November 19, 2013: In Honour of The Word Of The Year...A Selfie!

365 Project, Day 116

Here is my day 116 submission to my 365Project:

I was trying to think of something to photograph today when I remembered an interesting project I heard people are doing; taking a photo of themselves (aka a "selfie") each day for a year or even longer. I don't know if I'll be doing a project like that...I feel a bit silly taking 'selfies' but I thought I'd take one today. 

Actually, I kind of liked the shot because it really highlighted the colour of my eyes. I don't think about the colour of my eyes often but I liked how they came out in this photo :) 

Fun fact of the day:

Apparently "selfie" is the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year for 2013!

Read more about the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year at this Oxford Dictionary webpage.

August 18, 2013: Sweet Dreaming

365 Project, Day 58

Here is my day fifty-eight submission to my 365Project:

Okay, well I wasn't actually sleeping when I took this photo...I had been trying to figure out what to do for my photo today when I was lying in bed and thought it might be fun to take some sort of photo from in my bed. Although I felt a bit silly taking a self portrait while pretending to sleep I thought it turned out pretty fun (and I have to admit I was chuckling to myself when I did it!).

Fun fact of the day:

"Lucid dreaming" is what dreaming when you knowing you're dreaming is called. Today I listened to another wonderful Radiolab podcast, this one on dreaming, and I heard some fascinating stories about people and their lucid dreams. Apparently we should all be able to do this...and here's a link to the Lucid Dreaming website with tips on how to do this. Sounds like fun to me :)