect of “Would you like to add this photo (of yourself) to your home page (or whatever it’s called)?” 

I looked and sure enough it was a photo of me, nicely cropped.  I think its origin was from a fellow Blogger who attended a May Day party at my house almost 2 years ago.  I did indeed look happy and my hair was much better than it usually is.  So I said, “Sure, why not?”

But then I started to wonder how someone knew this photo from someone else’s Flicker album was of me.  I started to envision a whole KGB intelligence operation that involved files and photos in Flicker, Facebook, and Blogger.  And it somewhat creeped me out to know some anonymous employee had my number so totally.

However, yesterday I finally humbled myself and copied the photo into my Blogger profile, the new image of me -- chosen by a stranger from another person’s photos!

How scary is that?

But I still love the picture of a time when I was obviously happy, having a great time among friends on a beautiful sunny May day.