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Strobist info: Subject is facing a mirror. 1 bare strobe is pointing away from mirror directly in front of subject. 1 strobe strobe (shot through white umbrella, set at 1/8) is 90 degrees to the left of subject. Cleaned up wall-clutter in mirror with PS.
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Byrne getting some deep self-reflection.
Xmas Aries horns headpiece from 22769's advent calendar.
White Rococo frame by (Yummy) from the Arcade Gacha
[AUX] Slouchy Leather Bow-Studded Mustard from the Arcade Gacha
Jacket from Milk Motion
Hair from [kik]
I wake up every morning and look at myself in the mirror. It's cool to realize that a few years ago I was a kid, too short to barely see my entire body in the mirror of my parents house, wearing my favorite pajamas, specifically on Saturday mornings when my mother would quietly shout to me from outside the bathroom door "When you're done taking a bath and brushing your teeth Kenon there's breakfast in the kitchen."
Now I'm here, living in my own apartment, and instead of continuing the bi-Saturday ritual of going to the barber shop to get my hair cut, I learned to cut my own hair. I still watch cartoons, although they're not how they use to. Hey Arnold, Recess, and The Rugrats are now considered old school cartoons to a kid born in the 90's, but Spongebob and The Fairly Oddparents of the 2000's are just as fine.
I remember when being grown was so cool to me! Being able to do what I want, live in an amazing house, own a car, and have a family. Something my parents taught me well... none of this comes without work.
So what is this work? You go somewhere, spend a few hours there 5 days out of the week and they give you money. Of course it wasn't that easy, as I grew up obtaining my first job at the age of 15 working in a McDonalds with a childhood friend of mine.
My parents wanted to raise me and my siblings the best way they could. Not everything was easy, and as a child, changes in human emotion was something I could sense behind a double sided mirror.
I want to have that. I want to see my family's smile as they watch me achieve all the dreams I told them about, yet worried of because as family, they want to see me happy, but understood more then I did that sometimes everything doesn't workout as we plan.
There are a lot of events that I didn't plan to happen. Attend a college outside of my hometown, living in a state without a single family member, bonding with strangers who later on became my greatest friends and distant members of my family.
As I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see me, I see everyone who has had an impact in my life. I have a lot of friends now who say "When you become famous, don't forget us little people."
Every day I step in front of a mirror, I don't see just me, I see a nostalgic self reflection compromised of everyone I love. Their likes, dislikes, and personality characteristics rubbed off on me in some way. If you care to say that I am different and not like everyone else. It's only because of everyone who have made an impact (small or big) in my life. And every time I look in the mirror, I see a nostalgic self reflection of us all.
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Shot with my cam by Krakote super star.
On that postreatment, I decided to not make skin details desapear.
Kamikawa cho, Kansai, Japan 2016 ... Staying at "The House - Artist Retreat" check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K37sRk6ANc
People study with digital pinhole camera. Photographer in window reflection. High ISO for grainy image. At UCLA.
Self and surroundings reflected in a photograph by Alex Webb. Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway, 2006.
I need to take lots of rest and start gymming soon before I am in state where I have to search myself ... Can you see my reflection?
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Just experimenting with the instagram app on my iPhone. If anyone wants to search for me on Instagram, I'm jcowboyjp there.
I hate chain letters, etc. I even hate doing the whole tagging each other thing like I am doing now. The only reason I am doing it now is cause its incentive for me to go take a picture for it. So since Mike tagged me, thank you Mike for getting out of the photographer’s block.
So here is how it works, you are suppose to tag 10 people and write 10 things about yourself that others might not know about you. And since I hate this whole concept of tagging as forms of chain letter, I will be a rebel and tag ONLY 5 people instead of 10.
1. I get distracted very easily, and usually that lead me to procrastinating on things. I think in my college life there was only one time that I didn’t procrastinate. I was known as the king of procrastination. If you follow my photostream you will notice that I even procrastinate in uploading photos to flickr.
2. Even thought l love to travel, I hate traveling by plane. It not that I am scared to fly but the leg room in a plane sucks. And considering that I hate it, I end up traveling by plane quite often.
3. I used to be lactose intolerant, now it’s a little better, the max amount of milk I can have per day is about 1-1.5 cups. Anymore than that bathroom becomes my friend for the day.
4. When I was younger, I lived in England for a while. I even had a British accent, but unfortunately I completely lost it.
5. When I was born I almost died. The nurse came to my dad and basically said (I am paraphrasing) “Which one do you want, the mom or the baby.” The c-section operation had some complications and thank god that ultimately everything went well and both of us (mom and me) were ok.
6. While on the topic of death, 3 out of my 4 grandparents died within 2 months of each other.
7. I am very patient and a lot of the things I can do would annoy most people very easily.
8. I also have some small pet peeves, but with my patience I can overlook them but still it annoys me.
9. I am a very reserved person, most of my life it took me literally years to make close friends. And once I make a close friend I would spill out my guts and tell them everything. And as Mike can testify to this, that it becomes a point that they end up knowing my life more than I can remember it myself.
10. In my house there are 6 computers running for a house hold of 4.
As I said earlier I will only tag 5 people. I tag:
i know my place in this world. Precarious and without promise and I move forward, certain that the universe sends me treasures that will challenge and delight me! Sends me knowledge, that I must have faith even when it freightens me. Especially when it freightens me!
Intense self-reflection that would be a good way to describe the past few weeks of my life. At least, these days have been intense, and they have been self-reflective, if not intensively self-reflective...Remarkably, given my propensity towards self-analysis, I think the core of who I am has remained largely opaque, not just to others, but to myself. Perhaps more importantly, it has come to light that I am actually the opposite of who I am, as you'd imagine, will fool any but the most careful of self-analyses...
Photographer:
Evelyn Park, Engineering Sciences G7
Description:
Close up shot of my eye, with a reflection of myself on a screen visible on the iris
Time & Location:
Dec. 17, 2021 4:24AM in Allston (SEC)
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above, or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try, you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face, and I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face, and I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Having been 'tagged' several times from Flickr Buddies, it's time for me to post my
16 Things
1.I love eccentrics. I like my own eccentricities. They provide interest, flavor and character. If you are an eccentric, chances are we’d get along.
2.I believe words are important. I believe it’s important to choose our words carefully, and to check ourselves before we speak. I have to work at this on a daily basis, and I frequently fall short. But this doesn’t change my belief.
3.Books comfort me.
4.I love The Office and Survivorman. And I watch reruns of West Wing and Law and Order when there’s nothing else on TV.
5.I’m a current events junkie. I live for Tuesdays when Newsweek arrives, I listen to NPR in the car, and Frontline rocks!
6.I love to write. I love witty emails and the clever use of words. Reading other peoples clever writing feels like a brain-tickle.
7.The current economic crisis has really tuned me into simple pleasures, and I’m grateful for an abundance of them. Laughing with my wife, hiking with friends, walking the dogs, yardwork. For right now, I’m really OK not accumulating ‘stuff’.
8.I’ve come close to dying twice. I don’t remember being scared of death either time. I wonder if it will be like that when death comes . . .
9.I can be moody, impatient, and intolerant. I don’t like that about myself.
10.My barber now has to trim my eyebrows and ear hairs each month lest I look like Andy Rooney.
11.I love the ocean, stormy weather, and my wife’s soup. It’s a red-letter day when I can have all three.
12.Even though the world seems full of chaos and lost-ness, I have Hope that things will Change. (Guess who got my vote…?)
13.I believe deeply in Resilience.
14.I believe in Karma, and Paying It Forward, and asking ‘why?’.
15.I hate to be around whinny-ness, complaining, or naggy people.
16.I believe that education is the answer to most of our problems. Not that you need to have the same ideas I have, or think the way I do -- but I think learning new things, exploring different ideas, debating the pros and cons, and using words to express ourselves is how we learn to all get along with one another.
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”~ Thomas Merton
the light was reflecting off the window and I was done with my shooting for the day but I spontaneously snapped some more pictures because the light was so lovely
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