Congrats to everyone who participated in the article in Artful Blogging - looks like a great issue - with lots of SPC favourites included as well as those whose pics were featured in the article. Participants whose images were featured in the mag include Jeremy Stockwell, Navylane , the momster, pumkin little, nosumo, Nicole from Sometimes everything girl and intrepid flame. Great pics guys keep up the outstanding work…
So officially this is week five of the July challenge - being a tuesday and all - but so many of you are doing August already that I go totally inspired to do a mixed post.
Pumpkin little I just love this image - I can almost feel the mud between my toes - ooh squishy… Definitely an earth image.
congrats also to Ornamental with her own article in the mag. This image is for Patterns and is all about memory and family history.
Thank you to everyone who responded to the call for more people to contribute. We had a great response and so will be introducing some new and familiar faces over the coming weeks.
Self portrait with pattern - i really think that you can have some fun with theme idea. While on the surface it might seem quite simple - Pattern has a lot of meaning to a persons life. Family history, personal history and cultural history all can be mined to work within this theme.
I want people to really try to be personal with this - use patterns to accentuate your self, to bring added meaning to the image, to tell a story or point to your history.
Some examples - check out the links for the some cool self portraits with pattern.
if you are interesting in being a contributor to self portrait challenge - either once a month or more often please email me (see contact page) for more information. You need to be a regular self portrait participant and enjoy checking out all the contributions - knowledge of wordpress an advantage.
thanks
Kathreen
PS… aha - I was testing you to see if you could figure out where the email contact is … see those funny little blue and grey buttons on the left that follow you down the page - the email is the middle one…
Also when you send in an email please send in a link to your website with details of your contributions.
The theme for this month is about the earth and your connection with it. More specifically the element that you most connect with.
Water - Air - Earth - Fire
Feel free to take this completely literally, or you might want to play around with metaphor. Trick photography and photoshop trickery are allowed - even encouraged if you can do it well.
Some people are water people - use the water in your image, swimming, drinking, bathing, fishing, canoeing - try your hand at underwater photography.
If you are more connected with the air - you might love to fly - hot air ballooning or have your pilots licence, you might be into climbing tall mountains and meditating in the clouds - try some aerial photography from high places.
Earth - if you are connected with the earth - you love the outdoors, you hike, camp, climb, or study rocks and bones. Try taking photos of yourself embedded in the earth, surrounded by rocks, as one with the physical elements.
Fire - are you someone who enjoys the warmth of an open fire, can’t get enough of fireworks, love to go camping for the opportunity of an open fire - try some photography with flickering flames.
A piece of my heart beats the cool waters, the fiery sun dance, the air as fresh as leaves that dance on trees. I spent summers yelling at the sky in rage; singing softly on the shore; writing madly my face pressed into the sand; running up and down the shoreline; stripping down in the heat of the night and running naked into cool waters amongst the laughter of joy; sketching on paper’s burnt end as my skin turned brown in the breeze and crying the tears of sorrow that lifted me towards the heartbeat of warm waters holding me in a loving caress.
This is the first time I have climbed a mountain to the top! For the first part I had no problem at all, it was just like when I lived on Eagle Mountain and I kept a great pace, my husband was very impressed and then he mentioned, we’re almost there.
The past year has been rough, it feels like I’ve survived by the skin of my teeth. Whether you just started reading this blog or you’ve lived every second by my side - you’ve got to agree there was room for improvement.
I’ve been reading several wonderful blogs these days (most are listed in my favorite things column, right over there ——->) and discovered something called The Self Portrait Project. It basically sounded like torture to me: once a month, a theme is posted, each week during the month, you take your photo interpreting that theme and post it for everyone to see. It’s taken me three months to work up the nerve to do this… but here I am. [welcome to our community - ed]
