My partner and I are very much in love and we really enjoy and crave our time together. But we have very few pictures of ourselves together. A lot of that is because we forget to take a camera with us to places. But a bigger reason is the same reason there are actually very few pictures of me in existence at all - I hate to be on camera. I even get angry when people insist on taking photos of me. It was hard enough for me to take "before" pictures for this journey, let alone unflattering candid shots.
And I want that to change. I want to memorialize my relationship and adventures with my partner. I want to flip through the pictures of us when we're old and wrinkled and remember all the fun we had as kids. I want to join him in the photos on my desk. I want to be one of those 'cute couples' on film. So as I lose weight and get fit, I'll get over my fear of film and get more pictures of my partner and me.
Updated March 21, 2008
