Selfies/Self-Portraits

“For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

La vie commence à cinquante ans, c'est vrai; à ceci près qu'elle se termine à quarante. ― Michel Houellebecq Life begins at fifty, that’s true, inasmuch as it ends at forty. La vida empieza a los cincuenta años, es cierto; con la salvedad de que termina a los cuarenta. Late night ruminations after a long writing session.

“Todos los grandes cuadros son en realidad autorretratos.” ― Donna Tartt Taken with the Lumix GX8, and the DJI/Panasonic/Leica 15mm lens.

“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask...” ― Vladimir Nabokov “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” ― Samuel Beckett Taking a photo of a reflection of a photo of the photographer.

“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.” ― W.H. Auden The photographer reflected in a mirror which is reflecting the mirror image of himself in his camera's screen.

My heart a hole the size of the sun's eclipse. I push through the dark circle's tattered edge of light. (Diane Glancy)

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts” ― Jim Morrison "What game? What precisely is the nature of my game?" ― Reynolds Woodcock (from the movie "Phantom Thread") My friend Chase Danielle who is a brilliant barber gave me a shortish haircut; but now that it is growing out, it's starting to look a little like Reynolds Woodcock's, in the movie 'Phantom Thread'. Which is not a bad thing.

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ― Ansel Adams Mirror-image of my Olympus Tough camera.