who many pictures of yourself do you have

[Shely]

I just got through the last day off with another swipe at dresses I bought at GW. I had a blast on the 10 for $10 and 9 worked out real well. While sorting out my photos of the week I realized I had pictures of me in almost 500 different dresses. I often take 6 or 7 pictures, while dressed, then delete all but the best single picture. I have been doing this for several years now and have loaded them all to Flikr.

I just began to wonder, if this is an obsession with me, of course it is. Well how many pictures of dresses do you have saved away?

[Piora]

I occasionally take pictures, but only if I plan to post them here. I never leave any on my phone, though. I then delete them from every device, so my answer would be: none. I don't even have my profile picture that you see as my avatar!

[Sami Brown]

I don't think I have any of me in a dress, but I probably have a few dozen of other outfits. I have been doing this for only a month or so.

Sami

[Tracii G]

Vanity is not strong in me.

[sarah_hillcrest]

This is becoming a real problem for me. 11 gigs of photos, nearly 1700, and most of them taken in the last 6 months.

[sara66]

I have 16 of me dressed. I have taken less than 12 of me in drab in my life.
Sara

[Jaymees22]

I'm only a little obsessed about 500 pictures over a 5 year period not counting the ones on the cutting room floor. Have been taking less pictures lately, maybe I've out grown it or have a little more confidence in my appearance.

[Majella St Gerard]

over 1000 on my phone

[AubriMikayla]

I have about 8 in my collection .. not big on pics overall

[IleneD]

This propensity towards self-photography among CD and TG women I find an amazing phenomenon.

Does anyone know WHY you do it? Narcissism? Self-love? Validation? Fascinationi? A "WTF" factor? a cheap thrill?

[sometimes_miss]

I have two. Both taken from my visual point of view, so there's no facial shot there anywhere. One looking downward while in my cute maid's dress, the other, taken using a full length mirror of the view from the back. And from the back, I look like some poor maid turned into the hulk....not good. I keep it to remind myself NEVER to ever think I would pass, anywhere.

[Maria 60]

I have at least 1000 but I fear technology so I don't take any pics with my cell phone, I'm afraid with a slip of a finger I will send pics to all my contacts.
I take pics with a camera and put them on a secure memory card, l believe someone here had mentioned if I have an old phone with no database to use that phone for pictures.

[CarlaWestin]

Here's a cut and paste of the actual properties of the folder which archives images and videos.
There's a folder of recent file that haven't been archived yet of unknown proportion.

164 GB (176,477,347,840 bytes)

12,753 Files, 476 Folders

I don't see anything obsessive at all.

[sarah_hillcrest]

This propensity towards self-photography among CD and TG women I find an amazing phenomenon.

Does anyone know WHY you do it? Narcissism? Self-love? Validation? Fascinationi? A "WTF" factor? a cheap thrill?

All of the above, I also enjoy visual record keeping.

[kimdl93]

None....none at all

[docrobbysherry]

Like Carla, I have filled about 12 SD cards with pics of Sherry. The last 2 were 32 GB cards. And, I'm already 1/4 thru my next 32 GB card started just before Halloween! My stories require reams of pics in various outfits and settings.

If I have 100,000 pics taken over the last 10 years of just Sherry, I wouldn't be surprised!

[alwayshave]

I have a least 200 from my photo shoot, and maybe another 50 or so selfies.

[Jenny22]

This propensity towards self-photography among CD and TG women I find an amazing phenomenon.

Does anyone know WHY you do it? Narcissism? Self-love? Validation? Fascinationi? A "WTF" factor? a cheap thrill?

All but the last two, Ilene.

[Marie-Jo]

Two weeks ago I bought a pair of photo lamps with daylight color temp. In two evenings I took about 150 photos to try them out. From the last ten years I have thousands of them. Fortunately the pictures were smaller in bytes in the beginning. Now they add to storage in a much higher rate.
Obsession? Not at all. Pictures are a good way of looking at myself from a new point of view. Besides - it is a nice technical side of it too. This is a combination from two pictures that both were taken in front of a mirror. The right part is mirror image, but from a different picture. It took me about one hour to pick and forge the two together. I had a nice time.
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[Ressie]

Approximately 4,472. Most are photos of myself but not all. Also, most could be put in the trash!

[Nikki A.]

I'll take photos to critique my look but then I delete them. I do wish I did save some to judge my progress but overall I'm not a picture taker.

[Kas]

I take a bunch each time I get fully dressed. Usually just delete them though. Might keep one good one to show the missus.

[Judy-Somthing]

Wow, last year I bought 80 dresses and took about 20 photos in each dress, that's about 1600 photos.

I've been trying to delete some but I hate deleting connections to my past.
Especially one of me in dresses I got rid of.

I did delete about 100 last week.

[CarlaWestin]

Approximately 4,472.

That's too funny!

[IleneD]

Sarah...... you're more than welcomed to add a few causal factors to the list.