Self Portraits

The assignment for this week was to take 5 self portraits. I hated this assignment. I didn't give myself enough time or think it through enough after seeing everyone else's. I ended up in Knoxville because the rain from the hurricane was settling in for a 5 day stay here and the sun was shining in Knoxville. I had a lot of pictures to take with my large format camera that can't get wet so Elijah and I just decided to let me go on up and spend a day taking pictures.
Usually in class I am fairly confident about my pictures, but I wasn't Monday. These are okay, but you should have seen some of the others!! My idea on the first set was to do a "reflections" type thing because Avery looks so much like me, so kind of looking into a mirror (empty frame) and seeing myself in her sort of thing. This is what we ran into most of the time, Avery's personality overriding the project:

She kept crossing her eyes!! It was really frustrating, but she found it hilarious. The good serious ones didn't turn out completely focused, so we had to use the one where she was coming through the frame towards me, so this is the one I turned in:

The one I liked the most was of me sitting in front of the old church. I thought it was the best one, just because of the strong memories associated with it and all. But when I printed it I was slightly out of focus and could not use it. I was pretty disappointed because I had to turn in another one I didn't like nearly as much. I won't even post it because I don't like it.
The last one I'll post is just an extreme close up of my eyes. When the class critiqued it they said that it was the "mom death look" perfected. That wasn't what I was going for, but good thing to know that I have it down so well! It's just funny that since they know I have kids that is what they saw in it.

Anyway, there they are. I may try to reshoot this assignment, but I doubt it . It was so tough the first time I don't think I want to deal with it again. I get to redo 2 assignments, so I am going to use this next week off (Labor Day) to really take a lot of pictures, as long as the sun comes out, anyway!!