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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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24/8/07 : after my meeting (which went well - hurrah) i had the afternoon free to stroll around cardiff. i did quite well, restricting my purchases to three books actually...until i started walking back to the car to meet andy. then i added a few more carrier bags...by accident. oops. i blame the heat - it was a roasty toasty afternoon. anyway, i popped to the loo in tk maxx and figured it was damn hell bathroom time!
Konica Aiborg
Image taken with Olympus Stylus 1030SW.
Gorman House Markets, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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'Self reflection is better than self projection'. 1 day Installation by Insa @East London. LDNGraffiti updated - 30/03/2012
Photo looking towards Trinidad Head captured from the Vista Point on U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, in McKinleyville. Humboldt County. Mid July 2013.
While vacationing at Fort Stevens State Park in late July, we rode our bikes out to the historic military batteries along the Columbia River. It was late afternoon, in that beautiful golden light of summer, and the light was perfect for taking pictures. Stephanie was sitting on a bench watching the world go by with her hair blowing in the breeze, perfect for a few quick portraits! I love the light on her face, the Mona Lisa smile, and the self-portrait reflected in her glasses!
This image is featured on my photo blog, thelightisall.blogspot.com, on August 31, 2011. (IMG_7220_1)
Surf and Cross Country Inspiration
Quotes by Bianca Buitendag, Stephanie Gimore, and Carissa Moore
***some photography not produced by Michelle Carandang
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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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...
I'm in love with photoshop and so I decided to play with compositing and I am IN LOVE! lol So much fun! Rosie Hardy was my inspiration for this piece most definitely.
This piece you could call a self portrait. The hands are breaking out the door to signify my struggle when it comes to me being in my own head. The door symbolizes the gate to my mind and how I am trapped once inside it, and I have two versions of me to show that I fight with myself inside my own head.
Week 28
March 17 - 23, 2013
We are doing some re-organizing and re-arranging in the bedroom, and my mirror has been sitting so that I can see the reflection in the TV screen. I have looked and looked at this all week, and decided it was such a neat view I had to capture it. It turned out kind of spooky, but I like it.
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.
self reflections ... play with wide open Hexanon 57mm f1.4 .. at home, hazy day outside + high ISO on S1R.