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Self Portrait of Photographer Jennifer Bohmbach
February 7, 2011 - Modified/Cropped on March 22, 2011
website: www.evoljen.com
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Exposure: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50 mm (x1.6)
ISO Speed: 100
Shot in RAW format in Av mode with automatic focus.
Developed with Canon Digital Photo Professional.
It wasn't until I was about to post this that I realized that the reflection is different from the real section. It made me think of that movie Mirrors and how reflections don't always mirror reality.
Model: Keyla Letanno
MUA: Arax Khachadurian
SELF-REFLECTION
On the Rorschach test, when people often comment about the symmetry of the inkblots, it is a sign of their being introspective and self-reflective. For this image, I found it amusing to think about a cow contemplating itself. I choice a square format to convey the idea of an introspectively boxed-in bovine, with the enclosed fence reinforcing the idea of that dilemma. The religious statue in the background, which straddles the symmetry, suggests a solution to the cow's predicament.
Although I created this image by duplicating, flipping horizontally, and reconnecting the photo to itself, you'll notice that not everything on the right side is symmetrical to the left. Perfect symmetry feels very predictably static, while symmetry that is a bit "off" makes the eye wonder and wander.
This shot was taken on the coast of Ireland.
I have been working on a BMW Birthday mix cd for someone who used to be a major part of my life, and has now faded to idle chit chat about a dog. I heard a song a few weeks ago and immediatly knew that this year I had to make him a cd. I started with a list, and added and subtracted from that list, I burnt two copies, then immdeiately decided they were not what I wanted.. Who knows what will go on that final cd that gets thrown in the mail just to be slipped through the mailslot of the side door of that houseon Perrot. Whatever it is I am sure it will be a relflection of me, a reflection of how I have (or have not) moved on with my life.
For Flickr Group Roulette's challenge (Tuesday 10.07.08) Self Reflection
Why are you always upside down? Just when you think everything is facing straight ahead you end up tilted. The story of my life.
This photo is SOOC too.
Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream.
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean.
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright.
So I'm breaking the habit,
I'm breaking the habit
Tonight
A sculpture at Chatsworth House as part of the 'Beyond Limits' collection by Nadim Karim ... spot the interloper!
"Self-reflection,prayer,rituals, meditation and other spiritual practices have the power to release the "life force" in the deepest levels of the human psyche, levels that secular interventions cannot reach. In Native American culture this is seen through their respect and love for the world around them."
This was an exert from one of my many psych essays, how does this correlate to the photo above?
Easy, see photography is my sort of self reflection, a time for prayer, and meditation all at once. Through it, I reach that sense of self and fight through the ego to the most sacred part of the human mind. Just like the Natives love their earth, its beauty and its gifts; I wonder each day how this world never ceases to be any more perfect while surrounded by humanly imperfection and destruction. In these moments is when love can be felt in its truest nature, you feel one with the world. You reach nirvana.
On another note, I need new lenses and a good camera cleaning.
Harness for Self-Reflection
Combining sculpture, image and text, "Harness for Self-Reflection" (2021) considers the tenuous relationship between chronic illness, agency and activism. Object and image compose a self-referential installation and looping phenomena that choreographs movement within the surrounding space. Documenting a private performance ritual of self-examination, eight silken image-texts hang in a pinwheel formation around a central copper cylinder. A wearable viewing apparatus or harness, hangs limp with nonuse at the structure’s center.
Cotton cord becomes the common thread between illness and culture, sexuality and healing, social bondage and autonomous political agency. Interweaving the ‘domestic’ craft of macramé with erotic shibari techniques, the harness binds the body to a large mirror suspended between the artist’s legs during performance–self-bondage diagnoses, reclamation of agency, auto-interview introspection. Performance images are overlaid with portions of a poetic text written in the artist’s hand. Here, temporal linearity collapses as terrains of embodied knowledge are traversed through metaphor, idiom, diary remembrance and real-time narration of a medical examination. Latent illness, elusive agency, fugitive knowledge; raw edged silken prints are volatile and highly sensitive to voyeuristic presences where even slight movements cause the material to flow and obfuscate.
Punctured momentarily when performer and viewer catch each other’s gaze through the viewing apparatus, the installation forms a feedback loop of looking that simultaneously threatens disaster and promises relief. A cyclical structure, cotton loops, and cursive script; "Harness for Self-Reflection" ensnares, a lens through which to consider the trap of visibility.
Editorial: Self-Reflection
Magazine: Vogue US
Issue: September 2008
Models: Jessica Stam, Caroline Trentini, Catherine McNeil, Esther Cruz
Photographer: Steven Klein
An example of the beautiful architecture and lighting on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor North Campus
Photographer: Cora Angel, coraangel.com (@coraangel.photos on Instagram)
Cora Angel is a photography student currently obtaining her Bachelor of Science at Northern Kentucky University (expected graduation: December 2020). She was born in the Cincinnati area, where she is now based.
Heavily inspired by the social documentary genre, Cora’s work frequently addresses issues in mental illness and dependency. Many of her recent projects focus on self-reflection and how we are affected by our upbringing. Cora’s photographs illustrate her struggles with identity and her growing relationship with her family and community.
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I like how there are three sets of reflections going on here. And how my face is mostly obscured, because that's pretty much what I try for when taking pictures of myself. Yes, I like to defeat the purpose.
“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
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young, a photojournalist, takes a self portrait through the sunglasses of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Horst as he conducts an assessment of a recreation center in the Mahulla 515 area in the Thawra 1 neighborhood of the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, June 6, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young.
Delicacy of pride through reflection.
I'm still experimenting with colors trying to find a pallete that i like.
I really like this accidental shot.
We've been painting our house for the past 6 weeks (yikes) and I've had few opportunities to fondle my camera the way I'd like to. This afternoon I grabbed an armful of stuff — Vanity Fair — under my arm, was getting ready to rush our the door, and as I checked to see my battery levels this shot snapped from our front hall.
I love that there's multiple layers of reflection here; I'm shooting into a mirror that's reflecting of a picture that's re-reflecting off another picture. Whew! And of course, my grandfather's old, well, grandfather's clock which is a classic beauty though it hasn't ticked in 30 years. The darkened picture on the right is an original watercolor of the house.