With recognition, comes a reputation.  The more people that know you, the more will have an opinion about you.  I have spent a few years now taking pictures for an amateur society, so everyone knows me.  The majority of this attention is positive, but occasionally, you get the sense that by standing out, even for something positive, you will get knocked.  However, those people are generally those who are only able to criticise, never to actually do things themselves.  Stuff 'em.

She watched someone laughing, mouth open, teeth bared.  You could hear the harsh edge to the humour that belied the smiles.  Someone was being skewered – her?