I actually take a self-portrait every day for a pool on Flickr. It is having a strange effect on me. Sometimes I love the way I look, sometimes I hate the way I look and sometimes I'm indifferent. Then I tag all the photos. Then I go and look at the pool to see who else has the same tag. One day I looked up all the self-portraits tagged 'juggling.' Today I did 'knitting'. A lot more knitting photos than juggling photos.

 

I feel like I am my own lab rat in this crazy experiment. It is so commonplace to see people snapping photos these days that I don't even get strange looks anymore. I used to wonder if people thought, "Look at that vain woman over there, taking photos of herself." So on my Flickr stream at the top of this post you will probably see one of my self-portraits go by. I always take one photo doing 'any old thing' and then hopefully another more artistic photo. The first one is a back-up in case I never have time or think to take anything better, or if the whole lot of them come out all sucky.

 

I've been doing this for 2 months now. I wonder if I will run out of ideas for the next self-portrait, and if so, when. One thing is clear; I'm home way too much. I prefer taking photos while adventuring around.