Selfies!

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 I love taking pictures, of anything and anyone including myself. I took a few “selfies” using my regular DSLR camera (I don’t know if you can call them selfies if they are taken using a regular camera). It happened to be a sunny day, I love to take photos in the natural daylight, not a professional photographer in the sense that it’s not my profession, I don’t make a living out of it but have taken many photos and think that they are good photos, so if I want a photo of me, why can’t I take one of me by myself? When you see pictures of women, all dressed up, posing in front of the camera, some of them have a daily photo, some post on a weekly basis. A lot of things go through your mind. Some think and I have heard them say “losers, got nothing better to do, so self-obsessed, they lack confidence”…. No matter what anyone says, judgmental we are, at least in the first glance, the opinion can change once we know more about the person or the thing but everybody judges everyone. I myself was guilty of such thinking but then I decided to put myself on the other side .Everybody has a story, we just aren’t aware of it. My story is that I am a stay at home mom , I don’t have  contact with the outside world that often, a woman in my forties , and if I want to take my photos , who is going to stop me? I got a new lens and nobody else was around, husband won’t take them, so there I was, taking pictures of myself. I don’t think it’s the confidence that we lack ,rather we are full of it and that’s why aren’t afraid to post pictures of self , doesn’t matter who took them. Everybody needs reassurance every now and then, everybody needs that “feel good moment” once in a while and that’s all we are looking for. Am I a “loser” because I love to take my own pictures? I don’t think so and don’t care what anyone else thinks. This is for all those women like me... the so called “self-obsessed “ones; keep those pictures coming. Anyone in the area, needs a picture, please contact me, I would love to take your photos. My ramblings on this Monday!!


 


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