Friday Faces: Self-Portrait

Thanks to everyone who sent me pictures for Friday Faces! This is the second posting of self-portraits. You are invited to leave comments.

The next challenge.
How often to you pull in an out of your neighborhood without talking to anyone? Do you know the people you live next to? Some of us are close to our neighbors - the kids are friends, we chat while gardening, or even do meals together, but some of us maybe have never had more than a brief conversation in passing. Over the next two weeks, capture the face of a neighbor. The rules: 1) You have to get permission to take the shot! 2) Have a conversation and get to know something new about them. Email these to me by Wednesday, November 3 at paige@pocketsmiles.com

Andrea: Here I am surrounded by boxes. My face is that of a woman who walks around in a daze and tries to keep a smile going because it's too exhausting to be stressed! I also desaturated the color because I feel very desaturated these days.

Amy: After 14 weeks of having a baby I find myself frequently only seeing the wrinkles, post-preggo belly flab and wide hips. So I took an opportunity to put on some make up and take a picture that makes me feel like the woman that my husband constantly tells me that I am.

Paige (me): I've always hidden from the camera, never having been photogenic and always conscious of my flaws. I'd either make a goofy face or later regret this or that angle and the extra love under the chin. However, as I hit my late twenties started looking back on pictures of myself, I started realizing how silly I was being, and that perhaps I was beautiful just as I was created. I took a serious self-portrait with natural light and little makeup (the bathtub was my location) and I perked up the shot by playing with the vibrance, contrast, and saturation.

Dee Dee: Took this with my phone camera. Not especially flattering and dubbed "Ignoring the alarm"