Up Front : Self Portrait Challenge, Week 1

Its that time again! SPC Self Portrait Challenge has started a new theme for the month of June, Environment. The goal is to capture yourself in the environment around you.

Many of you may recognize this bush that is actually in my neighbors yard. I LOVE shooting in front of it because it blossoms ALL year! So it always looks like summer.
On my way out today, I took a quick snap shot with me and the bush! I think it turned out well! ;)

Its VERY rare that I will look straight into the camera, so this is a rare glance of me from the front! So I titled this "Up front" because, not only is this my front yard, but also the front of me!

For more info on the SPC Challenge, click here.

Enjoy!
--Nikki

Self Portrait Challange: Street Week 2

I know I'm really behind this week, but I have been super busy! So I am trying to catch up! This was today's Self Portrait Challenge in the theme of Street! I actually had another idea, but decided that I would try something out of the ordinary. We rarely ever look at the actual street in pictures, its just in them. So I thought I would focus on this poor torn up street. Its actually right in front of my house! This is the end of my driveway that the city ripped up a few months ago.
Thanks for letting me share!
Nikki

Self Portrait Challenge- Last Month

Well, I know these are a little late, but I had some fun doing some self portrait challanges about "The Body" from April, but never shared them on my other blog, so I thought, I might just share them here! I hope you can find the beauty in the places I dont like about myself! I have looked over these pictures many times and have decided, I guess Im not so bad afterall, no makeup and everything! lol

--Nikki

Self Portrait Challenge: May week 1

Time for May's Self Portrait Challenge. This is my first time to do this sort of work, I'm not very easy about being in front of the camera! So this is forcing me to be open and vulnerable!

The challenge for May - is street photography - with YOU in it.

Capture yourself somehow, somewhere on the street.

With or without others around or others in the photo frame.

You could ask someone else to press the shutter for you

or carry around your tripod - whatever you do it has to

have a ’street photography’ vibe to it.

What is that you ask - well Amy Stein says that

good street photography should be voyeuristic,

immediate, and uncomfortably intimate.

It is also often thought to need to be ironic

and distanced from its subject matter,

concentrating on a single human moment,

caught at a decisive or poignant moment.
Street photography usually utilises landscape format

wide angle lense - to allow more action in the picture,

to capture more than one main story.

It is a type of documentary photography

but it is in public places and captures an

immediacy and frankness that is thought to be very human.

So taking that all into consideration, my view was a girl, searching for a dream while she wonders down the road. She stops to take a breath of fresh air and contemplate her life.

I hope you enjoy it! :)

--Nikki