5/24/2023 0 Comments On chapel sands review![]() ![]() It is capable of obfuscating and deceiving every bit as much as the people who compose, take and edit the photos. In our age of selfies, no one could pretend that the camera never lies. But I seldom dared experiment with such a flashy look in front of the camera. The smiles inside my head were the big-toothed beaming grins of 1980s adverts and American sitcoms. The photo smile I had been taught did not read as happiness to me. I worked very hard at it, turning up the corners of my mouth as far as I could over my hidden teeth and gums, but when I looked at the photos in our family albums, I felt I had only succeeded in looking weird. As a result, my camera smile was an odd, forced thing. In a well-meaning way, they passed this rule on to me and my sister. ![]() Like many English people above a certain age, my parents had been brought up to believe that it was, if not quite bad manners, then certainly a little vulgar to smile open-mouthed, revealing any teeth. I ’ve never mastered the art of smiling for a photo. ![]()
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