"Laying It All Out There"
How do the months pass so quickly? Today, being the first Saturday of the month, is self portrait Saturday. The goal of today's prompt was to embrace and photograph our imperfections. As I thought about what to do with this, I realized how much I have grown as a person and a photographer over the past sixteen months of taking self portraits. This time last year I would have been overwhelmed by this prompt. I would have gotten bogged down by the many imperfections that I have and had no clue how to start either photographing them or embracing them.
I have become much more comfortable in my own skin. Instead of looking at every photo of myself and looking for what is wrong, I start with looking for things that I like. I still have many imperfections, but I have learned to look beyond them and I don't worry as much about them. I could definitely do without all the wrinkles here, but they too can be put in perspective. A fellow photographer said that all of our wrinkles are well earned and that each holds a story, a memory or a laugh. When I think about them that way, they don't seem so bad.
So here I am...wrinkles (both me and my shirt) and no make-up. What you see is what you get.
