# Doper Self-Portrait Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179 "2009-02-03T00:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/1 "2009-02-03T00:36:59Z")
Post a picture of yourself! (It doesn’t have to actually be \*taken \*by you.) Here’s one of my from the [front](http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e34/Vox_Imperatoris/Self-Portrait.jpg) and one from the [side](http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e34/Vox_Imperatoris/Self-PortraitProfile.jpg) that I took just now. Sorry for the Myspacey pointing-the-camera-at-yourself quality (and it’s not a very good camera, either). I like the angle of the profile one, but it came out a bit blurry and with bad color balance, and this is \*after \*I did a bit of work on it in GIMP. Also, I’m thinking of using one of them to replace my [old Facebook profile picture](http://photos-e.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v208/4/119/744215509/n744215509_3533716_5964.jpg) (gah, I look so different after six months!); which one do you think would be a better choice? Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/2 "2009-02-03T00:47:07Z")
I like the one from the front. The side one seems blurry or something. How about a different [haircut](http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i84/NinetyWt/HPIM0314-1.jpg)? (Just kidding! ) ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/3 "2009-02-03T00:52:35Z")
Here’s [one](http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f341/SylverOne/?action=view¤t=033.jpg) of me taken last fall, sitting around a bonfire. I think I had my camera set for low light, which kinda explains the weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/4 "2009-02-03T00:56:47Z")
[Here](http://www.image4u.org/interface2x/colin_newb%26w.jpg) is my current Facebook profile picture. Just pretentious enough for me, I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/5 "2009-02-03T00:59:50Z")
I totally missed the other picture thread! :smack: Oh well, this will just be for regular pictures and Facebook-style shots, that don’t have anything to do with before/after. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/6 "2009-02-03T01:10:11Z")
When I saw “self portrait” my first thought was drawings/paintings/etc but then I saw it was photos. So as a compromise, I’m putting in [a photo of myself painting a self portrait](http://gallery.opalcat.com/gallery/being_art/being_art_day11_scale1?full=1). ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/7 "2009-02-03T01:15:26Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > When I saw “self portrait” my first thought was drawings/paintings/etc but then I saw it was photos. So as a compromise, I’m putting in [a photo of myself painting a self portrait](http://gallery.opalcat.com/gallery/being_art/being_art_day11_scale1?full=1). That’s a \*big \*painting. I saw it in the other thread, but I didn’t realize it was larger than a typical canvass. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/8 "2009-02-03T01:43:21Z")
Good Lord Vox you have Latin all up in your responses/sig and HOW old are you? ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/9 "2009-02-03T01:52:40Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Good Lord Vox you have Latin all up in your responses/sig and HOW old are you? Sixteen, something I’ve not really tried to hide. (No offense towards you, it’s just that some people have tried to use it as a “GOTCHA!”, as if I were.) And if I were an old man, I would have \*forgotten \*all the Latin. 😉 Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/10 "2009-02-03T02:38:56Z")
[Here’s one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianala/149073213/)before I cut my hair. [Here’s one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianala/251821334/in/photostream/)with medium-ish hair. [And here’s one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianala/2308969314/in/set-72157604040780719/)with really short hair. It’s more like this last one now. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/11 "2009-02-03T02:53:42Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Sixteen, something I’ve not really tried to hide. (No offense towards you, it’s just that some people have tried to use it as a “GOTCHA!”, as if I were.) And if I were an old man, I would have \*forgotten \*all the Latin. 😉 > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris Yeah, but I could totally see that side shot cast as a Roman coin. Must be some program out there to do that… ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/12 "2009-02-03T03:11:49Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Sixteen, something I’ve not really tried to hide. (No offense towards you, it’s just that some people have tried to use it as a “GOTCHA!”, as if I were.) And if I were an old man, I would have \*forgotten \*all the Latin. 😉 > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris As if this board didn’t make me feel stupid enough…I have to deal with your genius. (I really need to edit this cuz that sounded mean. I am very impressed by your (and the rest of the doper nation for that matter) intelligence. You keep on doing what your doing good sir, and I will be jealous ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/13 "2009-02-03T03:15:45Z")
Wow **Jetgirl** you are a very very pretty girl!!! I personally liked your first picture because I have a thing for long hair, but all three are very nice. Jetguy is a lucky guy ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/14 "2009-02-03T03:18:45Z")
My picture is in my profile, where it belongs. But [here](http://photos-e.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v2107/215/92/522460532/n522460532_5554116_9075.jpg) is one taken just the other week, showing what I look like when I’ve been hitting the vino, which is probably a more natural state for me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/15 "2009-02-03T03:27:02Z")
Well, I declined to post this one in the naked Doper pics thread a while back since the tone there went straight for “amateur porn.” So for those of ya who asked for it then, here’s the self-portrait in question: [This is an actual self-portrait](http://www.autumneve.com/photographer/KAO06302006-sm.jpg) (as in, I made the shot myself). Mid-summer 2006, this was about half-way through chemo. This is a [more recent portrait of me](http://www.autumneve.com/actor/download/KatOConnorB.jpg), although not a self-portrait, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/16 "2009-02-03T04:11:45Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > My picture is in my profile, where it belongs. But [here](http://photos-e.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v2107/215/92/522460532/n522460532_5554116_9075.jpg) is one taken just the other week, showing what I look like when I’ve been hitting the vino, which is probably a more natural state for me. 😉 Goddamn I love chu hai. Damn you for reminding me of that wonderful stuff. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/17 "2009-02-03T04:23:56Z")
**Kaio** , an intriguing portrait (first one). I like how the teddy bear is looking away the same direction you are. I like your boots in the second one! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/18 "2009-02-03T04:25:20Z")
[Self portrait](http://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/3248942709/sizes/o/) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/19 "2009-02-03T04:35:49Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > [Self portrait](http://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/3248942709/sizes/o/) I know it’s probably just the way the shadow is distorted along the ground, but it looks like you’re riding a rhinoceros. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179/20 "2009-02-03T04:39:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I know it’s probably just the way the shadow is distorted along the ground, but it looks like you’re riding a rhinoceros. Who says I wasn’t? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-self-portrait-thread/484179.md?page=2)