Susan Sinclair  e-Mail on Headless

From: Sinclair, Susan K. (JSC-DX11) [mailto:susan.k.sinclair@nasa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:21 PM
To: Charles Sayles ; ido26.2@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: Another Headless Picture from Las Vegas

Well, first off I agree with Laura - they are cute legs!! 

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Susan

 

From: Charles Sayles [mailto:charles@csayles.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:33 AM
To: ido26.2@earthlink.net
Cc: Ruth Morrow ; Joni Yung ; Jay (the rookie) Seashore; Dana Mosell ; tomadair@mindspring.com; Winston Davis ; Laurence Macon ; Paula Boone ; Sinclair, Susan K. (JSC-DX11); Krumrey, Carolyn M. (JSC-EC3); Albert Shum
Subject: Another Headless Picture from Las Vegas

Laura

It was good to see you at your charms stand at the New Las Vegas Marathon and to get a good Texas hug.   I hope you had a good day of selling there in Las Vegas .   Will you be going to Houston ?  I will be going to Houston and helping with the 50 States Marathon booth.

As we discussed in the early miles of the New Las Vegas Marathon, another picture was taken of me where my head was cut-off.  (Let’s rephrase that – where my head was excluded from the picture.  Not quite so bloody sounding).  This brings to three the number of marathon picture where I appear without my head.   I have attached all three.

The first is from the Grizzly 2003 marathon and was taken at about Mile 12 by a water station volunteer, a local high school girl.   In this picture we are standing by the grating of a cattle guard.

The second picture is the one that you took of me while we were running the Delaware Marathon in 2004.  Since I was standing by a drainage grate, I labeled this one, “A Grate Picture”.   The attachment not only shows the picture but how we talked about it at the 2004 Marine Corp Marathon.

The third picture was taken by another runner this past weekend the day before the New Las Vegas Marathon as I toured Hoover Dam.   This is over two and a half years since the last headless picture.  The main reason for this long period was a change in camera types.  I changed from a camera with a view finder (subject to parallax) to ones with a view screen.  The most important thing this picture has in common with the other two is that my face has been excluded from the picture.  As we discussed while running the New Las Vegas Marathon, this picture does not show my naked legs.   However this is my tightest pair of jeans.  And if I were to switch sex roles for a short instant and look at the picture from a woman’s perspective the imagination races forward with what is under those jeans.

I am sure Freud would have a field day psycho analyzing those who took these pictures. He would want to know what sort of frustrations these picture takers have and what kind of psychological baggage they are carrying that leads them to ignore my face and focus on my legs.    Freud would also, no doubt, want to know how I felt about women not liking my face enough to include it in the pictures.   And do I have feelings of insecurity because these women are not interested in my face?  

Charles

 

 To see a picture of the photographer <click here>.