Self Portrait Saturdays comes to a close

BlogHer recently started a new series called “Own Your Beauty.” It focuses on changing the conversation about what beauty means.

Our mission: to encourage and remind grown women that it is never too late to learn to love one’s self and influence the lives of those around us – our mothers, friends, children, neighbors.

Each  month, there will be a different theme to focus on regarding what beauty is. October was Authenticity; this month is Imperfections. The goal in each month is to slowly change what is perceived as true beauty as opposed to commercial beauty. Along with each theme and goal there is “homework.”  This month’s homework is to take a self portrait every day for the month.

Ironically, this comes as I end a year-long photo project that I called “Self Portrait Saturdays.” It is exactly what it says, a self portrait taken ever Saturday. I took my first photo on November 14, 2010, and today, 52 Saturdays later, I take my last photo today.

It was fun! I thought it would just show me weight fluctuations and hair color changes. Instead it showed me travels, emotions and various events of my life this last year. Some of the photos are ones I absolutely love. Others I just phoned in and would love to re-do… but they wouldn’t be authentic if I did.

I’m not going to go on with this for another year. I start my next Project 365 this week, and I’m sure there will be plenty of self portraits within that. For anyone curious, you can see all 52 images in my Flickr photo album. I’ll close this entry with my first photo and then today’s photo.

Everyone definitely go check out the BlogHer series, though! I’m very excited about it and can’t wait to see what themes are yet to come.

4 thoughts on “Self Portrait Saturdays comes to a close”

    1. You should!! Its so much fun… and you definitely can see your skills advance through the year. My last one was a huge learning task, and I can’t wait to do it again.

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