Who am I?

Yesterday my Dad said it seemed like I'd like to look at pictures of me. I didn't quite understand and was a little confused. After I asked him he explained: Well, you take a lot of self portraits.
I couldn't help but laugh. Just to make this clear: I'm not taking self portraits so I can look at them later and think "Oh, I'm so pretty!". You know the pictures of teenagers where they're standing in the bathroom in front of the mirror and take a lot of photos of themselves? I don't do that. I don't know if we have something in common, those teenagers and me. I guess something we do have in common is that we want to know "Who am I?"
A little difference is that they seem to focus on how they look while I focus on how I am. What are the distinctive things that make me "me"? How do I want people to see me? How do I feel about certain things?
What expression, posture, clothing, background, colors, texture, and style best express the real me?

Well, but the mainly reason I take self portraits: you have model who is always available and works for free ;) All my friends are living all over the place in Franconia and I have to take the train everywhere so I don't see them every day. This will hopefully change when I go back to school.

There are some great photographers out there who are doing a lot of self portraits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurazalenga/ (She's just like one of the most amazing photographers ever.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiie/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaaa/sets/72157621581971199/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikolinelr/page4/

So, done.

week 33 - the world without books is just "eeh"

I hate it when I get a lot of Likes on Facebook for a photo and nobody explains me why. Why is my picture good? And can somebody please tell me what I could do better??

week 23 - skeptical

Skeptical? Indifferent? Pensive? Shy?

week 16 - the colors of fall

I got up at six thirty this morning (and it's Sunday!) because I wanted to take some pictures of the morning fog. Only there was no fog. Oh well. The colors of fall look just as nice :)
I decided that only trees would be too boring so I placed my bike in the picture and because there weren't any other people (of course! It was seven in the morning in the the middle of nowhere!) I shot another self portrait.
























And yesterday we went feeding some ducks and suddenly a goose appeard and decided no one would notice that she wasn't a duck and she just swam in the middle of them, wich looked kinda funny ;)











This is from yesterday as well.
I shot it while driving in the car because I didn't get a chance to stop somewhere... very blurred and out of focus but maybe it works in this case.

week 9 - feelings

Sorry I'm late again.

Wasn't feeling very good those days(again?! I know.) so I didn't take many pics. I wanted to express my feelings somehow in a photograph and I didn't know how. I also didn't know why. Why should somebody take a picture of themselves showing how bad they're feeling? I don't know. I think when you're photographing something the picture always shows something about yourself. They show whether you're an optimistic, pessimistic or realistic person, they show your character, they show how you feel about certain things. Well, this is how I feel about the world right now.


My sister used this for her class.


I've seen more pictures that are similar to mine, like this one:

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikolinelr/4295404655/in/photostream
Of course, it's lot better that mine. (I didn't wanna leave the house those days so I had to take the photo inside.) At least there are more people who are expressing their thoughts by taking self portraits, so please don't judge me. I wasn't sure about posting this pic and I'll probably delete it in a couple of days anyway.

And here you're getting your not so depressing pic. It's actually pretty funny.