Good, Bad & Funny Photos: Lindsay, Mallory, Ashley & Marianne

You KNEW I had to kick off the Good Bad Funny Photo series with my very favorite photo of yours truly... You just can't re-create this kind of photographic magic.

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Giveaways are a funny phenomenon. I witnessed a popular blogger host a wonderful giveaway for a jar of high-end store-bought nut butter and she got about 800 hundred entries.

Awesome.

Simultaneously, I held a contest where I made an array of nut butters from scratch (with a mortar and pestle of course...kidding!) and I got 17 entries. Is it because I'm not opinionated enough or have a sparkly personality? Or because I have an annoying habit of blogging about my cat? Or because I leave the blog unattended for days at a time- just leaving out food, water, and a litter box? (no. wait. there's the darned cat again).

NO! I only got 17 contest entries for my Good, Bad & Funny Photo contest because I asked these brave souls to send me embarrassing photos of themselves that I promised to post on the internet! So easy, so fun, such a deal! Who can turn that down? Um, I guess about 783 people. Well, I'm thrilled to have hosted it and I had a lot of fun and many laughs. I hope that you enjoy the resulting four-part photo series. Just think, if all of the other 783 people joined in, this would be a 195.75-part series. Gah!

By the way, Tamzin from Salad and Sequins, was the big winner who was picked arbitrarily by me folding up all of the contestants' bad photos and giving them a spin with the blades of my Vitamix. Then I closed my eyes and picked the winning photo. Yet in my eyes, all 17 people were winners... so I'm high-fivin' these gals as we speak, cyberspacially speaking.

For this short photo series, I asked everyone to give me a little introduction of themselves as well as captions for the photos. So sit back, relax and enjoy meeting Lindsay, Mallory, Ashley & Marianne.

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Lindsay

http://legalstyle.wordpress.com

Author of a San Francisco-based photography and style blog called LegalStyle.

GOOD:


BAD:


FUNNY:

Although Deb will surely say this is not a "bad photo" per se, I would like to let everyone know that I do not tend to save bad photos of myself. A little bit of an iphoto confidence booster, if you will. Unfortunately, I do have one bad photo that my boyfriend took of me doing a "naked lap" around my house on Martha's Vineyard (in my undergarments; don't worry) at 10am in the morning, but I doubt that it's very internet-appropriate.

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Mallory:

About Me's... I hate these.. um, well I'm a 20-something grad student in rural Wisconsin. I'm not a blogger, just a lurker.. I mean, reader. I thoroughly enjoy nut butters (shocking, I know), the occasional yoga sesh, cooking and baking of all sorts, and having bloggers post my embarrassing photos on the internet to gain entries for nut butter giveaways.

GOOD:

Me and my godson. how could that not be a good picture that little cutie pie in it?

BAD:

That's me, post-egyptian sunburn (with SPF 45 thankyaverymuch). i don't know what's worst: the sunburn, the bad perm, or the 2-sizes-too-big really hot cotton white undies i bought to reduce friction on the ol' burn.

FUNNY:

Thanksgiving pic with my four brothers. so much love. so much in fact, that it apparently drove me to drink.

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Ashley:

www.sleepysecrets.blogspot.com


Howdy fellow Bloggies! I'm Ash (or Ashley if you prefer) and it's an absolute pleasure to be featured on The Great Smoothie Girl's blog! That being said please don't judge my incredibly neglected blog too harshly as I'm a terrible blog mama. Anyways, I grew up in a small farming community located a hour south of Chicago and I currently live in a notso nice suburb about 30 minutes from the Windy City with my significant other and our two furbabies, Dutch the Collie and Trixie the Pitmix. I am a huge fan of healthy living blogs and with their help have recently lost 40 lbs (and counting). Let me take this opportunity to thank all those lovely and inspiring Bloggies out there; THANK YOU!

GOOD:

Sunset after a spectacular hike in Sedona.

My all time favorite picture of me. Totally worth being Spiderwoman to get too!

Dancin'

As normal looking as we can be.

BAD:

Right after being tail whipped in the face by my old boy Tommy. Also 40 lbs heavier! Nothing worse then wet tail giving you whiplash.

FUNNY:

My dogs holding still?

Naked little me and my poor, tortured Sheltie. Haha.

Before: Unaware of camera...

After: Aware of camera!

Jillybean kicking her mama in the face.

The big bad Dexter was taken by surprise!

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Marianne:

A little bit about my self- I am 33, married to a fish biologist. I am a runner, gym junkie, foodie, biology/science nerd, that is currently unemployed therefore I have tons of time to read blogs and play in the kitchen. I probably spend way too much time exercising and playing with my pets (two dogs, a cat, and a turtle) than I do looking for a job (shh, don't tell!!). It's quite frustrating really trying to find a job in this town. I have two degrees (wildlife science and a master's in tree physiology) and the jobs are pretty limited in my fields in my local area. I used to work doing research in tree physiology until the funding/grant money dried up. Let's just say, during a recession not much money goes into research in tree physiology...although it should but then again I don't rule the world....hhhmmm, maybe I could plan to takeover the world in my spare/unemployed time....nope, that would probably require $$$. So currently, I am contemplating going back to school or waiting tables (not really!). That's my story for now.

THE GOOD:

A pic I took of myself on a 12 hour car ride. Hey, at least I am smiling!!;-)

THE BAD:

Bad #1 - I have no idea what I am doing or wearing, it is from 2007 and I think wine was involved.

Bad #2 is my first half marathon, I look like I am barely moving and flaring my nostrils.

THE FUNNY:

The funny (well it was funny at the time) was at a luau on Maui after one too many Mai Tai's and I hit the desert table and proceeded to ingest larges amounts of refined sugar. I was going to send you a funny pic of my German shepherd doing what he does best...marking his territory but he gets embarrassed easily.

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Q: Do you immediately delete bad photos (like our friend Lindsay??) or do you keep them just for yuks? Do you save bad photos of other people for future blackmailing purposes?