DIRECTIONS

I'm at the beginning of a new year doing what I always do - thinking about which direction my life will head during the next 12 months. Is it going to be a slow sail across calm waters, or a struggle against elements I can't control? So far it seems to have been the latter but the year is young yet and there will be many changes ahead.

Today I uploaded a photo of myself onto my blog. I have never done this before because I am totally un-photogenic and hate seeing (and have other people see) my photograph. But my One Little Word course starts with taking a photo of yourself, so I played around taking self-portraits with the safety net of having the camera obscure half my face. After I took the first few and looked at them in Lightroom I realized that I was a) frowning with concentration (not a good look) and b) sticking out my tongue in concentration! So I started again and eventually realized that I could look through the viewfinder, set up the shot, and then open my other eye before I took it! Then I even tried smiling at myself!! And the result is now up for all to see. I converted it to black and white so no-one would realize I have grey hair :-)