Oh, I'm glad you like that second one. I wasn't sure how it would come across to people who've never met me. When I looked at it small, in my camera, I thought it was ambiguous whether I was crying or laughing, and that's what I liked about it. Nobody reaches this age without having learned how close together those things are in life.

One of the problems with regular snapshots and candids is that for a lot of us, the camera emphasizes what the eye edits out, and doesn't capture personality or spirit very well (lucky the photogenic person who gets the opposite effect). It's so shocking to feel one looks pretty good, or at least acceptable, then to see a photograph that is nothing but dark circles and sagging jowls, puffy cheeks and wrinkles and hooded eyes (not to mention "figure flaws"). I deleted literally dozens of pictures like that to get two showing something like the person I see in the mirror on a good day.