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The first portrait photograph of me was honest, I thought, no frills, just me as I was that day. sitting in front of the Georgian fireplace in my Lewes home. It was as true an image as photography can deliver. The idea to replicate the photograph only occurred when Facebook reminded me that it had been taken exactly ten years ago. Facebook, for all its faults, acts as a useful diary of our lives. Earlier this month, I had just recovered from an annoying cold which had lowered my spirits and made me feel like I had one foot in the grave. It was then that my photographer friend David Stacey, who had taken the original photograph, suggested making a new portrait to match. I hesitated thinking hang on a minute, it’s bad enough feeling old let alone advertising the fact. We had lunch, our regular monthly meet up, and I was persuaded – what the heck! We arranged my living room to match how it had looked ten years earlier and I sat down in that chair. I’m glad we did it not just because time hasn’t been that cruel to me so far – well not as much as I’d imagined, and also because it was an interesting project in itself – letting the camera record a life. Dave threatens to take another one in ten years time – let’s see about that.

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I love photography but I am never satisfied with the stuff I take – mostly, I think, because I have absolutely no technical knowledge. So I am lucky that one of my friends, Dave Stacey, is a proper photographer and, for some time now, I have been checking out his work and asking as many dumb photographic questions as I can. One day, some of his skills may rub off on me.

Yesterday, he asked if he could take my portrait so I obviously said yes even though I am a very humble and shy person. I was very interested to watch him at work. The result, along with a lot of his photographs, is up on his website: http://www.davidjstacey.com/ (see “Some Links” in  the right hand column).

This is his portrait of me in my study – the wolf’s lair (I am much prettier in reality but then, as you know,  the camera always lies):

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