Louisville KY Kilt Night, January 24th

[ForresterModern]

I didn't get good pictures of the wonderful non-kilted members of our group, but Jeff (I think) took this one with my camera, of Jenn and me.



The angle of the shot gives the impression that I'm wearing my SWK Saffron heavy a bit low on the knees. I assure you that is not the case..

The angle of the shot is the result of my unfortuate 6'5" height combined with a bit of wide angle lens effect in shooting down to get both faces and kilts in the picture. Tom's kilt was flawlessy appropriate in length, wear and style. You guys both looked great.
Maybe next time I will have to either sit down or kneal to take similar pictures (note to self--wife does not like me knealing in a kilt due to unexpected and unwanted visual effects on surrounding crowd).

Sorry my picture of the two of you did not make the transfer from camera to computer or I would have posted it with my posting earlier


j

[hospitaller]

Well I am finally able to syat connected long enough to comment and post on this, what with the storm and all.

It was great to meet you all, i'm sorry I couldn't stay longer but I was serving wife nurse duty for the night.

Now, my camera (the one with the super flash) somehow failed and every single picture was blurry and without flash, even though the flash fired, the timing must have been off obviously.

Looking at the pictures, it is amazing how the self image we all have sometimes differ with the actual image, and I must say, I am shocked at how bad I look. Not sure of it is the angle or it is simply my body shape, but I look short, I look like a pear (narrow top and massive bottom) and the kilt looks so incredibly shorter than the others.

I'll have to figure out what happened because, yikes, if that's what I look like kilted...it looks nothing like the guy I see in the mirror daily before going out in the streets.

Good times and maybe next time we can actually use the BBC's stage and sing something.

[Rex_Tremende]

I'll have to figure out what happened because, yikes, if that's what I look like kilted...it looks nothing like the guy I see in the mirror daily before going out in the streets.

You mean like this:

The New York Times featured an article a few months ago on the phenomenon of what we see in the mirror. It was noted:

In a report titled “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Enhancement in Self-Recognition,” which appears online in The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Erin Whitchurch described experiments in which people were asked to identify pictures of themselves amid a lineup of distracter faces. Participants identified their personal portraits significantly quicker when their faces were computer enhanced to be 20 percent more attractive. They were also likelier, when presented with images of themselves made prettier, homelier or left untouched, to call the enhanced image their genuine, unairbrushed face. Such internalized photoshoppery is not simply the result of an all-purpose preference for prettiness: when asked to identify images of strangers in subsequent rounds of testing, participants were best at spotting the unenhanced faces.

How can we be so self-delusional when the truth stares back at us? “Although we do indeed see ourselves in the mirror every day, we don’t look exactly the same every time,” explained Dr. Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. There is the scruffy-morning you, the assembled-for-work you, the dressed-for-an-elegant-dinner you. “Which image is you?” he said. “Our research shows that people, on average, resolve that ambiguity in their favor, forming a representation of their image that is more attractive than they actually are.”

Regards,
Rex.