YAY! I did it! I managed to take a selfie today!

I am really loving having to take a self-portrait a week right now, because it is the only way I can get myself to take the photos for the pregnancy book. This shot will go in the beginning of the book when we were actually reading all the pre-pregnancy and pregnancy books.

This shot took an amazingly shot time to prepare for and shoot. I used manual focus, due to too many objects in the foreground. Otherwise, the focus would have been on the books and the vase. Didn’t really put make up on or anything, just hair in a ponytail and fake glasses ( I don’t wear glasses for reading).

Hubby was semi-cooperative as usual, with only a few complaining comments about this awful shirt that is made from POLYESTER ( The horror!!!) and how hot he was in it and that I should send it back to MYHABIT, where I got it from and that he’ll never wear it. Gosh, men can be so dramatic! I love the shirt- it looks so hot on him (hot as in sexy) and so what that he has to suffer in the name of beauty? We, girls, do it all the time! One can’t have a whole closet full of cotton shirts only… Am I right?

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OUT OF THIS WORLD

This was a selfie I took in Tortola, the most “out of this world” place I’ve been to. It’s so quiet and calm and slow, so untouched and tropical. This was such a nice little island that they didn’t need to introduce traffic lights until 2001. Josiah’s Bay was by far our favorite, with us being the only two people on the whole beach. Needless to say we took a million selfies there. This was one of them. I had this image in my head before we even arrived on the island. I knew about this particular beach from the research I had done and I wanted this exact shot. With so many things that usually go wrong with most plans, it was amazing to actually make it happen.

SPRINKLES

I thought long and hard about what image I could use for sprinkles. See, I have NEVER had ice cream with sprinkles, and therefore never took a picture of any. I’m not really a sweet tooth kind of girl ( at least not any more), so when I have ice cream, I find that it’s already way too sweet and never opt for any toppings ( at least when it comes to American ice cream. European ice cream is much better in that sense). So after a few minutes of thinking about what could use as sprinkles photo, I remembered the awesome set we took around Christmastime with my Italian/Russian bestie, Elena, in Celebration, Orlando.
As you can see, it was warm, as it normally is in Florida, and one of the biggest traditions the town of Celebration (and Disney itself) has is pouring fake snow set to music on the main streets in November and December. You should have seen us, we danced and twirled and laughed like mad women. I have a video of that and I watch it periodically to get a load of positive emotions. Maybe when I’m feeling super confident and don’t mind our embarrassing theatrics, I’ll post it here once day- with the bad focus ( hubby CANNOT manual focus the camera in video mode- it’s a disability ), classical music and our crazy swan dance.

HAT

These shots were taken in Barbados. The left one was a self-portrait, right one taken by hubby. I think hubs was getting tired of picture taking, hence the funny face

MUSIC

A piano bar on a cruise ship

CLEAR

Antiguan beaches- clear, long and wide, with perfect sand and perfect waves. Antigua is known for its 365 beaches- one for each day of the year.

Also, I’d like to mention that next week’s Selfie Saturday’s theme is BACKYARD. That simple! No need to be creative if you don’t want to be. Just show us yourself as you’d be commonly found in the backyard. It has to be a self-portrait – that’s the only rule!

Like I mentioned previously, I am done taking new photos ( except for SS) and am going to concentrate on catching up on editing of my 46,000 in Lightroom.

I will be posting the photos I am working on and participate in challenges more often now ( considering I’m feeling a bit better), but with previously taken photos.  I’m actually exctied about getting all my thousands of photos edited.

So Today’s SH prompts are:

Black and White

{one of my favorite black an white glitter dresses, crumpled up from a party the night before}

Reflections in Glass

{I love how reflective my hubby’s sunglasses are. I can’t helpt it but always snap a reflection shot}

Headlights

Seeing Double

{WE LOVE DISNEY. And every time we go to Disneyworld ( which is OFTEN), we pick up a cup or two. So at this point we have sets of different cup collections from Disney. They’re so much fun!}

Bare

Show and Tell: {self portrait with a friend from Germany who was visiting us for a week}

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Weekend reflections

I had a total brain fart! As I was writing yesterday’s post about Changes, I completely forgot that it was Friday and I needed to post my SS submission. DUH!

This morning it dawned on me- luckily I had already taken my strawberry selfies and simply had to edit them.

I am very happy with this week’s results. Strawberries is somewhat a difficult topic to pull off in a selfie, but I am very happy with what came out of it. Mind you, the unedited photos were very IFFY, so I can’t believe I made them work.

My 3 Favorites:

This image totally reminds of  Terry Richardson’s style  ( google him if the name doesn’t ring a bell)- RAW, REAL, SEXUAL

This is a more classic strawberry shot I had in my mind but wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to pull off shooting it all by myself

And finally just an ordinary strawberry shot. I love all the juicy colors in this one:

NEXT WEEK’S THEME: LIGHT!

I decided to keep the topics easy and generic for now, with them getting progressively complicated. If you have theme suggestions, shoot me an email

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This week’s theme was celebration and I wanted to do something different but also something that didn’t take a lot of effort, since energy is something that is pretty elusive at this point in my life.

So here we go:

It’s not the celebration that matters- it’s the ending!

NEXT WEEK’S THEME IS STRAWBERRIES

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