My Shadow: 2011 versus 2014

[Anne2345]

It's amazing the difference three years can make . . . .

[AllieSF]

Great pictures. Yours show some big differences. Congratulations. I love the frizzy hair look in the 4th one. I love shadow shots like my avatar. I recently took one after my recent visit to the hair salon with my grand daughter and it is comical because my hair is now longer than hers.

[Janice Ashton]

Anne

Big difference, I'm impressed, looking good.....

[Eringirl]

Very cool!!! That is a really neat way to compare. Congrats!!

Erin

[LeaP]

I'd like to see snow angels next.

[Aubrey lee]

I love this!! Makes you think of the many different ways we look at ourselves.

[Jorja]

Just don't look into those circus mirrors! :)

[Dawn cd]

Tall enough and women enough to play in the WNBA.

[kimdl93]

I like your new shadow much better!

[Kris Avery]

Haha, and the entire time, I thought it might be about beards.

[Cindy J Angel]

Wow that is so cool what a difference I've got to try then keep up the good work its showing love cindy

[PretzelGirl]

Interesting how the shadow displays a significant difference, yet is body shot pictures, we tend to pick at details. Great comparison Anne!

[KellyJameson]

You really are gifted with a camera. Very imaginative. Hope you post black and white pics. There is something about B&W that I never tire of. I think my next pic I use on here will be B&W.

Love the contrasts of shapes. The masculine versus the feminine. Now the outside reflects the inside.

Much better way to live I'm finding. Now all the drama is outside instead of inside, which I can deal with "more or less".

Reading "Whipping Girl" for the third time. It is strange that I "get" more of what she is talking about now. Her words really really resonate with me.

I'm constantly amazed by and at the power of gender identity.

[Persephone]

Brilliant!


Hugs,
Persephone.

[Erica Thorn]

Wow... impressive change! Hope I can manage that some day!

[becky77]

Cool but spooky lol

[Barbara Ella]

So wonderful how the shadow can show who we are in effect by blotting out the little details that often are the most annoying to us. Really a wonderful way to show the real person as a whole. Great changes dear.

Hugs,

Barbara

[mbmeen12]

Yes brilliant and the perspective is deep and thoughtful.

xox Kara

[GabbiSophia]

This is a crazy amazing to me. Such a great change in a short period of time imo. How hard have you worked / dieted to get those changes?? cool stuff

[celeste26]

Shadows are deceiving though. I can tell how you managed to manipulate them to show the side you wanted. Which is not such a bad thing but it is still there. The real test of course is hardly with shadows but with real people.

[Kristyn Hill]

very cool idea but you have always been brilliant

[KittyD]

This is actually an amazing art concept :)

[JustWendy]

The Shadow knows.

[angpai30]

When I first read the title of this name I first thought beard shadow. My shadow got fatter over the three years I've been transitioning. You do look beautiful by the way.

[Jorja]

Pssssst angpai, less food and beer more exercise. ;)

[LeaP]

Unfortunately, not everyone has a ready store of before and after shadow pictures. Knowing Anne, however, I can attest to hers. Having had lunch with her any number of times, that flat head is unmistakable.

Thinking about it, though, I DO have X-rays!

Here's the before:

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And the after:

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Hormones ... they're amazing ...

[Anne2345]

You promised never to show those x-rays, Lea!!!! You said only *you* would ever look at them, that they were only for you!!!! I trusted you, Lea!!! I trusted you!!! How could you do this to me??! I was so stupid, so young, so naïve!!!! And I really needed the money, but you PROMISED!!!!! YOU PROMISED!!!!