Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform and the heights I did aspire?

[reddragdiva]

I have a shiny new Casio EX-S600 video and still camera which I will be putting on eBay tomorrow (for 5p Listing Day) unless someone here expresses a serious interest before about lunchtime tomorrow. 6 megapixels, stupidly tiny (90×59×16mm — makes my Ixus 50 look fat and clunky), 3× zoom, anti-shake, MPEG-4 video recording with sound, good user interface, a seriously shiny toy. New in box. New price is around £200 if it's in stock, eBay going rate is around £180 new in box, yours for £160 to save me hassle on eBay and because I like your faces*.

Speaking of cameras: today's question. As far as I can tell, camera phones exist not to be usable cameras, but so that people can send a drunken photo of their tits (or, with a 3G phone, a drunken five-second video of their tits) to precisely the worst possible person because it seemed like a fun idea at the time, and not remember at all until it shows up in their work email three days later forwarded at least ten times.

What are the most embarrassing images of you known to have existed? (A description is fine.)

* the Queen, Charles Darwin, Edward Elgar, etc.

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[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

In my case, nothing but baby pictures. (Well, my ex-wife got one of me while I was asleep, and she knows that I'll exact swift and terrible vengeance if she ever shows that in public. The best part is that I won't have to do a damn thing to her, but only talk to one person...)

[mofette.livejournal.com]

it's started; it's after midnight

I'm so busy listing :D

[reddragdiva]

Yeah, I haven't taken the pics yet and decided to give the friends list first crack at it! I prefer the Ixus for nightclubbing, but this makes the Ixus look fat and clunky. The Exilim line is basically the reason all the other camera companies suddenly started making really thin cameras.

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

Very few images of me exist period, but I think _nicolai_ has snapped a few of me sleeping in various amusing poses. On my back with my mouth open, with a cat on my neck and so on.
Also, there's a series of black and white virgin sacrifice pictures from my teenage years. (Shaddup! I was so a virgin. Even if it was melon soda, not blood.) I wore the closest thing to a corset I had at the time - a vicky's bustier. And a skirt or something.
Bah. I guess embarassing pics of me do exist.

[jezebel-z.livejournal.com]

There's a great one of me which sparklielizard took at one whitby. I am paraletic, have fallen on my arse, legs akimbo and there's a fine view of my knickers!

[reddragdiva]

If you're going to do something like wear knickers at Whitby, you can't expect it to stay a secret.

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

Bah, it has that antishake lens I'd like to have. It's a pity that I'm so transoceanically challenged or I'd think seriously about buying that from you. Oh well, I don't need yet another digital camera anyway, I guess (sour grapes).

[reddragdiva]

Yeah. Shipping ain't cheap. How's import duty on electronics coming from outside US? (Here they charge you 17.5% VAT on item plus post, plus a handling fee, plus another handling fee.)

[reddragdiva]

Oh, it's actually antishake DSP (post-processing), not antishake lens (mechanical, like in the SD800 IS).

[reddragdiva]

Probably not a good deal for you - the US dollar is in the toilet and shipping would be about £20 airmail; £180 = US$338, which is close to its US list price.

I certainly don't need more cameras, but Liz lets me buy lots of cameras to play with if I sell the damn things afterwards ;-)

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I did the pound->dollar conversion last night. That's too spendy for a camera that I don't really need anyway.

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

Oh, and regarding your question, I bumped into a cousin of mine at a party once when I was 20-something. I hadn't seen her fo years. For some reason she happened to have a picture of me at around 10 tears old, wearing my cub scout uniform. She, of course, shared it with everyone.

[wednesday]

That'd be "most photos," really.

[reddragdiva]

Feh! Next you'll be saying you wouldn't want an AVI of you shaking your boobies showing up on alt.binaries.celebrities.usenet.recovered.

[wednesday]

My boobies are only for live consumption.

[reddragdiva]

Of course!

[damerell.livejournal.com]

But but canonical comical conical...

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Well, one of my school photos of me is pretty fucking awful. Apart from that, I can't recall any really embarrassing photos.

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

Two words: lace culottes.

One other word: blonde.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I hate all photos of me (as mentioned) but I'm sure there are really embarassing ones around somewhere. Handily, I think I have all of them. *g*

re: cameras. If you come across any reasonably good, pocket-sized, CHEAP digital cameras, lemme know? (I can at least find out how much I should expect to be out when I want to buy one, right?)

[reddragdiva]

I suspect a nice early Ixus would be just the thing. It would be about the size and weight of the 400 I had out on Friday. Only two megapixels, but very nice pics. Probably thirty quid off eBay if I apply my stalk-fu with great care. I'll see what I can do if you like.

[gothgeekgirl.livejournal.com]

No embarrassing ones, though there are some compromising ones. And no, they're not 'net accessible.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

There is a photo somewhere of me whacked out on nitrous (giant blue cylinder visible in photo) wearing a wooden moose style massage device thingy as a hat. I look, of course, completely retarded.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

my mum has some awful ones of me at about 10, wearing a New Kids On the Block t-shirt, asleep on the floor with my head on a cat. and the worlds most awful picture of me, in profile, when i was at precisely my most gawky age, showing off my *huge* nose, which my face had yet to start catching up to (not that it ever finished). she also has a video of me at around 13/14 with my friend Jenny Wood, playing with my aunt's video camera. she showed it to edwardscissors at Christmas.

all the ones that most people would peg as really embarrassing strike me as funny, mostly. i had a yearbook photo of me stoned off my face and with unwashed/brushed hair, and i was in an international scooter mag putting my tits on glass, for example. how can you not laugh at that shit?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

In one of the pictures of me at the controls of the space shuttle, I'm twisting around to look at the person with the camera who is standing behind the seat. I look really really fat and unwell.