Exif data: iPhone 3GS, Focal Length: 3.85 mm, Aperture: f/2.8, Exposure: 1/15 sec, ISO Speed: 440, Flash: Not Fired
06/03/2010 at 16:27
Categories: [greyscale]  [iPhone]  [people]  
46 comments
 

• It’s not easy to take a cool self portrait, but you pulled it off really well! Nice to meet you Sherri!
  Arnd @ 2010-03-06 17:09:30
• Such a wonderful quote. It's so true. Everyone hates seeing themselves in pictures..because somehow we don't imagine ourselves to look as we do. That being said - wonderful and very creative self-portrait. Brave!!!
  Marcie @ 2010-03-06 18:09:50
• It's easy if you have a kewl subject! Good to see the "miss chief" behind the mischief. best...jerry
  ordinaryimages @ 2010-03-06 18:16:32
• Well how do you do Sherri -- great to meet you! I've seen glimpses from window reflections but this is fantastic. What a beautiful woman you are so now I know you have beauty both within and on the outside too!
  Diane @ 2010-03-06 20:42:13
• well hello. very nicely framed.
  michele @ 2010-03-06 21:33:11
• If you ever offer a class on the philosophy of photography, let me know so I can take it.
  Chris @ 2010-03-06 21:52:06
• Joli .............lol
  rem_la @ 2010-03-07 00:22:41
• You're not committing a suicide here Sherri!
  There is some truth in Susan Sontag's quote.
  Standley @ 2010-03-07 03:02:11
• what a funny title :)
  yz @ 2010-03-07 03:09:53
• Pretty catch of sight, a self-portrait, and a little pub for apple precedes some, good Sunday with you
  foto-rolero54 @ 2010-03-07 03:53:09
• very beautiful portrait and b&w quality
  yiannis krikis @ 2010-03-07 04:29:45
• Parfait cet auto-portrait.
  JMS* @ 2010-03-07 05:27:00
• Nice to meet you, a super cool portrait, the iPhone sure takes better shots that most cell phones, will try out the cameraon my Nexus one phone, it seems to take good shots also
  JJ @ 2010-03-07 06:33:45
• ok..Sherri, don't take this the wrong way but, I am really interested in the Fostoria crystal in your cabinet. :)
  Ken @ 2010-03-07 08:15:17
• wow..intense! I like it...
  kyungmee @ 2010-03-07 08:28:38
• It's very nice to see and meet you. We've known Evie for a quite a long time but not her driver and mentor. Your iPhone did a fine job of producing a nice self portrait. I really like m iPhone....what a neat device.
  don @ 2010-03-07 08:38:19
• BEautiful self-portrait :)) Very cool frame .
  MARIANA @ 2010-03-07 09:14:24
• A sober introspection in light of the Sontag prose. We are one third who we think we are - one third what others think we are - are one third who we really are. The camera can not help but lie. - Stephen
  Stephen Phillips @ 2010-03-07 10:20:11
• Hi Sherri nice to meet you. The new hairdo looks really nice!
  Frida @ 2010-03-07 10:58:30
• nice one.. your title made me smile.. lol that's a pretty cool selfie too.. :) i do love the quote though.. i can totally relate to that one.. :)
  rian @ 2010-03-07 12:30:46
• Technically this would be isuicide. Interesting quote from S Sontag. I like the photo too.
  Andrés @ 2010-03-07 15:41:58
• A lovely self-portrait!
  Still @ 2010-03-07 16:00:31
• Great idea ! and great statement, i fully endorse it !
  paolo @ 2010-03-07 16:20:44
• greetings, Sherri. nice to put a face to you. terrific self-portrait :)
  Charles Dastodd @ 2010-03-07 18:11:58
• Nice self-portrait. I've done a few with my cell phone but haven't been pleased with the results.
  Mark Johnson @ 2010-03-07 19:43:42
• A nice black and white photo.
  Valérie @ 2010-03-07 23:56:51
• Hi Sherri, it is nice to "meet" you.
  Kala @ 2010-03-08 00:03:14
• Oh. Yours doesn't have a big crack in it like mine. Lucky. ;)
  Michael @ 2010-03-08 00:55:53
• LOL at Ken, and YES, I, too, love the new hairdo. :) I'm glad I didn't miss this.
  Ginnie @ 2010-03-08 01:51:14
• Nice to see you again, cool self portrait.
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2010-03-08 09:30:22
• Hi!!! :-)
  Otto K. @ 2010-03-08 15:56:02
• Hi! Love my iPhone. Hope you do also.
  Nick @ 2010-03-08 20:37:53
• I like the almost sad sensitivity in this particular self-portrait. Often hard to smile for such an image.
  Michael Skorulski @ 2010-03-09 05:59:38
• I love this Sherri...and your haircut, you look amazing :)
  Self portraits are tricky with the iPhone but fun to do. You'll enjoy it and all the very cool apps you can get to go with it. Some of the camera apps are to-die-for!
  bluechameleon @ 2010-03-09 09:07:28
• "Can you hear me now?".......oh shucks, sorry wrong phone company. Very nice.
  Don @ 2010-03-09 12:03:15
• Nice self portrait! You look very carefully at the result??
  Angelo @ 2010-03-09 12:54:16
• this is full of imagination!
  
  you cut your hair..love it
  elk @ 2010-03-09 15:35:47
• Cool portrait of nice composition and amazing quality, considering what you shot it with.
  
  
  george @ 2010-03-09 16:43:20
• Good evening, Sherri, very nice to see you :-)
  To make selfportraits is for me very "hard", perhaps I don`t like me on photos.
  
  Yours is a beautiful result and I like your haircut too ! :-)
  Cerstin @ 2010-03-09 18:26:01
• My, what big eyes you have!
  Turnbill @ 2010-03-10 06:01:53
• Well now, you are a beautiful young lady.
  Michael Rawluk @ 2010-03-10 18:37:42
• I agree with Sontag, and found her essay "On Photography" very informative.
  12bitphoto @ 2010-03-12 12:00:54
• LOL!!!! iMurder, you are a funny girl, that's pretty good quality for a phone picture, are iphones actually taking good pictures? you rook mahvelous by the way :)
  Elaine- @ 2010-03-13 02:00:26
• Wonderful...nice composition and just a great shot! Always good to see you!
  Susan @ 2010-03-17 17:50:51
• Great self-portrait! Very well done!
  Cassy @ 2010-03-17 19:48:13
• Sherri, self portraits are an interesting process. Well done for doing it. I like this very much!
  
  More please.
  terrorkitten @ 2010-03-19 13:10:40

self-portratit, taken with my iPhone


Still, there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder, a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
- Susan Sontag, (Photographer)