2004. My wife in Kauai. Again on the Nikon N-65 35mm.
I’ve never had a lot of confidence taking portraits. It was the same with paintings.
I’m an introvert by nature.
I did a lot of self-portraits in art classes and Very few portraits of others, leading some people to think I was just full of myself, if they looked at my body of work as a whole.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
I hate doing a thing poorly. And if I mess up something I’m creating, I would prefer to mess up a picture or painting of myself than have someone else disappointed with my capture.
So I did self portraits.
And then when my wife married me, she got to also be my guinea pig.
Eh, she knew what she was getting into.
I painted a whole series of us together while we were still dating!
This is one of my favorite captures of her in Kauai.