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Self portrait

© Peter W. Marks

Self portrait

Uploaded: December 28, 2008

Description

70yrs old tommorow(12/30) what have I got to smile about!!

Exif: F Number: 11, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 3/10 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 800, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 70.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 20D

Comments

Susie Peek-Swint December 31, 2008

Great self-portrait Peter.. great to put a face to a name .. belated Happy Birthday! #1059510

Peter W. Marks December 31, 2008

Thanks Susie! I guess I would have known you were lieing if you had said I don't look a day over fifty! lol #6963534

Terri L. Scribner January 01, 2009

Happy Belated Birthday, Peter! Great SP!! No way you're 70!! #6965957

Peter W. Marks January 01, 2009

Thank you so much Terri. You said exactly what I hoped folk would say! lol.
I wish you and yours a very happy New Year. Pete #6965979

Melissa Olsen January 01, 2009

Great self portrait. A young looking 70 if you ask me.

You can smile...

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Peter W. Marks January 01, 2009

You are so kind Melissa. In fact all you ladies have been so kind.
I had not previously heard of Schneerson but I like and am encouraged by what he wrote!

And as Wordsworth wrote-
" The wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it left behind".

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Nancy L. Green level-classic January 03, 2009

So nice to meet you Peter, you certainly don't look 70!!! <>< #6978772

Joan Kocak January 05, 2009

Hi Pete! nice portrait and great twinkle in your eyes... I can see your sense of humor in this portrait, and to me that is the single greatest quality to have....keeps you young. Now to be a spoilsport....I wish it weren't so grainy!!!!! Happy Birthday dear friend ;) #6984927

Amy JACKSON January 05, 2009

Hi Peter! Happy Belated Birthday! Great SP! :) #6984942

Peter W. Marks January 05, 2009

Nancy,Joan and Amy- thank you my friends, you are all so kind!
I had colon cancer twice, in 1997 and '98 and feel greatly blessed that I am vertical to the grass, cancer free and enjoy every day that the Lord gives me. I have everything to smile about and make it my mission in life to share that smile and make other folk smile, even in these difficult economic times. Having the advantage of my Brit accent I have only to do my Sean Connery impersonation in the supermarket. I complain to no-one in particular in the aisles that we are all being ripped off by manufacturers halving the contents of a packet but still increasing the prices and my solution would be to bring back the Queen to rule the country, make me Governor in charge and I would get rid of all the corruption by sending all those crooked CEOs and politicians as convicts to Australia as we did 200 years ago! Folk laugh!
And Joan, you are not being a spoil-sport, my image is very grainy. I shot this at 800 ISO,f11 at 1/30sec as I was in a dark corner of my den area late in the afternoon with just a small amount of daylight. I used the on-camera fill flash but when it comes down to it I have no idea what I am doing most of the time but I do have fun. lol
Warm regards, Pete
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