The Ultimate Selfie – Hint it is not Bobby Tony | Eastern North Carolina Now

      Selfies are not a recent trend.  As long as people have been able to see their reflection in a pool of water, I suspect they were planning on how to take that ultimate selfie.  Below is early evidence of four men perfecting the technique.  Apparently, there was a fifth guy there to record the event.

   I get some ribbing about using too many selfies on BCN, but here is one that tops any that I could come up with.  No one will believe me when I say that almost all of my selfies used on Beaufort County Now were created specifically for use here. In order to illustrate a subject or article I use my own mug as an example.  I rarely take selfies or post them on Facebook or any other media.  I notice that it seems to be a right of passage for the young Millennials, especially those famous girl pouts with the fake kiss lips. Us older folks are familiar with the expression of our moms; "If you keep making that face it will stick that way."  Depending on how much of a sense of humor the undertaker has,  I guess their last coffin picture will look like they were sucking on a lemon or offering that one last kiss pooch.

   There are around several reasons for using my own selfies: 

1. It keeps from having copyright issues.
2. I do not need a model release.
3. I have been instructed  not to use family pictures without approval as in almost never.
4. I enjoy playing with digital pictures in Photoshop and it is easier to use an existing picture and modify it than to plan and take a new picture.
5. Making fun of others with their selfies is not the best way to get along in this super sensitive politically correct world.
6. Boredom is a terrible thing to waste.

          Here is the ultimate selfie taken by Buzz Aldrin during a Gemini mission.  Notice the reflection of the earth in his visor.

     Lastly, here is a 'UNIQUE' picture.   I think you could say that is the ultimate NON-SELFIE.  The Astronaut, who took this photo, is the only human, Dead or Alive that isn’t in the frame of this 1969 picture. See below for explanation of that phenomenon.

   This picture of the Lunar Module was taken by Michael Collins. It contains Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and of course the Earth in the Background.

   This picture was taken during the Apollo 11 mission, and it makes him the only person to have ever lived who was not inside this photo.

  Because Matter cannot be destroyed nor created, it means that every human that ever lived up to the moment in time that this picture was taken, still exists, in some form that is. It also means that every person that was born afterwards is also in this photo, again in some form.

   I was able to resist the temptation to insert the BT clown face in the helmet,  there is hope yet without the need for an intervention.    You think?