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365 self portraits. Can I actually do it? Inspired by many others, I decided to give my creativity a kick in the pants with a Daily Photo project. With life happening too fast, quite often I lose the spark that drives me to pick up the camera. Hopefully I can maintain not only this project, but the ability to develop more as a photographer. Ideally, the majority of these will be self-portraits to help me get over my image complex and to document the most important, memorable moments of each day.

My rules:
1. At least part of myself in each shot. Every 24 hours.
2. EXIF data pulls rank. I travel and can't always upload on a timely matter, but the timestamp is as the timestamp does...
3. Try to document the dominant activity/event of the day. This is a journal-type project for me, too.
4. Having help is OK. While I always set up the shot myself, occasionally the location requires having someone else hit the shutter for me.
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schmoo > August 10, 2008

The weekend was one of many nice ones spent with my parents at their main HQ. My parents have come a long way, in many ways, and I'm always happy to go spend time with them wherever they are. There's so much that I appreciate now because I am older.

It was humid that day even after a spell of rain. I caught this reflection of the clouds in a puddle on the driveway, and of course Zach had to dive in because he and I are virtually inseparable.
schmoo > July 22, 2008

Backdating a little, I was surprised to find this shot on my point-and-shoot from the end of July. It was like Christmas, unearthing a long-lost treasure. Only now do I recall the moist heat of the night, walking into the scotch bar looking for a release at the end of a stressful day. I wanted to just talk and relax and not worry for a spell. 

I barely remember walking to the end of the pier afterwards, but as I scrolled through the photos from that night I see that this was why. Alicia, the proprietor, is not stingy with her wares.
schmoo > August 9, 2008

Just a hypocritical reminder to myself to take 15 minutes each morning and evening to ease the stressbomb (tm) that I am. Who am I kidding? I haven't meditated regularly for weeks now... :(

I've been doing a lot of sitting cross-legged lately, even though it's not very becoming. 

I still feel like I have bugs crawling on me from this 2-shot "shoot" in the woods. Not much of an wilderness/camping kind of person, me. But asbestos and bat poop? Any day!
schmoo > August 6, 2008
 
I am so glad that I got the email from Derin that he was in the state/town/country this week. It's always a surprise to me that after a 14+ flight he always lets me know only the day that he's actually present, but I don't mind. I'm never so socially booked that I can't stop to see an old friend for dinner one day this week, particularly when they're camped the next town over.

It was a fabulous surprise that Ixia was so good. The place has been there forever and I've never remembered to try it. My shot today is something like the three musketeers, but hey that's what we were. And we had something to celebrate.

I have few people in my life who stick around for as long as Paula and Derin have. Longer than I've been sane, longer than I could ever ask them to. In fact, I have less than one hand's worth of fingers of people who I am both unrelated to and who fit this bill. In a way it is a little sad. The average friendspan is 2 years, whether or not I want it to be. I've always thought about this, over and over and over and it never changes. Misunderstandings notwithstanding, something inevitably happens to those I care about. When I lie awake at night sometimes I think about this and what it is in me that causes me to skip across people the way someone hops from rock to rock. Maybe it's even considered normal? I don't know, but it's frightening.

I am who I am and not one whit more. 

Less. 

Whatever!
schmoo > August 3, 2008

A very full day. Brain unplugged. Everything pushed aside. The weather was beautiful although I opted to stay asleep until after 9 instead of going for a much-needed morning ride.

The clarity of the sky is amazing here on a rare day like today when the humidity is low. My car is also squeaky clean and I'm having fun playing with this lens. 

I love the people in my life because they bring so many different, interesting things into my own. But while I am almost never "alone" these days, especially when I work, I have been feeling very isolated.

It's a day of reflection, with reflections.
schmoo > August 2, 2008

Today is Tired Day (tm). But I got a new lens and so far it's great. I do love the bokeh on this, and the speed. 

Trying that blueish processing that I see from portrait photogs. Not sure if it's working for me but I gotta run so it'll do....
schmoo > August 1, 2008

Today I had less than 6 hours notice on a friend flying into town.

This is more or less how things work with Paula. We have a long history of great occasions, scandalous social gatherings and yet I cannot remember a single incident of us being together when the sun was in the sky. This is, to me, a sure sign of good times.

We knew each other a long time ago, probably the most tumultuous and impressionable years of our lives, but those months were cumulatively quite short. All the same, Paula is a force in my life that has always come and gone, and no doubt I have been the same in hers. But every time we do catch up it's like picking up exactly where we left off. Months, years, or days, it never makes a difference when we talk again.

The last time I saw Paula she was floating off into the night in that Paula-ish way, melting into the swirling river of light and color of bright Shibuya. We had just completed an exhausting but excruciatingly entertaining evening at the Pink Cow, and a round of peculiar appetizers and drinks (and five! unordered! glasses! of green tea) at a 3rd floor izakaya. Under the pouring rain and those cheap clear Japanese umbrellas we said our goodbyes. We followed Tatsuji into the subway as Paula drifted peacefully into the neverending crowd. If the city never sleeps, Tokyo is the Insomniac and she was always ready for the next lesson.

It had been 6 years since I'd seen Paula but I was certain we'd meet again. However, looking back on that night in Tokyo I was a little uncertain as to where things stood. People change, friendships change, and although we always joke about how none of that really matters, you can never quite be sure. 30 might be the new 20 but maybe they just say that to make up for all the late nights, bad boyfriends, and scene stress that you actually miss with a teeny little part of your heart. Are they right? Am I right?

I think they're right.

Anyway it's truly wonderful catching up with a friend who was just a student like you when you met, but now uses the words "submarine," "Russian," and "nuclear warhead" to describe her line of work.
schmoo > July 31, 2008
A friend passed this on to me today:

"Work hard, believe in yourself, enable your dreams, seek out creative people. Hang on. Tenaciously. Always be a force for good. "

I thought pretty hard about that and how I try to live my life.
schmoo > July 29, 2008

This evening was spent running errands in Annapolis and getting a bite at Joss's Cafe. It was lovely: classic pink haze and golden sunset, exactly what I envision when I think of a Maryland summer. It's very beautiful if you can stand the heat and humidity.

I always whip the camera out whenever I get a chance, but this time I thought the reflection in the LCD was more interesting than anything I was shooting through the thing.
schmoo > July 26, 2008

Saturday evening at the movies. This is a record - so far this year I've actually physically been inside a movie theater three times. This is more than I have gone in the last 5 years, total.

Not quite as rare is the sight of the three of us friends hanging out. Good times, good times. And I got a huge kick out of (1) Matt pimpin' us on each arm but (2) the fact that on a whim I took out my camera, braced it on his knee and by sheer luck got the perfect SP of the day in the first and only shot.
schmoo > July 24, 2008

Mmppht.

That kind of day.
schmoo > July 23, 2008

After a two  year hiatus (maybe more) I have started going back to Xpose. I hate the gym, hate a regular routine of working out because it gets so boring, but stripperobics is so much more interesting than any other gym.

I think the website is amusing in that they claim to revive "the lost art of exotic dance." The phrase conjures up images of Aztec warriors in terrifying masks gyrating around.... pyramids?

I'm far from good and have never been graceful. But it's fun, so much fun and I love seeing women of all shapes, ages, and sizes getting down and dirty with their chairs. Walking in the front door, the instructors are just ordinary people. But once they are on stage they are transformed into goddesses, flexible divas full of catlike grace and slinky confidence. 

Not that I have hopes of ever looking that good, but it is inspiring and as I said, fun.
schmoo > July 21, 2008

Whether or not this gunk does anything useful I love this mud mask by Lush. It's soothing and smells nice and is made with fresh blueberries and Irish moss. I really do feel/smell like a forest dryad when I schmear it on my mug.

... even if I look like the creature from the black lagoon while I do. :D
schmoo > July 19, 2008

I've always had difficulty shooting in public. Not performance anxiety, but law enforcement always tries to give me trouble. I think I have a pretty innocent face so this always surprises me, particularly because I get the most harassment when I'm trying to shoot major monuments like the skyline from Federal Hill, the waterfront at Canton, or the Smithsonian Institute in DC.

Somehow we managed to find a little peace in Mt. Vernon. It was a warm and humid night, but it was nice to get out and feel the weight of my camera again.
schmoo > July 18, 2008

Testing a new (to me) product, I got a custom SkinIt for my iPod. I like the idea of being able to customize my gear with my photos, even though the process of choosing makes me really hate my photography and everything I shoot! On a whim I picked two photos from Scotland, even though it really makes no sense to stick landscapes on an iPod.

Here are my product shots to show my coworkers. I missed a little on the back piece as you can tell, but after 10 tries I just couldn't be buggered anymore.

You can see the front here.
August 10, 2008

The weekend was one of many nice ones spent with my parents at their main HQ. My parents have come a long way, in many ways, and I'm always happy to go spend time with them wherever they are. There's so much that I appreciate now because I am older.

It was humid that day even after a spell of rain. I caught this reflection of the clouds in a puddle on the driveway, and of course Zach had to dive in because he and I are virtually inseparable.
schmoo > August 10, 2008

The weekend was one of many nice ones spent with my parents at their main HQ. My parents have come a long way, in many ways, and I'm always happy to go spend time with them wherever they are. There's so much that I appreciate now because I am older.

It was humid that day even after a spell of rain. I caught this reflection of the clouds in a puddle on the driveway, and of course Zach had to dive in because he and I are virtually inseparable.
August 10, 2008

The weekend was one of many nice ones spent with my parents at their main HQ. My parents have come a long way, in many ways, and I'm always happy to go spend time with them wherever they are. There's so much that I appreciate now because I am older.

It was humid that day even after a spell of rain. I caught this reflection of the clouds in a puddle on the driveway, and of course Zach had to dive in because he and I are virtually inseparable.
Camera: Canon (Canon Powershot Sd800 Is) |
more details: exif |
original size: 3072px x 2304px |
Current: 600px x 450px |
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