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Today I met a long-time friend, it's funny. No it's not, nevermind.

I know her since we are 4 years old we were in school together and she has always be my best friend. We have always been in the same school except in secondary school because she wanted to make a more specific class about graphic arts, and it was like she was late of two years in her schooling we didn't see each other very much, nearly not.

Then I moved to another town for my studies in animation. Now she's in the same town than me for her studies of graphic arts again.

Her boyfriend and her are interested to move to Canada, and so do I and my boyfriend...

We met today in our native town and went shopping. I never go shopping with friends because they don't like to ^^ Then we came to her house to see her parent's I didn't see for a long time, and her sister I didn't see for years (and she's god damn pretty, as her sister)

That's why it's funny, because all along life we have the same things in common, we grow up and have the same kind of projects in the same places....

Photos by Philippe Astori.

The result is ok but not very original or anything...

These are my retouches, I did them on my laptop that's a bit wrong with colors, I tried to consider it so I don't know what's on your screen... I tried to make something correct considering the hard lighting... :-/ If you have ideas to make it look better, it's up to you.























Thought it would have been better.

I was checking my mails on Myspace and I saw this photographer added a new photo of me to his album. Fuck is that me?!



This is the "before and after".



I hate that and since yesterday I'm irritated. I wrote him to know what's the fuck with this pic and why he did a such retoughing. My head is modified, my butt and my legs, and so badly you can easily see what he did.

And he told me he did nothing on the picture but fixing the levels!! I'm not dumb, I didn't recognized myself and I was really irked.

One of the reasons I make photos is to feel good, to see how I really look because I always think I'm bigger than the reality etc, so if even photographers retouche my body, thanks for the encouragements. And he rubs in it saying the girl he saw on the pictures was not the girl he opened the door to! I know I gain 4 kilos in four years but fuck, I'm not that big >_< I am not going to reconsider myself with that kind of things but that's annoying.

"I am playing with photoshop", he said. But there's a difference between playing discovering photoshop tools and publish dud tests on the web, ESPECIALLY WHEN I DIDN'T SEE THE PICTURES BEFORE!!!

I thought I'd get mad with the second picture, after I said him everything...



And look at the pictures I posted before ; there is one exactly how he wants so SHIT there was no need for any do-it-yourself.

Doing a so bad photoshop depreciates his work and my image.

You can look at his myspace gallery, there at two other pictures where I can see I... "have a problem" u_u I have not the CD here so I'll compare the pictures next week as the guy doesn't say anything about those last pics even if I asked several times...

My boyfriend told me not to fight with it because it's not important but it does matter to me.

Is it ridiculous or excessive to get angry for that?