What an amazing month february was - thank you everyone for participating so honestly in this challenge. I am really looking forward to march - you should have started taking photos already - can’t wait.
And in other news - look out for news on new spt site opening - sometime in the next week or 2
My mother collects inspirational pictures, things she just finds beautiful. She loves Victoria magazine and has a collection of pages pulled from two decades of the magazine, all sheet-protected in a white binder. I have learned to appreciate “feasting with the eyes” because of this.
Reading your blogs are the same for me.
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Because I missed last week, I’m posting my favorites from last week as well as from this week today.
LAST WEEK:
Composition/Best Photo:
HulaSeventy, snapping her maternity underwear. I love the angles.
Creative Interpretation:
Oh, don’t we all know the feeling. Baby and booze, brought to you by Elizaboothy.
Best Story:
An innocuous picture with a very real story by 62cherry. Worth a peek and a cry.
Hottest Picture:
Shutup. It’s Zack and Kelly, with obsessive fan IreneNam.
sooo jealous.
THIS WEEK
Composition/ Best Picture:
Again, I’m a sucker for angles. I feel like I’m falling backwards. From HappyThings.
Creative Interpretation:
LRStech gives us “nothing”, but then lists her faults. Her deficiencies are her ugly bits.
Best Story:
I had to include this story because it made me so uncomfortable, in a Timothy Treadwell kind of way. Thanks to the Golden God, DawsonJ.
Hottest Picture:
Oh, to speak french and to understand why I like this one! From Fredemickadel.
This was a challenging SPT for me. So, I admire each of your portraits…thanks everyone!
Loved Art Junk. all of you.
Wild Pink’s honesty is great. Thanks.
Artsy Mama’s confession made me chuckle.
Kiki…I’m with ya…although I do NOT agree with you…you are gorgeous!
I really enjoyed Sewn With Gold Threads. The contradiction got me! love it!
This evening after I spent a long day teaching and still struggling with neck and muscle pain I rolled through all of your pictures, and I began to think how funny it is how easy it is for us all to pick ourselves apart. How easily we can tear ourselves apart, how we know all about our hidden insecurities, or “ugly” parts, parts that many times are unseen or unnoticed my the general public. How we all look SO DIFFERENT and then I wonder what really makes anyone of us more beautiful then another, because if beauty is bones and skin stretched over them like in the magazines in books stores then we all have some issues.
The scares of love, of birth, or life
Interesting story, about challenged faced.
How we change.
Hidden pain, hidden struggle the unseen of “all of me”
Here see an uncovering, showing the natural aging of live, showing our “gray” showing our underbellies, delicate and important.
Our battles from childhood to adult, what does it really matter how we look?
Those things we only know about ourselves
I made a horrible mistake and lost the link to this photo that seems to be my trend for one of picks. This photo of a beautiful fragile teen, here she speaks of physical and psychological abuse by a man she thought loved her. The broken safety of love the fragileness of teen hood, broken, all of me –The UNSEEN
My OWNER has been found thanks to our readers!
This is beautiful! Her face “unmasked” flawless, natural raw beauty
I love this for the natural state of relaxation it created, not exposing more then simple natural sleep fading from her face.
You people were busy making out on Tuesday instead of taking pictures, huh?
Yeah, I had a heck of a time finding SPTs. But the ones I did find were worth all the trouble.
Best Picture:
Chez Meb. I love that, upon first glance, it looks like the toe’s a victim of a close-up. Nope, her toe is really just that giant.
Creative Interpretation:
And Down With Tin Ham. Seriously, great vulnerability. Doesn’t exactly fit in with the “Creative Interpretation” theme, but remember our conversation about me being the boss? That’s right.
Great Story:
TWO GREAT STORIES!
Straight off the Discovery Health Channel. Thanks, Tricotta.
And then this…
Great history of a smile. Makes me want to punch her third grade teacher in the ovaries.
Hottest Picture:
I tend to avoid the photoshopped stuff, but this is spectacular. Thanks, bugheart.
do you see a pattern here? I love feet and hands; the good the bad and the ugly! I think that its interesting how many people don’t like their feet and hands! Thus their appearance in so many people’s “All of Me”
I think it was especially hard to talk about ALL of ME on Valentine’s day…the day where everything is suposed to be pink hearts and candy dreams! Bravo to you all!
Stop everything you’re doing. Go to a quiet place, where no one can see you cry.
This is new SPT contributor, Sarah Stone. I happen to know her (she and my husband dated when they were fifteen). But I never knew this story.
We’ve hung out maybe three times, and I’ve noticed the limp.
I should have noticed her heart.
Her Self Portrait is here, but the whole story is here.
This is my favorite for all categories today.
Stop everything you’re doing. Go to a quiet place, where no one can see you cry.
This is new SPT contributor, Sarah Stone. I happen to know her (she and my husband dated when they were fifteen). But I never knew this story.
We’ve hung out maybe three times, and I’ve noticed the limp.
I should have noticed her heart.
Her Self Portrait is here, but the whole story is here.
This is my favorite for all categories today.
wow, you got real this week. I found myself swimming in fantastic (and honest) images at 3 am. wish I could post them all, really I do. so many great words too. I applaud your bravery, folks. we’re off and running.
“all of me” embrace your mistakes, love the ugly bits.
I want this to be a challenging month - we have had it easy over christmas and the holidays but now it is time to look deep inside ourselves and embrace and face our whole selves. I don’t want to see any perfect images, any pretty studio like images, no perfect hair or makeup, get rid of the masks you use to face the world.
I was inspired for this challenge by reading a recent Keri Smith post.
“For my whole life I have had difficulty looking at photos of myself. It was as if that person could never be enough for me, I did not want to see any of my flaws (or the things I percieved as imperfect).”
“How to love that image flaws and all. Yeah it looks like I have a double chin and a huge nose, and I don’t know why I ever thought that skirt looked good on me. fuck it. that is all of me. Yes I can love me when the situation is favourable and flattering, and everything is just so, but can I love me when things are messy?” Keri Smith from Wish jar journal
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