Me, before the wheel was invented..

The picture of me on my new Facebook site is from that photo session from around 1987 ish and .. I remember the session well.. We were just reunited as it were, rebuilt with yet another keyboard player, this would be the best one yet..  Actually it was their cousin and he was willing to learn how to play but he didn't know chord progressions and so what we actually ended up with was basically a parrot, someone who could play some keyboard but wasn't able to write.. When Darren left the band I came really close to joining him.. It wasn't going to be the same and when we got the replacement guy, he was Dayle or Dail or however he spelt his name.. It wouldn't matter much, withing four months he moved to Denver and remained in the band for a few more months and then he was booted to the curb.. Rob was the least talented of the three keyboard players we would have, and really that was saying something. Darren was more talented on the keyboard than the rest of us on our instruments.. But here in the session I took that picture from is how it all worked out.. :

 The original proof.. Picture of me on the rocks out there in the middle of nowhere.. The day was a little like now but I think it was in May, a little warm but not bad.. The hat I wore was my older brothers hat.. I really liked that thing and wanted to wear it in all the promo pictures mostly because it reminded me of the Alice Cooper album Greatest Hits where they are all dressed as gangsters "Under My Wheels" indeed.. And that was always my feelings towards wearing that hat..

 Cropped the picture to where it is the top third or there abouts of me.. Then..

 Did what I really like effects wise on Adobe Photoshop, the glowing edges effect.. And this was it and was going to be it.. Then after I uploaded it and set it to be my picture I changed my mind and tried a little bit more.. Taking the original picture from above there I used the magic wand and clipped as much of the original picture out leaving only my face, Layered it on this picture and ...

 This is what I ended up with.. Then after some tweaking, ended up with what is in the avitar as it were.. :

 A little darkening of the picture makes me look a little more vague.. Just what I needed..

 The original uncropped picture with the glowing edges effect, I didn't try to get my face on this when I decided to crop the picture I thought it might not be a good idea.. But I might do it, ya never know..

 Here's another picture from that session of the entire band.. This session wasn't any more than a slight waste of time because we would never see any of the proofs, or I should say I never saw the proofs.. It wasn't until I was away from the band that I would get to see them, by way of my older brother who would come across them in that photographers old "studio" and would offer them to me for shits and giggles.. I'll pay that.. But.. it was the only thing I have that they didn't know about..  

Badge Henry