Self Portrait

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Self Portrait

I think I must be getting narcissistic but I find myself looking in mirrors and catching reflections and being interested in the interplay. And I only ever have my iphone. So this is what I get. Anyway this is me waiting for a meeting and being reflected back by the receptionist’s desk. There is just such an interplay of stuff in this image.

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Mel Brackstone

Reflections always catch my eye….I’d not want to sit there though….hate looking at myself…
Pilgrim replied

I don’t know but I am curious how I play in the scene and I feel a strange objectivity about it.
Juilee Pryor

this is way cool…. the tension it so apparent…. very nice and I like that little orange angel on your shoulder…..:)
Pilgrim replied

Juliee
I actually the much smaller person sitting down. the man standing up is behind the reception counter. The action is on 3 planes:
- him and what is behind the counter
- me sitting in the chair taking the shot
- the people outside the window.

It would have been good to have had a real camera to capture it better but it was a bit of a secret shot.
Shanina Conway

Fascinating capture so many different moods happening.
Hope the foal is still doing well;)
Pilgrim replied

Shanina
Yes, thank you so much the foal is doing very well. The loss of Genevieve, our gorgeous mare, was heartbreaking but little Angelo is a blessing – you have to love foals. The world is wonderful to them.
Pilgrim replied

No its actually in Sydney. I was up there for the day.
Paul Vanzella

Clever work my friend… like it! Love the way the peripheral people are all on separate planes. Love good use of scale.
Colleen Milburn

Cool :)))
Juilee Pryor

Pilgrim I know that’s you sitting down… now look above the standing man’s shoulder….in reality it may be some buddist monks being projected there but it also looks like an orange angel waiting with you for whatever comes next….....
Pilgrim replied

Yes, I am with you now. And yes she is like an angel. It is quite an odd scene really. Very ordinary but lots of little interplays going on. I think there are actually 9 people (or parts of people) in the scene altogether (excluding the angel). And yet when I took it I was really only conscious of a few of them. Our lives are like that. We see more when we reflect a little.
Juilee Pryor

I’m counting fourteen with the angel… who would be a boy if the picture is of buddist monks…. the lady with the handbag just creeping into the frame…. you…the receptionist then the couple talking with three others a bit further on in the background …then the angel which is actually three men in orange robes…. all monks I would think…. the one in the bottom of the next projection and four in the top of that part of the projection….

but holding all that together is you in the centre…. looking a bit trepicatious to be honest like you would be biting your fingernails or shedding hair if no one else was around….. yet out of all that confusion and multi planes and dimensions…. there is you and the receptionist and the angel….. a good portent in fact…....:)
Pilgrim replied

Now if we are going to count the people in the pictures I think there may be a few more – as I see at least one on the tractor. We have so a narrow field of vision on our lives. We see so very little – I guess that is the way it has to be but it is interesting to me when I can broaden it a little for myself.
Juilee Pryor

actually sixteen not fourteen
Tom Godfrey

cool – Ipic on Iphone, Isee Icommunicate – very interesting
Juilee Pryor

I think thats why we take photos… we ‘know’ the moment but need back up for the reality of the moment…. out intutition tells us that it’s ok to proceed but we really rarely see the details till we are out of the actual moment and can think about it…

and I counted the guy on the tractor and four in the b/w image above that…. three monks (or one angel ) and all the rest of the bit players…. still get sixteen….:)
F.A. Moore

It’s hard to believe any phone got this depth and clarity. I’m impressed with the phone. LOVE the shot. From the travel photos and especially the Buddist monks with the boy, to the 3 behind the desk, to you, to the buildings and people outside. Fun to look at! And unless you had told us the secret, I would not have necessarily spotted that phone between your legs, capturing the whole scene.
Pilgrim replied

Its actually a very poor quality image and lens. But it gets the illusion of being much better because the lighting was fantastic and there is only one depth because all the reflections are essentially at the same level as the man behind the counter. This is why the shot can be taken and work.
Isa Rodriguez

everything here is purely brilliant.. way to go ..
tkrosevear

looking mahvelous Martin…love the dimensions and reflections ;) TK ♥
Rachel Davison

A fascinating image – love the complexity, this really holds my attention!
Pilgrim replied

thank you. it is amazing how well it worked with a very ordinary phone lens.
Karin Taylor

i have to smile, here is the self portrait i’ve been waiting for and i’m 2 days late…wonderful…i have an iphone with me all the time too, and altho the qual isn’t that good…sometimes it just takes a magik shot….it seems to be better the more light you can coax into it….love this!
Scott d'Almeida 14 days ago

WONDERFUL IMAGE,
madworld 14 days ago

This is a great shot, love all the different angles, the movement, the reflections. Yes indeedy, Im envious of such a shot