Critique Welcomed Forum Members: Self Portrait In Reflection

[Gary Ayala]

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Okay Keith ... forget the selfie ... What's the car?

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Maybe it is time to again take selfies. It would be quite interesting to see, at least selfies of the ones started this. Time has fared well with you all I hope.
Says Santa.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

^What Santa says.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

^What Santa says.

Just what he said as he took a selfie.

 

[Bill Brown]

Here are a couple of my self-portraits shot in a stairwell over an 8 year time frame. My Gravatar image, seen with my comments, is from this series. I have a few reflected self portraits but most of the time I go more for the shadow style.

I titled this image "ET's self-portrait"

This one is "Tall Texan"

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Here are a couple of my self-portraits shot in a stairwell over an 8 year time frame. My Gravatar image, seen with my comments, is from this series. I have a few reflected self portraits but most of the time I go more for the shadow style.

I titled this image "ET's self-portrait"
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This one is "Tall Texan"
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Wonderful shots!

 

[Keith Drysdale]

Okay Keith ... forget the selfie ... What's the car?

A favourite car I owned - a Rover 75 2.0 diesel.

 

[Bill Brown]

Wonderful shots!

Thanks Gianluca. These were all shot in color on Portra 160 but in my mind I saw them in b&w. Very little post. I see these as proof I was there.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Another Old Selfie from an Old Guy.



Los Angeles, California (circa 1970's)

Nikon F w/ Nikkor 50mm - Tri-X

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Three torsos and my head. The picture could be titled ‘The Judgement of Paris’.

 

[Chris Bennett]

Here are a couple of my self-portraits shot in a stairwell over an 8 year time frame. My Gravatar image, seen with my comments, is from this series. I have a few reflected self portraits but most of the time I go more for the shadow style.

I titled this image "ET's self-portrait"
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This one is "Tall Texan"
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These are utterly brilliant. Love 'em!

 

[Gary Ayala]

 

[Gianluca Drago]

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Now, this is strange! What's happening here, Gary?

 

[Bill Brown]

These are utterly brilliant. Love 'em!

Thanks Chris. Over the years and different seasons I never knew when I might be surprised by my cast shadow in some unpredictable location. One of the advantages of returning to a location time and again over a span of time. And to use an expression from childhood "putting on my looking eyes".

 

[Gary Ayala]

Now, this is strange! What's happening here, Gary?

Buongiorno Gianluca. Your wonderful image above triggered my memory of a photo I took 50 years ago, This is a storefront of a religious organization. In their window, the organization installed mannequins depicting various biblical stories. This scene was Cain and Able. I am reflected to the left, hunched over a Hasselblad ... clicking away (with my 1970's LED watch).

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Thank you for the explanations, Gary. That image is so creepy, but surely an interesting capture!

 

[Gary Ayala]

Thank you for the explanations, Gary. That image is so creepy, but surely an interesting capture!

I dunno about which image is more creepy ... your menage a trois of two naked women and one naked man - standing upright with no legs, arms or heads - all lite up in a storefront window - with a featureless, hatted man staring at them ... topped off with a blue aura emulating from and surrounding his very being ... is extremely creepy to moi. ( ... on many levels lol)

 

[Chris Bennett]

Thanks Chris. Over the years and different seasons I never knew when I might be surprised by my cast shadow in some unpredictable location. One of the advantages of returning to a location time and again over a span of time. And to use an expression from childhood "putting on my looking eyes".

'Looking eyes' - I like that.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I dunno about which image is more creepy ... your menage a trois of two naked women and one naked man - standing upright with no legs, arms or heads - all lite up in a storefront window - with a featureless, hatted man staring at them ... topped off with a blue aura emulating from and surrounding his very being ... is extremely creepy to moi. ( ... on many levels lol)

I have to agree that they are both creepy, Gary.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

It takes courage to cook 3 whole ducks at the same time following a Renaissance recipe that you have never tried before, but evidently sixteen years ago I had that courage. The cooker was still the one I inherited from my parents, so it was already over fifty years old at the time. The apron I wore was very kitschy (I don't remember who gifted it to me), I was wearing the red jumper that I am wearing also today and that is perhaps as old as the cooker of time, and the pots are the ones I still use every day.
OK, the photo is not great, but I post it now and in this thread because it was the preparation for a family New Year's Eve dinner, and the self-portraits in the reflection are in place. Time flies, no doubt. Have a happy holiday!

P.S.: The recipe in question was ‘Duck with plum sauce’, a recipe by Bartolomeo Scappi. I shall refrain here from divulging the rest of the menu.