To replace RWPE on Mondays this year, I am going to attempt to take a self-portrait every day this year. I have no expectations that I will take 366 winners (or even 66 winners for that matter), but that isn’t necessarily the point.
Although you will be able to see how much weight I gain this year, how much hair I lose, how much more dashing I become, and how many times I shave (over/under is at 10 for you gamblers) that isn’t really the point either.
Although I’m sure a few of the important events of 2012 will be recorded, documenting my life for 1 year isn’t really the point either.
The is a photography exercise more than anything else. An exercise to get me to attempt to think creatively at least once every day. Hopefully there are some winners in there. Hopefully I don’t gain any weight and I know that I will become exponentially more dashing. Hopefully I will have more than 10 reasons to shave this year. Hopefully there are many good milestones in my life worth documenting. But, all of those will be ancillary benefits.
I will try to take all of these pictures without assistance. Meaning, I won’t hand the camera to somebody and say, “Take a picture of me doing X.” But I’m sure that will happen on occasion.
Here are the first 8 pictures from this project.
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-hsxznn3/1/L/010112-L.jpg)
01/01/12 12:01 AM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-6ZJSR72/1/L/010212-L.jpg)
01/02/12 11:25 PM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-F9x7r5c/1/L/010312-L.jpg)
01/03/12 9:12 PM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-2cdC4t6/1/L/010412-L.jpg)
01/04/12 4:42 PM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-V4Vqh89/1/L/010512-L.jpg)
01/05/12 6:12 PM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-4NwCqwK/1/L/010612-L.jpg)
01/06/12 10:24 PM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-ddFCttR/1/L/010712-L.jpg)
01/07/12 8:41 PM
![](http://photography139.smugmug.com/Other/Self-Portrait-Project/i-2XtMQjJ/1/L/010812-L.jpg)
01/08/12 6:39 PM
Hopefully this will provide amusement to somebody besides me.
I am quite amused that it appears Naima had quite the New Year’s party without you!
She does have many parties without me.