Those of you who know me, and for sure those of you who are my students know how I love the power of the self portrait. I always get the same look from folks when I suggest they make self portraits, a bit of fear and a whole lot of why.  My friend Tom mentioned in a recent blog post about making a self portrait and my first thought was " right on, I want to tell every one to go out and take some pictures of yourself". The process is challenging both technically and emotionally but that is the exact reason to make one. Think about it for a second, in a self portrait, maybe more than ever you are going to want to make an image that shows a feeling and emotion that goes beyond the subject. A literal portrait of yourself is not what comes to our mind right.  We want more than that, we want to say all we can about ourselves. The goal for all of our work if I am not mistaken.  So here is my ask; make a self portrait even if it is only for yourself.  If you want to share it here that would be cool, I have made a back page on my site where I can post them.  You can see a few of mine in the gallery now and I will add more. Email me your self portrait as a jpeg I will post it with the rest. The blog self portraits

Be well,

Ray