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Published: 2012-09-12 06:23:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1204; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 19
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” - Anaïs Nin[Let me tell you how inconspicuous I looked biting down on some ivy while wrapped in a sheet. I feel like self-portraits are really helping me to care much less about what others think of me. After all, the guy who slowed to a near halt on his bike to give me the side-eye certainly didn't know what I was doing would become this image. Anyway, it felt really nice to shoot something in nature, with earthy, vivid colors. I definitely needed a little breather from the heavier images of the last couple days. This wasn't even my initial concept I had for today, but it worked out, I think. I really like the color green.
Huge props to my friend Austin for showing me two ways to use the tripod that I didn't even know existed! Man, I'm smurt. First ever aerial shot with ye olde tripode!]
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Hah, I thought us Finns would be much more likely to give baffled stares at unusual looking outdoor portrait photography. I have only once been yelled at—by a mentally challenged middle-aged woman, who accused me of being a spy photographer. The hilarity was that she kept her good distance, and I decided to play along and stare silently at her in a "you'd better not intimidate us spies" fashion, effectively scaring her somewhat, judging by the increasingly unnerved look on her face. But I digress.
You really look like you are a flower in a tight bud. Your facial expression conveys the sense of uncertainty mixed with determination. I won't say it's hesitation, because the two feelings look like they pulse and alternate on your face. They're not simultaneously there, and that adds to the emotional content. Your eye make-up compliments the surroundings of the picture wonderfully.
I also like your choice of cloth here—I can see it either as the petals of a rose, or a camouflage which leaves only your head floating freely in the middle of the ivy. One of the vines does crop your eye a bit too intrusively, though, but since it doesn't slice right through it, there's really nothing spoiled in this picture.
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"So Alice," the Mad Hatter said kneeling next to her "how do you know the world you came from wasn't just a dream?" Geat image Kindra , like how you just have your face showing through the ivy, make-up looks great. like the color and composition. Always a pleasure seeing what journey you take the viewer on next.
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So beautiful! 
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This is beautiful, Kindra!
I love the ivy, and the eye make up is so stunning against it!
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