This photo blog is having a self-portrait challenge this week, and yesterday’s challenge was to utilize props. This is my typical, daily lunch. I’m excited to say that in a week I’ll be experiencing a totally different kind of lunch!
Have you ever seen the movie Iron Jawed Angels? It’s a documentary about the women’s suffrage movement, and the risks these women took to fight for our right to vote. They sacrificed their health, marriages, freedom, and lives for us. After seeing that movie, I never want to take that right for granted. So I did my research and got up extra early to cast my ballot yesterday morning.
Canon 60d
1/60 sec., f/5.0, ISO 800
18-200 mm lens (140 mm), ambient light
Although I’ve given up things for Lent before, yesterday was actually my first Ash Wednesday service. But I’m so glad I went, because I feel I can truly embrace the meaning of it now. Giving up something I enjoy is the very least I can do to honor our Lord.
1/4 sec., F5.6, ISO 400
18-55 mm lens (43 mm), no flash fired
Today marks the one-month anniversary of someone stealing my wedding ring. Here is my first attempt at a self-portrait, attempting to portray the emotion I felt when I realized my most valued possession was gone.
Photographic Rhodes 