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Self-Portrait Challenge from Kelly Rae Roberts

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Mixed media artist extraordinaire Kelly Rae Roberts crosses over to photography today with this delightful self-portrait challenge. Let’s give her a warm Shutter Sisters welcome…

I love the idea of capturing images of ourselves in the company of the earth. Today’s challenge is simple: go outside. Hold your camera down a bit and capture a shot of yourself with the sky as your backdrop. Then point your camera down and capture your feet on the ground. Put the images together to create a lovely diptych that reveals a small, telling moment in your day.

I love what these kinds of images say about where we are. about our physical surroundings, the season, and even about what we’re wearing. And it’s so fun to capture our shoes, the earth, and the motion of a day lived well. I so hope you will join me…cloudy skies and all.

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  4. Quite the challenge considering it is 25 degrees out. I took the snow from yesterday for my feet portrait, and the bare trees for the head shot, while Kelly looks quite lovely from the camera angle she shot, I find that being over 50 that angle is not very attractive, hence my shot.

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  11. I’ll come back and post my challenge results. It’s minus 22 here at this very moment so I need to get bundled up and head outside … I’ll be back and post a link to my photos! Brrr.

  34. well I did it, though I”m just realizing I am a day late! I just found you;) will try to be on the date the next time!

  39. This is awesome…. too bad I didn’t see it til now and it’s 8:03pm it’s dark outside, will try tomorrow if it is not too late. I like it.