Brenda's Photo Page Okay, "everybody" has been e-mailing and asking for pictures of me. Not my family and close friends, you understand, but perfectly nice people who simply don't know any better.  "Why are there no pictures of you on your website?" they ask innocently.  "Put up some pictures!" Well, the other day my husband came home with a cheap (and I do mean that in every sense of the word) digital camera, and I've been playing with it.  I stuck it on top of my computer and let it capture the "real" me.  Sort of. In the pics I'm about to show you, you will see a 46-year-old woman with no wrinkles. That's right.  The light here in my office is dim, which makes perfect sense because I stare at a  computer screen for approximately 23.5 hours a day.  But if you want to take photos, dim light isn't a very good idea.  You don't get nicely focused pictures.  Remember that I said the camera was cheap?  I think the flash works only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  I took these photos on Friday night, when it wasn't working. Now you're wondering why I don't just ask my husband to take the camera back to the store. Because he'd probably ditch the dumb thing and come home with a top-of-the-line digital camera, that's why.  Trust me--it's better this way.  I'm not going to risk my kids' inheritance just so you can have a sharp picture of somebody who isn't all that photogenic to begin with. Thanks for understanding.   UPDATE - April 14, 2003: I finally broke down and had a professional photograph taken.  (It's on  the home page of this website, so you probably saw it already.)  Of course, it doesn't look anything like me, because I was wearing lipstick (an extremely rare occurance) and I accidentally had Good Hair on that day (even rarer.) I thought briefly about deleting the three photos you are about to see, but then I decided to leave them up for a while, for the sake of honesty.  That way, if you see me in the grocery store or on an airplane, you'll be sure to recognize me.     If you put a stocking over your head the way bank robbers do, this is what I would look like.     If you were to peer at me from inside a fish tank, this is what I would look like.     If you were trapped behind my computer screen on a really bad day when the hero and heroine in my story weren't following my directions, this is what I would look like.   (This photo is so awful, I actually like it.)     Now I'll show you a GOOD picture. (If it's still loading, stick around.  It's worth the wait.)        On a camping trip in southern Ohio, my college kid took this dreamy waterfall photo. This sized-down image doesn't do the picture justice--that's snow and ice on the rocks, not bird droppings--but you get the idea.  I like the way he blurred the waterfall. Copyright © 2003 by Tristan Coulter Prints available.  For more information, e-mail Teadoggg@yahoo.com

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