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I really hate having my picture taken but decided one evening to see what I could create and this is what I came up with. Since I like to read I took the photo with a book by Dean Koontz, my favorite author.
Cross process experiments with out of date professional slide film (E6 processed C41) scanned from neg at rlatively low res (photo lab)
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This is how I spend what seems like most of my time. We have a large vegetable garden, and even though we have a tough time growing grass in parts of our yard, it grows with great speed in our garden! Drawn from a photo.
this is like one of those illusion things, only certain (very clever?) people can see me in this picture
Picture from my "100 self portraits in 100 days" series that I shot in the summer of 2004. © Árni Torfason
Daily Inspiration: 51/366
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh
Instead of being unhappy with yourself about something, why don't you focus on improving it?
A few weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to improve my photography. So I picked something I thought I needed to practice: composition.
This is one of my favorite flower shots. And I owe it all to self improvement. If I had not pushed myself, I never would have gotten better. It is amazing what you can discover when you challenge yourself.
Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can't expect to improve without doing the work.
Does this mean I am perfect? Of course not. This just is a small reward for working hard at something that isn't always easy. I must still push forward, asking myself what more I have to give, what else I want to say to the world.
Progress, even if it sometimes feels slow, is such a sweet prize. You will find it to be full of color and light and the promise of tomorrow.
Fully edited version of the self portrait uploaded earlier - www.facebook.com/phillippalmerphotography
Self-portrait by Liam, age 17 months. Taken 10/24/2004 with his Jamcam, a total piece of crap digital camera that sometimes takes photos of such horrible quality that they become high quality. See more photos by Liam.
In today's self-portrait, I'm captured in my element, seated before my laptop, engrossed in work. The scene is bathed in warm Tungsten lighting, enhanced by a full CTO filter on my trusty Godox TT350C (set to TTL mode at -2). To ensure the perfect illumination, I combined the power of a Godox AD 200 Pro (also in TTL mode) with a Nikon SB-28 using optical flash at 1/16 power for subtle fill light. While initially experimenting with just the computer's ambient light, my patience wore thin, reaffirming my preference for being 'behind' the camera.
I'm feeling sad today because my little Belgian Bantam rooster, Marcel, was killed in the night by an Australian native animal, a Quoll, which tends to enjoy eating chooks!
Marcel was a very good companion in the garden, with his little hen, and always pottered around near me when I was outside!
So this is my tristesse en(?) photo, a portrait for today.
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All photographers do it. It's 2 in the morning. Don't feel like sleeping. What do you do? A self portrait. This time without the usual props: kitties, puppies, firearms, masks..etc