For today's Daily Shoot challenge:

Make a self-portrait, with or without the camera in the frame,

I thought it would be cool to get a picture of me sitting on top of the street light that's in our front yard.

Unfortunately, shortly after I made it to the top, but before I could trigger my camera, the leg I hurt the other day cramped up and I lost my grip. Luckily, just about this time, Christine came out to see if she could help with my shoot. She saw what was happening and had the presence of mind to lean on the shutter release and document my flight earthward.

I figure that even though I didn't push the button, I did get everything set up, so I can claim this as a self portrait and use it in my 365 and for the Dailyshoot.

BTW, I hardly suffered a scratch during my landing -- Christine was there to break my fall. Thanks, honey! She'll be good as new once she gets out of her full body cast in a few months.... ;-)

Strobist: Canon 430EX, full power, shoot through umbrella, out of frame left; Vivitar 285HV, 1/16 power, out of frame right for fill. Triggered with Cactus remote.

=== Self-esteem is what a person thinks of their own self-worth. It includes beliefs and emotions, and is reflected by behavior. ===

In today's world, girls and women are supposed to follow ideals of beauty, appearance and weight, imposed by multiple interconnecting industries that benefit from making them feel bad about themselves. The more women hate their bodies, the more they can buy dieting products that harm them, pile up the cosmetics and consumer products they don't really need, and subject themselves to all kinds of painful practices and plastic surgeries that would make them look pretty. In a world that loves youth, anti-aging creams become best sellers. The same goes for bleaching products that enforce the norm that white skin is beautiful skin. All this is being perpetuated by the entertainment, fashion, media, advertising, diet and cosmetics industries.

In her 1991 book, The Beauty Myth, author Naomi Wolf argued that women were under assault by the "beauty myth" in five areas: work, religion, sex, violence, and hunger. Wolf wrote that women should have "the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically."

Yours truly with a new Iowa Caucuses New Era 9Twenty adjustable cap, recently bought at the Iowa Cubs Team Store at Principal Park.

Des Moines, Iowa

Tuesday afternoon 12 July 2022

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Portrait of Young girl, Little League Baseball, player with bat over shoulder getting ready to swing.

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Self Portraits

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by W+K, c. 2008

by W+K, c. 2008

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media screws up a lot of girls images of themselves by idealizing skinniness as perfection,. causing girls to develop eating disorders and put themselves at risk to achieve that unrealistic and many times unobtainable perfection.

Day 153/365

So last weekend I bought a dress. Purple, v-neck, very pretty. And I had it on a hanger by my bedroom door all week, trying to decide if I was going to be brave enough to actually wear it out. And when Friday came along, I decided to go for it. After work, i had to stop at the Dr. for more blood-work, then I headed home to get ready to go to a house concert by KC Clifford. (http://www.kcclifford.com/)

The text I used in tonight's "letter" is from one of her songs, Jericho. If you're not familiar with her, she's an amazing singer/songwriter from Oklahoma and her lyrics are incredibly powerful. If you've ever seen her live, you know that her concerts and music are laced with personal stories, laughter, confessions. In introducing the song Jericho, she talks about her amazing weight loss, and how it also meant losing some of the protection she'd built for herself over the years. Something I can definitely relate to.

I've only heard her do Jericho live once before, and it's been several years at that. It was my one request at this concert and I was so glad she acquiesced. The full lyrics of the song:

"The ground is shaking these days

High and low I go to find there’s nowhere safe

I crash around in the holes

Vacancies that only a heart can know

Jericho

A fortress made of stones

No protection left except some skin and bones

But we’re infinitely more

Than just the sum of all the pain that’s come before

Jericho

Maybe our walls come crashing down

Maybe it’s so we can be found

Joining our voices with the sound of redemption

Maybe there’s so much more than this

Maybe we’re living all there is

We’ve all got suffering no one gets an exemption

Maybe we need no best defense

Maybe when we stop fighting against

We find that in our nakedness is ascension

Jericho"

And as I sat listening, in my vibrant, beautiful, purple dress I was struck again by her powerful lyrics, about how much kinship I have with this song. And it's not about my weight, although yes-- that is part of it... but it's about this whole process really. About the process of this project, the process of my LIFE over the last few months. The dress really was just... a very loud outward expression of some inner changes I've made. The truth is I'm not really much of a "girly" girl. I have my quirks, sure, but Dresses, heels, makeup-- not really my thing. I'm not really a tomboy either.. .I just... prefer to be comfortable. Jeans, tshirts, sneakers or ballet flats for work purposes.

And part of that I know is more about my body image. I don't feel, or haven't felt, pretty enough to wear a dress. And I'm working on that, truly. Still. I bought a dress. I wore it out of the house. And granted, I wore it to a house concert, surrounded by people I love who love me. But I did it. And it was ok. Better than ok. After awhile, I got more comfortable, I let my walls down, i took off the shirt I'd brought to wear overtop in self-consciousness. And at the end of the night, I went home feeling a little better, a little calmer, a little differently than I did when I left the house.

The other part of it is my safety net. My fat, my rolls, my cellulite. I use my body to protect myself. And it is time to accept that I don't need that safety net anymore-- that in fact, that very safety net keeps me from having experiences and taking risks that I WANT to take. I need to stop fighting myself and let go of the net.

So... at the next show I go to... I'm going to wear my dress. Out. In public. Around dancers and fans and artists and photographers. Around strangers. Around people who will love me or judge me. And I will get used to letting people see ME. All the facets of me. I will allow myself to be naked (figuratively of course) and know that when I can do that... I will rise above all the body issues that I continue to carry with me once and for all.

This photo features a woman standing near the ocean, wearing a black shirt and glasses. She appears to be looking at the camera, possibly posing for a picture. The woman's hair is long and black, and she is wearing a necklace. The ocean serves as a beautiful backdrop for this scene, creating a serene and picturesque atmosphere.

Taken at a house of mirrors at an amusement park many long years ago. I recently rediscovered this image of my son and thought it was delightful. Its fun to play with our self images and turn yourself into a superhero, or skinny man or shrink your self down to two feet or so. Manly its all about suprising yourself and having fun.

I took this photo of my youngest aunt last week as she and her son were visiting Toronto. Ok, so I think I should explain the yellow bucket, “hat”, before I go on! As we existed the apartment building to go to her car we were surprised with very strong rain and since there was no where to hide except to squeeze under the doorway covering or go back in, my aunt automatically put the empty (and clean! LOL!) yellow bucket on her head, and said, “Oh thanks God I have this hat with me, otherwise my hair would be ruined!”

Of course, I laughed…because I’d rather get wet than wear a yellow bucket on my head! Later as I was working on the photo I thought about how God wired men and women so differently! But that’s what makes women so cute, adorable, and attractive! I am constantly surprised to see men hate the differences between them and their wives…but didn’t God mean for our lives’ partners to complete us? Why do we then expect them to duplicate us? I would hate it if my future wife talks about cars all days long! (That’s what my friends are for!) I want her to be like any other woman likes taking care of her hair and nails, loves shoes, and not be interested in cars or sports…it is that difference that makes men feel like men when they are with women. Isn’t it? I don’t know for sure, because I am single and have never been in a relationship, so until I get married I really can’t speak from personal experience about the matter.

So after some time on Gimp I was pleased with the outcome and so I sent my aunt the photo and when she called me the next day she told me that she wants me to erase the photo and not show it to anybody because she looks so ugly in it! Ugly is the last word that comes to my mind when I look at this photo! If I thought it was ugly I wouldn’t even bother working on it!

But I knew how she felt because I struggle with low self-image too. To be honest, every single girl/woman from the Middle East (I am from Iraq) I’ve got to know a bit more than “hi and bye”, I’ve realized she suffers from low self-image. Of course, every time you take Christ out of the equation of life all kind of things go wrong: all the way from bitterness to murder, from low self-image to suicide, and so on and so forth.

So after few days of persuading her to give me permission to post this photo on my flickr, she agreed. I hope you like it. I will leave you with those verses that I believe can help us see ourselves the way God sees us:

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Psalm 139:13-16

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

Isaiah 45:9

"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,

to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.

Does the clay say to the potter,

'What are you making?'

Does your work say,

'He has no hands'?

Psalm 119:73

Your hands made me and formed me;

give me understanding to learn your commands.

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;

but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,

and like a root out of dry ground.

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,

nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

Exodus 4:11-12

The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 10:12

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

2 Corinthians 10:17-18

But, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord." For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

(Toronto, ON; summer 2008.)

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Last night cooking with Marley.

An overweight Filipino man stands at the doorway to his modest home. A life-size picture of a blonde woman holding a teddy bear and wearing a sexy pink dress is attached to the door. Photo taken on May 19, 2009 in Malate, Philippines.

I really want to appreciate all my friends and 'fam' who have shared their comments on this recent series of photos. I'm in a period of examining myself through my craft (photography). So all the great comments you've left I really take to heart as I learn to love myself in new ways that have long been void.

Thanks for coming with me on the journey!

FINALLY! First full week of school is over and it felt like FOREVER!!! To celebrate i'll post one of the few pictures i took this week on my only night off dance! This one probably turned out to be one of my favorites!

Off to the boyfriends for the weekend and then back for another crazy busy week so probably won't be uploading crazy lots!

Have a greeat weekend!

xoxo

Feminist/Sexist

BFA Thesis Project and Gallery Show

As a twenty-one year old woman, I am often faced with the need and desire to fulfill two or more conflicting roles. By showing the audience only the black and white, I encourage them to reflect on their own gray areas. I use quilts, traditionally a woman's medium, as sites to talk about sexuality, self-image, and stereotypes.

The daily struggle i have with myself

to put make up on or to not

am i enhancing, or am i really hiding?

the magic's not in the make up

I am beautiful the way i am.

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Here's me on an average workday, I get up and dressed, do my safetyshot in the morning (I've noticed I look quite tired in the morning which is not good for my selfimage)

I work at the office ( me on a securitycam holding some mysterious object)

I relax at work (playing te addictive game Drawsomething) and I stand in front of mirrors on toilets and elevators ;)

All in a days work before I head home and meet the bf and the cats.

Tomorrow is going to exciting as I'm lining up for tickets to Anthony & the Johnsons and I'm meeting my tattoo artist to discuss and design my tattoo!!

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Too often dieting takes the place of healthy living, and body obsession gets in the way of self-confidence. February is National Eating Disorders Awareness month, a time for the Ole Miss community to rise up, talk about and denounce negative body images. A negative body image is a massive issue for college students, and since February is National Eating Disorders Awareness month, now is the time to address it. While exercise, dieting and healthy living are good on the surface, they can lead to obsessive habits and low self-esteem. Sara Wilburn, a nutrition graduate student and dietetic intern at the university, said that her goal this month is to make people aware of this huge issue. “Healthy living has become such an epidemic,” she said. “A person may not have a diagnosed eating disorder, but they may be struggling with body image.” Dr. Melinda Valliant, a nutrition professor and registered dietitian, echoed this concern. “As a society we have become so focused on obesity, we forget about the other end of the spectrum,” she said. “Personally, I think that we don’t do enough to bring awareness to the problem of eating disorder.” One of the ways this month is used to bring awareness to the issue is through the film “America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments.” The purpose of the film is to promote healthy living as an alternative to dieting. The film will show at the Jackson Avenue Center — the math lab — Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. Darryl Roberts, the producer and director of the film, will be there to speak and answer questions. There are several resources available for students who think they have an unhealthy relationship with food. One of these is a new group called Making Peace with Food, which meets at the University Counseling Center on Tuesdays from 3:30-5 p.m. This informal group is free and open for any student who even thinks he or she might have a problem. “It is not structured and covers binge eating, guilt associated with eating certain food and an overall wide spectrum of issues,” Valliant said. “It’s pretty common to struggle with food,” Valliant said. In addition to this group, there are one-on-one resources available at the UM Nutrition Clinic in Lenoir Hall and medical help available at Student Health Services. Valliant says that the student health center is the best place to start if a student thinks he or she has a serious problem. Wilburn said that students are often afraid to admit they have a problem, but once they have done that, they have taken their first step toward self-peace and confidence. “I encourage you to challenge yourself and take the first step forward,” Wilburn said. “You may surprise yourself, for that one step forward, whether it’s talking to a trusted friend or professional, could be the first step toward a new way of living. The important thing is to know you aren’t alone.” RESOURCES AT A GLANCE Making Peace with Food Location: University Counseling Center Tuesdays 3:30-5 p.m. Free for all students Informal group of people who have a variety of struggles with food University Nutrition Clinic Location: Lenoir Hall One-on-one counseling New service for students Student Health Center Medical help A good place to start if you think you have a serious eating disorder Showing of the film “America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments” with producer/director Darryl Roberts Location: Jackson Avenue Center Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. Purpose of film is to promote healthy living as an alternative to dieting “America the Beautiful” Owned by UM Nutrition Clinic and available for checkout by any group, student organization, etc., that wants to borrow it

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Young girl Little League Baseball player rounding third base heading for home plate

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Malini is my colleague at work. We were on a business trip to Singapore and our office was at Suntec City, Tower #4 which is like bang in front of the "Fountain of Wealth", apparently the world's largest fountain.

This place is a gorgeous place. The lush and heavy flow of water is so captivating and wonderful. We spent an extra five minutes here during lunch and took some pictures.

Malini actually thinks i look stylish in this picture. I think it can't be more comical. Anyone here on flickr can vouch from that look of mine that im so concerned about focal length, ISO, focus, Metering pattern, AF, EV and what not?!? I'm holding the camera to shoot a self portrait, isn't that the most responsible job in the world. Shouldn't i as a addictive flickr'ite get the perfect shot? Hmm... sometimes life is just not that easy, especially when shooting a self portrait on a point and shoot, when the photographer is a DSLR junkie. What a cruel world we live in!

Canon PowerShot A590IS, Program Auto, ISO400, shot hand held with camera turned around.

There are homeless people, construction workers and all kinds of interesting people that I have run into in my explorations of the city. I love to catch facial expressions that reflect emotion and the costumes; (clothing) people choose to portray their self-image will usually get me wondering about who they are beyond the exterior they present to the world.

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Ty Ziegel and Renee Kline have their portrait taken before their wedding.

Stop action movie about how you, my dears, are beautiful creations of the Most High.

Watch the full version, here.

Oh please, do it. The ending is so worth your time.

Young girl Little League Baseball player rounding third base heading for home plate

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Feminist/Sexist

BFA Thesis Project and Gallery Show

As a twenty-one year old woman, I am often faced with the need and desire to fulfill two or more conflicting roles. By showing the audience only the black and white, I encourage them to reflect on their own gray areas. I use quilts, traditionally a woman's medium, as sites to talk about sexuality, self-image, and stereotypes.

slumber partying it up in mexico tonight

Here can you see a beautiful self Image of me , i've made this with my first cellphone with a camera , Sony Ericsson T610 , because the Quality isn't so good - 0,1 MP - i've made this now in black and white with a little granulation over the big pixel. Marki

be-loved.

this project definitely has me thinking about body/self-image.

i'm a woman. we deal with this question on a very deep, almost self-defining level most of our lives: am i beautiful? if no one is telling us we are, sometimes we do not believe it. sometimes even when people are telling us we are, we still don't believe it. our point of view on this matter can be very skewed to what one person did or didn't say. often the images we allow into our lives also begin to be used in comparison against ourselves. role models become idols that we want so much to be like that we forget how to be ourselves. i think a lot of women agree, this is a hard thing to shut down; it feels like an uncontrollable part of our brain at times.

i've been through a lot of stages with this. i think the hardest times were when i could not see past that one part or another of my body, my face, my hair that i didn't like. every way that things did not look exactly how i thought they should made self-acceptance impossible. at times, especially as a teen, this overriding sense of imperfection meant i couldn't recognize who i was in the mirror. and it's not just about weight. it occured when i was both too skinny and at a different time when i was heavier than i could stand. it happened when i was a teenager and again later when i was in my twenties. it doesn't matter where you are in life. if you are constantly noticing the small defects that you don't like and pointing them out to yourself, there's a level of self-acceptance that is hard to achieve. when those defects become more important to you than your assets, even the people chanting their love for your beauty or personality won't mean a thing.

eating disorders of all kinds are based on a disjointed sense of the reality of your body. you can't love yourself with what you eat because you don't care about what is happening in your body. you'd rather forget it, or harm it, and that's why it seems like an o.k. idea to starve yourself or binge and purge or over-exercise. you can't feel good in your body if you are not loving it with the way you eat.

as i've grown up into an adult and to a more stable place in my self-image, my perception on this has become more simple. i am woman. i am an image bearer of God. that means God created me with the Imago Dei (image of God) and my beauty, my body, my self, was made to be exactly the way it is. if i don't love the way i am and nourish the body as it has needs, i will consistently feel incomplete and unhappy with my appearance. i've found that, perhaps especially for women, unhappiness with appearance can correlate with unhappiness overall. and i'm not saying we should base our joy on our happiness with our appearance, but i am saying that it's important to take note of that within yourself and do something about it. love yourself by nourishing, tending to, and appreciating exactly what you are.

you don't have to deny the fact that you want to feel beautiful. everyone does. that's not vanity, exactly. i think it's a part of the joy of experiencing life to feel beautiful and appreciated for the way you are, and usually that comes along with a healthy appearance and personal style. it's part of grace; we get to see each other and love that seeing. we can even love seeing ourselves, although of course we ought to be cautious there too because vanity is also a disjointed self-image problem. but i do believe it's ok, perhaps especially in the bond of marriage, to see yourself as beautiful in another's eyes and to accept that for yourself. beautiful women who are loved by good men often appear even more beautiful - why? because they have been loved deeply and see themselves as loved. it's that glow. when we know God's love, there can be a yet deeper understanding of our belovedness that can make our hearts softer. we can appreciate and sense our body's beauty; the house of the beloved soul.

the other day in a meeting at work, i noticed that one of the women there - in her fifties - had caught sight of her image reflecting in one of the windows across from where she was sitting. every time she spoke, she watched herself instead of looking at us. it was clear that she was interested in what she saw. she liked herself. she fixed her hair and looked into her own eyes. lovely. and she is a beautiful woman, not exactly because of some cookie cutter image or weight or symmetrical face. just because she is clearly loved in her life and has come to love herself just as she is. that's beauty.

song of the day:

"Just the Way you Are"

by Bruno Mars

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