How to choose a professional portrait

Hmm... there's something so honest about this shot. The trials and confusions of the ministry are so evident in my face... but somehow I thought it wouldn't be quite the right one to use professionally. Although here I am, posting it on my blog for all the world to see.

So my boyfriend (that word always makes me feel like I'm in high school... oh well), Adam, is a great photographer and he's taken some good professional photos of me, but this actually isn't one of them. It was taken by a wonderful man at the parish where I've been deaconing; he was taking portraits of the whole parish for a photo directory. So, we were trying different poses until he finally said, "Just make a series of different expressions every three seconds, and I'll just keep shooting!" I was sort of paralyzed... expressions? What KIND of expressions??? I didn't know what to do, and this was one of the faces that came out.

But it's my favorite, obviously. Although this is the only place you're going to see it.