reflection
At I ♥ Faces this week, the theme is
~ Reflection ~
And not the thoughtful kind, but the I-see-another-me kind!
As a contributor, I’m not eligible to win, just to play! 
This shot was taken a couple years ago. It was a cold, spring day in need of hot cocoa with marshmallows…do you see Ethan and me in the tea kettle?
And another reflection shot of just me, taken last year, also as part of my dailies. The caption I wrote with it follows…
Thinking…inside the box.
I look through my camera with my left eye, with my right eye squeezed shut and the right side of my face contorted in a grimacing wink. I never knew how much until I took a series of shots to get this shot. A little later, as I stood in front of my bathroom mirror to brush my teeth, I noticed lines on my face (the temporary sort you get when you fall asleep on a wrinkled-up pillow case) extending from the corner of my eye like stretched crow’s feet. Gasp! All that squinting to look through my viewfinder is causing the right side of my face to age faster than the left side! Do I need to train myself to look with my right eye in order to balance this out? I don’t think I’m coordinated enough to do that! I can’t even put my coat on using my left arm first…my right arm ends up flailing around looking for my right sleeve and I have to give up, take it off and start again with the right. Maybe I need to invent a photographer’s face cream, just to be used on the squinty side of the face, to keep it looking as fresh and fair as the opposite side. Hah! I believe this falls under the category of suffering for your art, right?
April 27th, 2009 at 4:13 am
Great shots!
~TidyMom
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April 27th, 2009 at 5:45 am
Great photos! I just found out how bad I squint/grimace too, lol!
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April 27th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I love the red, hot burner under the teakettle (but didn’t anyone ever tell you that a watched teakettle never whistles?). Great staging with all of the props, too! And the post that goes with your squinty eyed pic is priceless.. um, if you ever develop that face cream, please give me a call!
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April 27th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Beautiful shots! The tea kettle, very creative & I love the color & comp.
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April 27th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Great pics. Very creative.
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April 27th, 2009 at 11:00 am
These are both great but I LOVE your adult entry — so so cool and creative!
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April 27th, 2009 at 11:43 am
These are both VERY cool shots! Thanks so much for sharing and playing along just for fun!!!
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Really cool pictures!!!
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Cool shots, both of them. Very creative. I like the perspective/angle on the kettle. You, squinting in a box … fabulous. I appreciate the creativity.
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April 27th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Love, love, love the tea kettle one! So creative!!
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April 28th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Your kitchen is so warm and wonderful looking, just as it should be! And, I too am a left eye dominant, weird scrunching face photographer. No solution to the problem, just battle scares for our passion.
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April 29th, 2009 at 7:25 am
that’s one fine tea kettle. what a fun shot!
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April 29th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Your entries are so creative and unique Elaine…absolutely lovely!
Hey – whenever you invent that “photographers eye cream” will you send me some? I’m in desperate need of it myself!
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April 30th, 2009 at 9:22 am
I LOVE that first shot! So pretty!
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