Monday 23 November 2015

Having what it takes


A good start to the week - I've had the go-ahead to create yet another bit of good-looking marble for my best client. I can now see well into the new year. All I have to do now is actually make all this stuff.

That women with the champagne from yesterday's (and today's - any excuse will do me) post prompted someone to say that - these days - you are not good-looking unless you are thin, but (as Cro and I asserted) this is not the case, so if your arse really does look big in that outfit, then congratulations. Buy it.

I have known quite a few professional models over the years (my mother was one in the late 1930s), and they all have one thing in common - the camera loves them.

I have a stunningly beautiful young woman friend, and she is married to an irritatingly handsome young man. They have recently had a very good-looking child as well.

She was offered training as a model when she was a little younger, but she very wisely  - and quickly - realised that she didn't have what it takes to look as good in a photo as she does in the flesh.

On the surface - beauty is not skin-deep - she seems to have all the attributes: long, slender legs terminating in a very compact backside, a fit-looking physique with just the right size of tits, a lovely set of wide eyes which are always clear and bright with no lines under them at all, and a great head of hair set on a perfectly shaped head.

The trouble is that in photos, she looks like a 45 year-old with a snub nose and permanently lascivious expression on her face. I know this because she is in one of our local magazines this month, advertising jewellery for a smart shop in town.

Kate Moss, on the other hand, looked like a 45 year-old woman with a snub nose (even when she was young) in real life, but still looks amazing in photos.

Walking around Havana made me wonder how so many different types of body shape can all look so good - gigantic backsides, tall, short, black, white, thin, fat etc. I eventually understood that they all looked good because they were perfectly relaxed in their own bodies. Nobody runs there.

I look slightly worse in photos than I do in the flesh, which is not saying much.

31 comments:

  1. Yes, I agree. I don't know about the last sentence, I'll take your word for it. I still like looking at that woman.

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  2. Beauty is also a state of mind.

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    1. Don't worry - the third episode of 'London Detective' is on tonight! If I think it's great, you will probably hate it...

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    2. Not a tit in sight there.... Love mr whishaw

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    3. Which one's Whishaw? Jim Broadbent? He made a good armchair in Harry Potter. There's a hell of a lot of straights playing gays in that series, but it's still bloody good.

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    4. Whishaw is very gay in real life

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    5. Oh, him. Well a lot of straight men have been snogging him in the last few episodes, including Mark Gatiss... or is he gay too?

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  4. I used to look OK it in photographs but ageing doesn't help much....... I'd really like to know how you got hold of that photograph of me .... I've lost the tassels off of my nipple covers !!! XXXX

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  5. My first husband always said that I could not relax when having my photograph taken and consequently put on my 'photograph face' which was entirely false.

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  6. Have never taken a good picture in my life.

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  7. I don't look good in any medium.
    The woman above however is stunning.

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  8. Have you ever done a sculpture of someone that made her or him look better or worse in a picture than they really are?

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    1. I have never been asked to do a portrait, but I am capable of both, by accident only.

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  9. Tom can I just post this link - to the photographer who took the photo you've used a cropped version of - this is in a club here in NZ and I know that performer. Small world! http://jocelenjanon.format.com/situations/leda-petit-internet

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    1. Thanks for that, MrsC. I assumed it was Poland, because the writing attached to it seemed to be Polish to me - idiot that I am.

      Now I know why all my friends want to live in NZ!

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    2. Hur hur. I suspect there is a busy and vibrant Burlesque scene in your area - if not there's most definitely one in London!

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    3. My God! I've just been on Leda Petit's Facebook page! I thought that photo was taken in the 1940s!

      I'm emigrating to N.Z.

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    4. I don't know of any burlesque venues in Somerset, but maybe she could come over for a private showing... could be expensive...

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    5. You're spending too much time with skinny young girls in the Bell. You need to get on out there with the more mature woman.

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    6. There aren't any skinny young women in the Bell.

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  10. No body needs to be gorgeous to be sexy......

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  11. I'm not photogenic and never have been. A friend of mine who's in his mid-sixties always looks amazing whenever he's photographed.

    I don't know what quality it is, but I know it when I see it, and I definitely don't have it.

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