self portraiting

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I love photography, and have been taking a lot of self portraits since I switched to digital.
Its theraputic in a way.
It is fun to make a lot of faces and then immediately looking at the results. Sometimes it can be surprising, because my face often doesnt look like I think it looks. For instance, many times it ends up looking like I am smiling when I didnt think I was, or I try to smile and end up with a pretty creepy portrait...

I think this instant feedback has helped me with learning to express myself more appropiately, and understand why people react certain ways to me.
It's different than looking in a mirror, because you don't have the visual cues to help you along.

A lot of people don't enjoy self-portraiting, because they either see no point to it or feel if they did it would be considered arrogant.

I would recommend it though!!
Even if its just a cheap digital camera... spend a few hours experimenting with different expressions. You could learn something from yourself.
I have been treating my body more as a "subject", than if it were ME. It is difficult to see the results as being ME, so I think that is why I have so much fun with it because it's the same as if I were trying to capture another person.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/apeirophobia/ is my flickr photo stream if anyone else uses flickr.
Until a year ago I never took any pictures of myself. Now it is a new hobby that I pursue happily when it is too rainy outside to take nature photographs.

Nice pic's....very nice actually!

While I can't say I'm a fan of having my picture taken, I've been thinking about playing around with my camera since I went digital too.
Recenty got bak into photography as a hoby after a 13 year leave. I'm still rather amature at it but getting better.
I'm really wanton got do low light and night scape stuff but haven't gotten around to doing anything yet.

My flickr page in the WWW icon at the bottom.