TYS May 29 prompt: a selfie question

My mom and brother were visiting this weekend so we went out to eat and I made sure to get a photo of us by the marina. I try to make sure I am in the photo and I never miss an opportunity to take a photo with my mom or a photo of my kids with their grandma.

Many years ago at the first Great American Scrapbook Convention, I won the layout contest for a layout about me. I had a photo of myself from each decade with a journalling box under each photo describing where I lived and what I was doing at that time. I had babyhood up to age 40. I added a second page when I turned 50 to continue it, and next year I will add age 60. I definately make sure my life is scrapped and that I am present in my kids' scrapbooks.

Not often enough.

I just don't do anything interesting enough for someone else to want to keep a pic of it. (And I'm terrible at selfies)

I did have my mom take a pic of me on my last birthday, because no one had for years before that.

And it seems that I'm the only one who takes a purposefully good pic of people. If I ask others to take a pic of me, they just point the camera in my general direction, snap once, and hand it back. I always have my head half cut off, or miss an arm, or something growing out of the top of my head, or I blink. I mean, come on, people! This is digital. Take good pics. Or take them again and again until a good-ish one magically appears.

I'm planning *someday* to go buy a fabulous outfit, go have my makeup done professionally, and go to a portrait studio and have my photos taken for once. LOL.

I actually take quite a few selfies with DS. I get a much better photo of him if he can see himself on the phone and he will usually smile and cooperate for a photo that way. So I do feel like I'm in the albums quite a bit.

The problem I struggle with is at events and things, I am taking the photos of the actions. I..e picking of the strawberries. So I'm rarely, if ever, in those types of photos. If I can hand the camera off to DH for a bit it works, but if it's just me & DS out doing stuff, it doesn't happen. So the selfies have to do.

I'm usually the one taking the photos - and selfies with the dslr don't really happen. My middle child got her own dslr for her birthday this month and she's usually pretty good at getting a photo of mum at events (as was her older brother when he lived at home)

I did scrap one of me recently - DS snapped a photo of me at my desk when he was home on leave

I used to avoid the camera like the plague. Then I lost some weight and now I'm comfortable being photographed. For a long period of time there were only one or two pictures of me in my albums. Now there are lots more. I know my kids will appreciate seeing more of our life in our scrapbooks and not just them at the park or whatever.

I don't take selfies of my myself but I do take selfies of my family. I love those. All of use trying to squish into frame is always funny and my husband will usually do something silly and make us laugh. I always love how they turn out.