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Project 365 & Daily Photos
Jake's Backdoor Hippie-palooza, 2014 Edition
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 385220" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>I was sort of joking, because the word gets thrown around a lot. For me, a "selfie" is nothing but a snapshot taken of yourself (and potentially others) to do little more than document that "I was here" and/or fish for compliments from Instagram and Twitter followers. I pretty much abhor the term and what it represents - a nascent narcissism among a generation that continually values image above substance. Why else would there be a need to broadcast to the world what you look like every day - or multiple times each day? </p><p></p><p>With that said, this "self portrait" was taken with a Sony a6000 in self-timer mode, firing 3 shots (in under 1/3 second), while sitting on a cigar box sitting on the shelf above my laptop screen. A "selfie" would have required that I remove the piece of post-it over top of my laptop camera. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>And just so you know, there's no judgement on my part of your using the term. It's just a bit of a hot-button.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 385220, member: 9240"] I was sort of joking, because the word gets thrown around a lot. For me, a "selfie" is nothing but a snapshot taken of yourself (and potentially others) to do little more than document that "I was here" and/or fish for compliments from Instagram and Twitter followers. I pretty much abhor the term and what it represents - a nascent narcissism among a generation that continually values image above substance. Why else would there be a need to broadcast to the world what you look like every day - or multiple times each day? With that said, this "self portrait" was taken with a Sony a6000 in self-timer mode, firing 3 shots (in under 1/3 second), while sitting on a cigar box sitting on the shelf above my laptop screen. A "selfie" would have required that I remove the piece of post-it over top of my laptop camera. ;) And just so you know, there's no judgement on my part of your using the term. It's just a bit of a hot-button. [/QUOTE]
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