Tina M89
When one door closes...
Well this was not my intended shot for “Me Again Monday,” with the theme imitate. Things did not work out as planned. My original plan was to duplicate one of Anna Gay’s images from her first project 365 www.flickr.com/photos/annagaycoan/4319504114/in/set-72157...
(sorry I haven’t yet figured out how to make the proper link so the whole address doesn’t show). Anna was the first self portrait artist I had ever come across and I thought her work was beautiful and captivating.
So I had taken some shots to use but my computer has had some issues and no longer recognized my adobe photoshop, we tried reloading but this error kept coming up that stopped it from loading. So I am without photoshop and couldn’t do what I would have liked to do. I have to admit I was actually quite ticked, annoyed, irritated, etc. You know those first initial reactions/feelings when things just aren’t going to work out as planned and it’s like it’s the end of the world. Some of those feelings that you’d rather not have and it makes you take a second look at yourself and you realize that in the big scope of life this is minor, super minor.
But even in little things like this you learn and grow. So I’m settled and okay that I didn’t really get to do what I would have liked. Life still goes on and you look for different opportunities, different ideas. I think in all of life’s situations we need to have this outlook, if one door closes you don’t just give up, you look for another one that’s open. You learn to let go of what didn’t work out or what was not meant to be. It is in the letting go that we are then free to embrace other things and move on in life. When we desperately hang onto what is not meant to be we are hindered from moving forward and we become stuck in life and it’s like we are blinded to even seeing the new opportunities that are before us.
This image is one of the very first self portraits I took but never posted, taken a year ago. For my 365 I decided to do a month of self portraits, it made me nervous; I had never done self portraits before but really wanted to give it a try. So I went out the day before I was to start and practiced some, I felt like a dork making all these different expressions out there in the woods all by myself, hoping nobody would be walking through :-) It was a learning month and I am amazed by those who can do a whole year of self portraits.
So even though this isn’t an imitation of any of Anna Gay’s work, she was my initial inspiration for doing self portraits.
When one door closes...
Well this was not my intended shot for “Me Again Monday,” with the theme imitate. Things did not work out as planned. My original plan was to duplicate one of Anna Gay’s images from her first project 365 www.flickr.com/photos/annagaycoan/4319504114/in/set-72157...
(sorry I haven’t yet figured out how to make the proper link so the whole address doesn’t show). Anna was the first self portrait artist I had ever come across and I thought her work was beautiful and captivating.
So I had taken some shots to use but my computer has had some issues and no longer recognized my adobe photoshop, we tried reloading but this error kept coming up that stopped it from loading. So I am without photoshop and couldn’t do what I would have liked to do. I have to admit I was actually quite ticked, annoyed, irritated, etc. You know those first initial reactions/feelings when things just aren’t going to work out as planned and it’s like it’s the end of the world. Some of those feelings that you’d rather not have and it makes you take a second look at yourself and you realize that in the big scope of life this is minor, super minor.
But even in little things like this you learn and grow. So I’m settled and okay that I didn’t really get to do what I would have liked. Life still goes on and you look for different opportunities, different ideas. I think in all of life’s situations we need to have this outlook, if one door closes you don’t just give up, you look for another one that’s open. You learn to let go of what didn’t work out or what was not meant to be. It is in the letting go that we are then free to embrace other things and move on in life. When we desperately hang onto what is not meant to be we are hindered from moving forward and we become stuck in life and it’s like we are blinded to even seeing the new opportunities that are before us.
This image is one of the very first self portraits I took but never posted, taken a year ago. For my 365 I decided to do a month of self portraits, it made me nervous; I had never done self portraits before but really wanted to give it a try. So I went out the day before I was to start and practiced some, I felt like a dork making all these different expressions out there in the woods all by myself, hoping nobody would be walking through :-) It was a learning month and I am amazed by those who can do a whole year of self portraits.
So even though this isn’t an imitation of any of Anna Gay’s work, she was my initial inspiration for doing self portraits.