Day 107 of 365 days. I’ve been doing a lot of day in the life shots lately. In fact, in the last few days I’ve done two shots of me eating. I actually considered doing a shot of me installing Steph’s new car stereo. I took one shot, didn’t like it, and decided that I…
Day 95 of 365 days. One of the most fun things about being a pro-wrestler isn’t exactly obvious. Every year, around this time, a new version of the video game "Smackdown vs. Raw" comes out. Its a wrestling game. And it has the best feature of any video game in the world. You can design…
Day 94 of 365 days. This is something I had been meaning to try for a while. Kind of the opposite of something I had been doing for a while. Pi c’s had recommended it when she saw some of my pictures where I faded into the black background. This is my attempt to fade…
Day 86 of 365 days. This project is great in many ways and very tiring in many ways. The nice thing is that I am learning a lot and I really think Im growing as a photographer. The bad part is that it gets very monotonous just working with myself as a model all of…
Day 48 of 365 days. Won my nightly poker game in record time and then I was just sitting up watching TV (I don’t sleep much) and when midnight hit, I decided to get a jump on todays self portrait. I was especially eager since what I had planned seemed like it was going to…
Day 38 of 365 days. I had been wanting to take a shot featuring all of my tattoos at some point and when Pi c’s suggested a birthmark challenge it seemed like as good a time as any. These are the various symbols that adorn my body, the dates I got them, and what they…
Day 39 of 365 days. And when it rains it pours. Just when I was getting ready to work on the day 38 picture, my computer crashed. I had to reboot it for a software update and when it came back up, it… well, didn’t come back up. I’m guessing its a logicboard problem, because…
Day 34 of 365 days. The seventh and final day of Bringing Back the Sexy. Sometimes its really nice to feel like I have my 365 pic done early and I just don’t have to worry about it the entire next day. I guess I’ll be kinda disappointed if I happen upon doing something really…
Day 31 of 365 days. And so I’ve last a whole month. Only 11 more to go. Some of its been hard. Some easy, but its definitely been fun. And this is the fourth day of me Bringing Back the Sexy. I actually had this mirror idea, or versions of it much earlier in the…
by popular demand, this is the photo from the back of my 365 day portrait for 9-11-06.
I like the shot, but it didn’t tell the story of "many views and angles" that I was trying to tell with the mirrors. Or at least that was my thought. I’m curious as to how people think it compares to the more busy finished piece.
Day 14 of 365 days. "This will be the high point of my day. It’s all downhill from here." – Lester Burnham, American Beauty So I actually took this shot this morning as kind of a backup shot in case I didn’t come up with something better by the end of the day. Then I…
Day 8 of 365 days. I can’t believe I’m in the second week and still going strong. I have a wrestling show today and I’ve been wanting to find some way to take a picture of myself while I’m in the ring, but I haven’t figured out a good way to do it. Sure, I…
day 4 of my 365 days project. The neat thing about this whole process is the evolution of ideas. On day one, as soon as I decided to do the project I knew exactly the shot I wanted to start with. I had the ideas for day 2 and 3 both during day 1, so…
the 3rd picture in my 365 day series. Had this idea early yesterday and almost couldn’t wait to shave in the morning. This is the first shot that wasn’t highly photoshopped (just a little bit of color correction). I’m beginning to wonder how I am going to keep these interesting for a whole year. I’m…
so while browsing flickr, I ran across this photo by stephenpoff. I liked it and then started looking at his photostream and then realized that since the 1st of this year he has taken a self-portrait every day and hopes to do the same every day for a year. I immediately decided that I had to do the same.
This is the first one. Taken on the balcony of my hotel room in Warren, PA where Steph and I are vacationing.
Used in LJ post: chrismaverick.livejournal.com/242675.html (for the announcement that I was doing this)