{"id":9738,"date":"2013-03-18T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T07:45:21","slug":"365-days-of-self-portraits-days-43-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/9738","title":{"rendered":"365 Days of Self Portraits: Days 43 &#8211; 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In an effort to gain self confidence and deal with body image issues still remaining after my weight loss, I decided to take part in a 365 project focusing on self portraits.\u00a0 My hopes are that after a year of taking a photo of myself ever day, that I will stop hating photos of myself, stop picking apart the things I hate about my body and learn to accept myself in a way that I haven\u2019t been able to before.\u00a0 It is uncomfortable, challenging and at times scary as I am also putting myself out there in a way I never have\u2026 but sometimes personal growth requires stepping out of your comfort zone.\u00a0 So this is my project, 365 days of Self Portraits\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week 7 was a pretty easy week, with a mixture of quick mobile shots and a little bit of imagination.\u00a0 I think this was the start of the turn for me where I went from major discomfort in taking self portraits, and starting to find it a bit fun.\u00a0 It was less of a chore and the enjoyment started making me think a bit more about what I wanted to do each day.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 43\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8468916244\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 43\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8111\/8468916244_031fcf9257_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 43 \u2013 Me and my trusty sidekick, Bailey.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 44\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8473207747\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 44\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8371\/8473207747_ba0b893f58_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"907\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 44 &#8211; Every time I put this t-shirt on I realize how much I miss Prague. I love that city!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 45\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8474295380\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 45\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8247\/8474295380_bcf632a5f1_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 45 &#8211; This is what not having to make dinner looks like. Curled up with my e-book while hubby cooks a surprise Valentine&#8217;s Day dinner!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 46\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8476259399\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 46\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8107\/8476259399_68151cb0f9_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 46 &#8211; Daydreaming<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 47\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8480156734\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 47\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8234\/8480156734_39f44770ab_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 47 &#8211; Saturday evening working on a new puzzle. We are such party animals!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 48\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8482426293\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 48\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8248\/8482426293_9396ccb14b_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 48 &#8211; Throwback to my childhood&#8230; how many of you also used to love to do the crazy chin faces?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Project 365 - Day 49\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/8485863689\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project 365 - Day 49\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/8373\/8485863689_ddbd865965_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 49 &#8211; Out enjoying the sunshine with my stilts shadow and puppies!<\/p>\n<p>Previous weeks of my 365 Days of Self Portraits project:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/9575\">Weeks 1 &amp; 2: Days 1-14<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/9695\">Week 3: Days 15-21<br \/>\nWeek 4: Days 22-28<br \/>\nWeek 5: Days 29-35<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/9724\" target=\"_blank\">Week 6: Days 36-42<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to gain self confidence and deal with body image issues still remaining after my weight loss, I decided to take part in a 365 project focusing on self portraits.\u00a0 My hopes are that after a year of taking a photo of myself ever day, that I will stop hating photos of myself, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[60,422,881,634,545],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-photography","tag-bailey","tag-dogs","tag-photography-artsy-fartsy","tag-prague","tag-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9746,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions\/9746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}