More selfies!! Run away, run away!

I am having soooo much fun with this. Today I went through Tivoli on my way home from work - what else is a year pass good for, eh? I can just go in whenever I want. Sweet!

Anyway, here are the best and the funniest of today's stint...

Sometimes I can't believe how lucky I get that these pictures aren't completely off kilter (this one is a tiny bit)....



Tickling the stone lion - he doesn't seem to be enjoying it.....



I really love this. So much so that after years and years, I finally replaced the Elf Maiden profile picture on FB with this one:



In this, I was sorta trying to get a picture of my head down to and including my eyes, with beautiful flowers and fountains behind me. First of all, I have a huge forehead that sorta gets in the way. Second, what kind of angle do you call this?



These are the flowers and fountains I was trying to include:



Tivoli have put up a row of mirrors up near the main entrance. Some of them are normal mirrors, some of them are not. Behold!



In this one I discovered the obvious difference between the angle my eyes are using to view things, and then what happens when I put my camera down at waist level. Argh, run away, run away! Incidentally that big black blob is my backpack.



Look at my fringe!



Look at my neck!



*End Of Shenanigans*

Selfies - if ya hate 'em, skip this post

Okay, so I have embarked on this: http://www.viviennemcmasterphotography.com/beloved-beginnings/

I will probably take longer than ten days, but hey, I don't mind, I am going to have FUN with this.

Today I went to the park after dinner and played around with taking pictures in the late afternoon light. So here are the best and the funniest.

This one was a complete fluke, because I didn't realise that I hadn't zoomed back out after the previous shot - I am simply extending my arm and pointing it at my profile, and I'm focusing on keeping my eyes open into the sun. I couldn't have composed it better had I actually tried.

And, it's a little bit embarrassing (but very funny) - that orange dot on my cheek is not weird pigment, it's a tiny piece of chopped carrot from my dinner.



This one is completely out of focus, but I really really adore the light in it, and the composition. If only it didn't look so much like I'd photoshopped myself in, but then again, who would do that with a completely blurry image?



This one was taken by setting the camera on top of a handball goal - there are a couple of them scattered around the wider grassier areas of the park behind my house. I zoomed in a little bit, set it to take a picture after 10 seconds, and ran for it. The first time I stopped running too soon, and looked back at the camera just as it took the picture. Composition-wise it's not bad.....that's about it. Note to self: next time you do this, try and count to ten Mississippis before you turn.



In this one, same MO, I was going for the Luthien-dancing-in-the-grass vibe (and NOT, emphatically NOT Maria-on-the-hilltop-in-Sound-of-Music). Not sure I hit it, but I'm also pretty sure I could have been a lot further from it than this.



In this one I look positively eeeeevil - those staring eyes (I'm facing into the sun), and that insane little smile lurking at one corner of my mouth and that nasty raised eyebrow. Appearances deceive, I swear!



This last one is the best of the lot - there is nothing I don't love about this picture, even the slightly crooked horizon that I only noticed while I was adding the picture to this post.