Wonder-Full Visions #7

Essentially, my mental image of myself.  I could only wish that I looked this cute.

Insanely Perfect

Caption originally created on January 28, 2015

Regardless of who or what we are, isn’t this the kind of person that we’re all looking for?

Model: Frankie Wall

Photographer: James Dimmock

NO BOYS ALLOWED!!!

Caption originally created on January 17, 2015

This one has a bit of a story to it, so I’ll try to be as brief as possible.

Back in June of 2012, I had the opportunity to attend a reunion of people who were members of a high school marching band that I was once a member of. While I was there, I had a chance to re-connect with one of my old bandmates - for the sake of preserving his privacy, I’ll refer to him here as “Brent Rogers.”  We did all of the usual reunion-type stuff - talk about old times, catch up to personal news, etc.  We even posed for a photo for old times sake; said photo was posted to my Facebook page when I got home.

Fast-forward to December 2014, when I took time to visit with my family in Georgia for the Christmas holidays.  And, just my luck - no sooner do I arrive, then I catch a cold!  As a result, I spent my entire visit convalescing.  About a day after my arrival, my Dad volunteered to take me to a local drug store to get some medicine to help fight my illness, and after we returned home, he asked me about the photo that I had taken with “Brent Rogers” at the band reunion in 2012.  When I explained that there really wasn’t much to tell - it was the first time we had seen each other since the early 80s and that “Brent” was one of those kids that he already knew about - Dad explained that “people were wanting to know” if I was using the photo to come out of the closet as gay.  (As it turned out, “people” weren’t wanting to know anything; this is just my Dad’s way of badgering me on a subject that he already knows the answer to.)  I countered by saying that he knew as well as “people” did that I’ve never been gay, and have always had romantic interests in women - then rather pointedly asked where “people” get off on asking what “they” know to be a counter-intuitive question. My Dad responded by saying, “But you don’t date many women!”  My counter-response, essentially, was this: “And that’s proof of gayness?!?”

When it comes to his oldest offspring, my Dad is an IDIOT.

The following January, I decided to take another stab at captioning using the Microsoft Paint program; this encounter was heavily on my mind when I captioned this one, along with “Beautiful World,” on the 17th.  The quotation is all original; no borrowed quotes this time!  It is also, perhaps, my most personal caption, as it gets to the core of how I’ve always known myself to be.

A Daenerys Targaryen cosplayer

For the five(!) people out there who don't know, Daenerys Targaryen is a character
from the 2011 Series, Game of Thrones.

Beautiful World

Caption originally created on January 17, 2015.

The creation of this caption began with the search for a reusable template.  Searching my computer, I found a usable one deep inside a Microsoft image program (I forget which one).  The template that I found worked well enough for this caption, but I still wanted one that gave me more creative latitude.

On the other hand, I was getting closer to a repeatable formula for captioning.  From this point forward, it was only a matter of time!

Model: Morgane Dubled

Photographer: Sylvie Lancrenon