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Often in life, one must cleanse the soul; undergoing a series of self reflective exercises to uncover the highs and lows pertaining to one's life. Just like this photo depicts beautiful Mount Lassen, and its reflection on the lake, life sometimes can and will display the obvious to your very own eyes. Live, love and enjoy life. Photo of Mount Lassen captured at Manzanita Lake. Shasta County. Late October 2012.

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Bridgette Guerzon Mills | Self Reflection, encaustic mixed media, 7x5 inches

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+4 in comments. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Inspirational credit goes to Savannah. I don't have her awesome red sweater and amazing long hair, though. For some reason this amazing song by the incomparable Cyndi Lauper came to mind while I was doing this. Listen. Be amazed. I dare you not to get tears in your eyes!

There's something that I never told

When I find myself slipping off of my pedestal

I'm a fierce believer afraid to fall.

Could be the one comes rushing in.

On croit que les regards disparaissent lorsque l'on détourne les yeux. Ils changent simplement d'endroit. Il en est qui continuent de vivre derrière nos paupières, dans le silence des souvenirs, ou dans cette version de nous-mêmes qui refuse de partir. On ne cesse jamais vraiment de se regarder et l'on apprend seulement à le faire autrement.

EN We think a gaze disappears the moment we look away. It simply finds another place to exist. Some remain behind our eyelids, within the silence of memory or inside the version of ourselves that never truly leaves.

We never stop looking at ourselves and we simply learn to do it differently.

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Continuing their search for individual identity, the sentient mannequins have begun using their own bodies as canvases. One has transformed its standardized wooden form with an exuberant floral design and is completing the process by painting its face, becoming simultaneously artist, subject, and artwork. Behind it, another mannequin studies its unpainted body in a mirror, contemplating its own possibilities. Once manufactured as anonymous objects intended to display identities chosen by humans, the mannequins now claim authority over their appearance. Body painting becomes an act of self-determination: identity is no longer something assigned to them, but something they can imagine, create, and continually revise. Image Sources: Painted Mannequin: Chatgpt with inspiration from Inkspirednl on Etsy; Mirror mannequin by chatgpt and alterations by Linda Lewis; Bird_Bluejay_BeauxOiseauxArt_Etsy; Kyle's splatter brushes; Backgrouind: edan-cohen-Sz5vFRzabbE-unsplash;

Lost in a haze of self reflection a patron ponder his life.

It's this type of street photography that I derive the most satisfaction in capturing that one moment in time that defines an image.

Astor Piazzolla - The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Autumn

Photo captured along Dyerville Road at Founders Grove near Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.

What if lenses are portals in the Multiverse? It reflects lights, it lets light through. It even changes the original light wave by miniature particles (or species) on and in it. Even scratches somehow influence your image.

But what if other Universes from time to time appear in our images? Maybe it's not me, or she. It might be better me, or better other, our good parts, our more conscious manifestations...

Or even the worst version of mine, who does a lot of bad things, but at the same time occasionally captures the same stuff that I did... Who knows, but this little reflection of me is using your dream cam with your dream lens... or it may be just a slightly different set up depending on condition on this particular Universe...

It can be everything. Perhaps someone from the other end similarly is looking at his reflection in this old glass and thinking about multiverses and various manifestations of self...

This image was originally taken for Macro Monday's "Seeing Double" Theme. You can see the original image below in comments. Two texture images and a lot of sliding resulted in this image.

An Idea that popped into my head. May see a few of me as part of my bucket list to get 12 Self Portraits I deem worthy of framing or printing at the end of the year. I am glad my muse helped with my idea in the month of January!

#210 of the 365 day challenge. View On Black

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Have been doing a lot of this recently, reflecting that is, and generally the thoughts are in color. :-)))

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saw this woman on the stoop of her building in midtown, as i was walking to lunch. i hoped i could get this picture. but i had run out of film. so i stopped. i reloaded the camera. prefocussed. walked by. shot.

this is the first frame of this roll.

most of the other images on that roll were not worth mentioning.

not completely sure what it is about the film pictures that makes them calmer and less frantic. i think i shoot at a similar speed when shooting film. maybe i am more thoughtful. maybe i try to imagine more precisely what it could be that might help the shot? and perhaps the distance helps too. i have maybe 50 exposed films sitting in the freezer now. i have no idea what i shot on those films. maybe when i finally take the time to have them developed, maybe when i finally take the time to look at them. maybe the encounter will be more meaningful than staring at the photos in the import window of lightroom, or on the small display of the M9 (or another digital camera for that matter.) perhaps the distance is important. perhaps it is good to try to make things work, and then to step away. maybe a few months would be good as a distance. maybe even years. immediate sharing is probably cool for some things. but some other things just need their time.

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Today I had some pretty intense thoughts come to mind. I had a great woman's bible study meeting tonight. Which provoked even more intense thoughts. I had a great conversation with a great friend and talked about these things.

I haven't been myself for a very long time.....I have long been changing, manipulating, hiding, selective showing, leaning, weaning.....different parts of who I am.

I sit here now....28 years old, a single mother of one and just now starting to see who I am.

I honestly couldn't say the right words to give justice to this process I'm going through.

I will probably try to write about it tomorrow. It's nearly 2 am.....and I couldn't sleep. Had a little anxiety and found myself waking up with night sweats and such. I have had about 4 nights great sleep......which have been great since I was not sleeping well for months. So hopefully this is just from the fact that I had a big day....;o)

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But somewhere in there, is a moment, which is.

For today's FGR challenge, Self-Reflection.

Sometimes folding into yourself feels like the only relief, a brief pause from everything outside.

That summer… God, that summer was a disaster too.

First, we were evicted from the house where I’d grown up.

I took apart all the furniture myself and moved it to the next house.

But so much was lost along the way: memories, books, clothes, furniture, my first stuffed toy. Inside its stuffing, I’d hidden all my secrets, written down and tucked away.

I lost photographs, too. Strips of film showing a four-year-old me, laughing.

I lost my room, where so many memories had taken shape. My childhood. My teenage years.

And, worst of all, the person I used to be.

An enigmatic self I can barely remember now.

But that wasn’t all. I fell in love again.

Everything swirling around in my head felt like a nuclear catastrophe.

My psychiatrist convinced me to stop living with my mum. We couldn’t go on living together like that.

I had no control over anything.

And all of it… for love.

This photograph was taken by Andreea and edited by me in 2019, back at my dad’s house, when I started studying and working.

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

~Martin H. Fischer

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For Kids…

Have a great day...dear friends! :-)

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Whatever you see – it is you

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Soulscape

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B3 - this energy motivates you to analyse your self.

"Who am I?"

A3 would motivate to the question:

"Do I look ok?"

If you are interested in your psyche, your dreams and your consciousness, be sure this interest is empowered by B3.

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Energy B3 motivates: Find out who you are.

When I felt unhappy with myself and the world, the key to happiness lay in my self. I could not change the world, but the way I see the world has changed dramatically. These changes are very welcome to me because they caused inner peace.

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Seelenlandschaften

Dieses ist ein „Seelenbild”, das heißt es zeigt einen innerseelischen Vorgang.

Dieser Vorgang wird auch Selbstbetrachtung oder Selbstanalyse genannt. Selbstanalyse ist die Voraussetzung für inneren Frieden mit mir und meiner Umwelt.

Mit anderen Worten: Ich bin nicht mehr abhängig davon, was andere von mir denken. Kein Verbiegen mehr, sondern authentisches Sein.

Im Prozess der Selbstbetrachtung wandelt sich die von Außen herangetragene Kritik und wird durch den Vorgang der Selbstkritik ersetzt. In der letzen Stufe wird die Selbstkritik von innerem Frieden abgelöst.

Innerer Friede ist die Gnade, sich selbst so akzeptieren zu können, wie man ist. Äußere Kritik kann dieser inneren Ausbalanciertheit kaum noch etwas anhaben.

Mit diesem Bild möchte ich einen wichtigen Aspekt der Energie B3 zeigen. Dieser löst Selbstbezogenheit aus. Doch keineswegs narzisstische.

Mirror Mirror ist das Gegenteil der Energie, zu der A3 motiviert. Wer einen starken Schub von dieser Energieform bekommt, wird automatisch narzisstisch. Viele kennen das Märchen Schneewittchen und die Eitelkeit der bösen Königin. In diesem Zusammenhang taucht die berühmte Frage auf: „Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?“ Eitelkeit und Narzissmus gehen Hand in Hand.

Mit dem oben gezeigten Bild ist es die psychoanalytische Selbstbespiegelung gemeint. Daher ist der Schatten von A3 – B3, die Tiefenpsychologie.

Psychologische Betrachtungen durch A3 bleiben an der Oberfläche (äußeres Leben)– B3 geht in die Tiefe (inneres Leben).

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Double trouble, two new cameras for me in 2025. Hoping to shoot more analog during the year on an #minoltaX700 with a #rokkor45mmf2 and a digital fixed with the #fujix100vi

Tokio Tower reflected in its basement pillar

Abstracted and distorted reflections of the photographer and the garden setting by the stainless-steel pock-marked sculpture in a tertiary institution campus in Melbourne.

Taken with the EF 50mm f/1.4 USM prime.

Borrowed Fujifilm X100T / June 2026

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