Mark of the Wizardby
ImagineerComment by melismatica: I have a puncture scar on my instep that I got when I was 6 years old. I was riding my brother's bike (5 Speed Schwinn Stingray) with bare feet. I had to push off from the porch step to actually get the oversized bike going and my foot slipped and hit the larger gear. The scar looks like fang marks on my foot. ;-D I call it my vampire bite.
This is a cool scar. It looks like it must have been a painful lesson about practical joking, though. I have attention deficit with hyperactivity and I have the scars to prove it. In addition to the vampire scar, that summer I was viciously bitten by a dog (a Westie) I had been told not to mess with, requiring 25 very precise stitches to sew my upper lip back on and later plastic surgery. A few weeks later I crushed 1/3 of an inch of the tip of my middle finger by slamming it in the door.
I have a few scars on my wrist and arm and knuckle (the cat bit right down to the bone of my finger) from a feral cat I was told not to mess with. This was when I was 24 so you would think after 18 years I would have learned.
Now I regret not given this a higher score. I think the title and the X-Acto blade threw me off. I thought it was an interesting shot and well done but it seemed like a weird cult thing.
After reading what I just wrote about some of my own scars, I realized that I had a brief notion of photographing my right hand with my middle finger up. That is the one that is has a chunk missing. The nail grows really wierd and you can see the flesh of my finger under it. It has been Over 30 years so I'm so used to it I don't notice it, but every now and then I'm able to see it with fresh eyes and it is rather fascinatingly ugly. I decided against it because I wasn't up to futzing with lighting. I didn't enter anything.
Kudos for being your usual defiant self and entering this.
Message edited by author 2004-07-07 21:03:53. 
Photographer found comment helpful.
