I think it's good to comment about the person you are writing to. Things you have in common, or something about that person's profile that caught your eye. Do you live in the same community? Share the same musical tastes? Does she have a feature that you particularly like (long hair, athletic? whatever?) Maybe she lives somewhere that you've visited before?

Getting back to your photos, there are some on your profile that are really very handsome (2, 3 and 4), and then there's that interesting altered one (with the silvery hair--but why the commando thing of bullets?) All are more flattering than your bare chested one. Not that there's anything wrong with your physique, but I think many here would enjoy seeing you on your profile, as they might see you in the neighbourhood.

Anyway, this all coming from someone much older than you. But at least I' m honest, and I'm trying to be kind.

It is a bad picture, on that I will agree. But then yours is a bad picture also Nicaragua. I can't tell if a person is gay just by a picture there are some manly looking men that are gay as they can be in this world. I take bad pictures myself and will hide if i even think the camera is being taken out.