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Self Portrait: ‘Inside the Frame’

I am back with the Self Portrait Saturday challenge! This is where any time during the week you take a photo of yourself with any camera that you own and share it with us on Saturday. My self portrait this week is entitled ‘Inside the Frame’. No underlining conceptual themes or trick photography involved in this shot. I was getting ready to go to my expat friend’s house for tea and had a few minutes to play around with my camera and the window light while waiting on my sons to get their shoes on. So here I am in my H&M lacy peach dress, my hair back in a chignon, and wearing my brown frames. You normally do not see me wearing my glasses in photographs. I used to be a girl that loved living life through her variety of colour contacts. However I need a new contacts and have a deep love for my oversized prescription sunglasses.

I do not mind being photographed in my glasses and to be fair love the look of me in my frames. However I will be honest with you. I am that girl that quickly grabs the frames off her face and hides them behind her back in a photo op. Eyes are the windows to the soul and sometimes I just want to see that without the distraction of glasses. It is interesting how much different someone can look with our without glasses on and so in lieu of keeping my blog grounded in authenticity here is my self portrait with me wearing my glasses inside the frame.

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I try to do one every week and post on a Saturday.

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Get out those tripods, remote controls, and set your self timer!

It must be a ‘self portrait’ and does not need to be an image you took this Saturday. Feel free to link up to past Self Portrait posts in your blog. This link up will be every Saturday so feel free to use that as your motivation to learn more about your camera, hone in on your photography skills, try out new post processing techniques, and let your creative spirit come alive. Join the Self Portrait Saturday challenge!

Self Portrait: ‘North Wind’

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There is a line taken from the film adaptation of Chocolat

that as a Third Culture Kid it truly speaks to my nomadic nature.

“But still the clever north wind was not satisfied.

It spoke…of towns yet to be visited, friends in need

yet to be discovered, battles yet to be fought”

I am a free spirit that feels blown to new places.

When you have yet to ever live in one place for longer than a three years,

you wonder if you can ever truly settle down.

Since I have only been in my current location since Christmas,

we will just have to wait and see.

Where do you think I be in two and a half years from now?

Like this self portrait? This was a self portrait I was commissioned to do for Girl Gone International magazine. To see the other self portraits I did for the magazine, check out issue two which is out now.

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DO YOU LOVE SELF PORTRAITS?

I try to do one every week and post on a Saturday.

If you would like to link up with me, add this button to your blog. I would love to see your photography!

Self Portrait: ‘From the Wings’

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Another weekend has begun and with it another Self Portrait Saturday. For today’s Self Portrait I share with you the self portrait entitled ‘From the Wings’. Often times it is easy to feel like I am waiting for something else or something new to begin. Being a Third Culture Kid and living in a highly nomadic world, I am use to a cycle of things ending and new things constantly on the horizon. I believe as a mum too it is easy to feel a bit lost in the shadows taking care of everyone else. It can also be a place of reflection where we seek answers from someone greater and ask for direction towards the brighter future. I love playing with different lighting situations and took this portrait looking out the window of our front door.

DO YOU LOVE SELF PORTRAITS?

I try to do one every week and post on a Saturday.

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Self Portrait: ‘Scarred I’

Self Portrait: ‘Grounded’

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When you have always moved ever few months or couple of years, you live a life where people are always coming and going. If you are lucky the better ones come back through your life again. In this nomadic world you are constantly the ‘new girl’, introducing yourself all over again, and answering the dreaded question from where you come. From growing up as a third culture kid as a military child overseas it prepared me for the role of a military wife living the island life in the Pacific. Through out it all I have felt like a gypsy being blown by the wind. Being called to far off places and locations I have never been. While yearning for all the places, all the countries, and all the cultures I have taken as my own. It became the fire that fueled our path to move overseas as expats. Somehow on this new path I have reached the realisation that I finally have an anchor. A person who can be my strength when I feel weak. My comfort when I feel lost in the unknown. My support when I lack the confidence. My guard to block out the negative and censor the unwanted cruel words of others. When I can get lost in my head of self doubt and he brings me back and keeps me grounded. When he is with me I do not need to worry about what has been or what could be for we live in the present. Which means so much when you are a girl with many dreams in both the day and the night. Yet he keeps me close. Grounded in reality.

DO YOU LOVE SELF PORTRAITS?

I try to do one every week and post on a Saturday.

If you would like to link up with me, add this button to your blog. I would love to see your photography!

*Image original to A Compass Rose blog by Bonnie Rose Photography

Self Portrait: ‘From the Ashes’

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For those of you that will remember last year I did a Self Portrait Challenge to take one self portrait every week. It was a lot of fun and was something I was able to do while traveling through Europe as well. Being inspired by a few self portraits I was commissioned to do recently, I have decided to restart this again invite you all to be involved! I have created a link up which will start every Saturday and end every Friday night. You can link up to old or new self portraits as long as they are a self portrait you took of yourself. So set your self timers and get your tripods ready and I look forward to seeing your creative spirit come alive on the weekends. The self portrait ‘From the Ashes’ was one of the test shots on one of the self portrait concepts I was working on last week. I really liked this one and decided I would save it for this challenge. While I usually would have gone with the black eye shadow, I used actual charred wood from our back garden. A bit of inspiration taking from my sons who showed up in the house with faces covered in black one day. I took this one right next to our dining room window to take use of the natural light. I think the reason I like it so much is it reminds me of the Afgan girl photographed for the cover of National Geographic. Maybe it is because we both have hazel eyes. If you have not heard about Sharbat Gula‘s story, I recommend that you check it out.

DO YOU LOVE SELF PORTRAITS?

I try to do one every week and post on a Saturday.

If you would like to link up with me, add this button to your blog. I would love to see your photography!

*Image original to A Compass Rose blog by Bonnie Rose Photography