THE BLATHERING BROAD: self-portrait

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focus on the self

Lately, I haven't been picking my camera up too much. I am focused on other things, like yoga, hula hooping, working, and just trying to keep my sanity. I don't really have much time for anything else. It makes me sad because I love photography and taking pictures so I've declared 2016 the year that I will focus again on the camera, focus on me. So in that, I will be working on self-portraits more this year. I've been having fun experimenting with setting, lighting. I can't wait to see where this takes me.

big changes

It is with great pleasure that I announce that I'm starting a new job on Monday. Check it -- things have been stressful at my current workplace. I won't delve into details because that's not how I roll. It's also extremely unprofessional. I had outgrown my work. I was no longer challenged. I'm excited to start something new. I'm also excited to wear "normal" clothes, as opposed to my all black uniform. A lot of things are changing. It's a little bit frightening, but exciting. I'm feeling all sorts of emotions these days, especially since I only have two days of work left. I guess I'll have a no-makeup policy from now on since Joe and Herb made me cry today. Ack. Oh, well. Here's to new beginnings!

all in a day's work

I know I previously promised not to disappear again, but I failed. It's been over a month since that promise, and I have stayed uninspired and unmotivated. I don't really know what finally pushed me. I charged my battery, snapped a few things throughout the day, and I feel as though I have given my creative muscles some much needed stretching. I'm trying, truly trying. I'll be scrambling to catch up with my 365. Fingers crossed that I can actually do this.

one hundred eighty-two through one hundred eighty-four

chevrons and sunlight

one hundred thirty-seven through one hundred thirty-nine

tethered capture

seventy-eight through eighty

I've learned that tethered capture makes self-portraiture a lot easier. I got a longer USB cord in order to successfully experiment and I must say, I think I really enjoy shooting this way. It's something new for me to play around with and I look forward to posting more experiments.

sws: glimpses of me

Matt and I agreed what we were getting each other for Valentine's day, which was apparel from our favorite local coffee shop, as well as a book the other person really wanted. He got Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and I got Shooting With Soul. Although we bought and gave our books at the end of January, I didn't want to start to do any exercises until after Valentine's day. Day of, I decided to do the first exercise of the book: Glimpses of you. I read through suggestions and tried them, sure, but I also went beyond that and tried my own "glimpses of me" shots and I really like that the book is basically a jumping off point for me. It's great, considering I'm doing 365 project again this year so my ideas can get a little bit old. I can't wait to explore more of this book and its exercises here. Without further ado, here are a few more:

fifty nine through sixty one

black and white study

Tired of my yammering yet? I've decided to process my photos in black and white for the rest of the month of September. I have been playing with Stephanie's photo shoot pictures in black and white, as well as obviously the one in my last post, so from this day forward until October 1st, all photos will be in black and white. It'll change how I shoot, for sure. I'm drawn to colors so with the lack of color, it'll be tricky. I'm experimenting, also, with different poses in my self-portraits. I'm almost one hundred photographs away from completing this 365 and I'm so happy to try new things so it's not just the same-old, same-old.

two hundred fifty seven/365

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two hundred fifty nine/365

two hundred sixty/365

two hundred sixty one/365

two hundred five.

I haven't posted here in just a little bit over a week. First week of August down and this is the first time I've brought the old gal out. I've been busy planning a shoot and shooting an event. Photos will of course get posted here, possibly as soon as tomorrow night. Magic hour shoot tomorrow with a model friend. I. Can't. Wait.