Facing Myself - July linky

I'm not sure exactly what possessed me.

In the nearly three years that we've lived here, I swear I have never before climbed the windmill even once. And certainly not at one o'clock in the morning.



Although my husband has done it. When we first moved here, climbing the windmill was the only way we he could get reception on our cell phone. Our only phone. Yes, for real.

Perfectly civilized, don't you think?

That shot was way harder to get than I imagined it would be. Of course, having never previously climbed the windmill, maybe I just didn't know what I was getting myself into. My timer is all of ten seconds. The bottom of the windmill ladder is five and a half feet off the ground. The shutter speed I decided on was half a second.

In the howling wind at one o'clock in the morning with our dog thoroughly enjoying the show.

So once I had the camera all set up and found a step-stool, it went something like this: push shutter button, run, climb, freeze at the exact half-second moment it mattered, climb back down, tell the dog how much I love her, peek at the photo and it's histogram... wash, rinse, repeat nineteen times.

You don't even have to do the math to know I was a sweaty little monkey by the time I gave up.

And yet I think this shot worked.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, go have a great holiday weekend with family and friends. I wish you awesome food, cold beverages, sunny days and mosquito-free evenings. You have all week to come back here and link up with your self-portrait. For details click here and also here.

The next Facing Myself linky will be here the first Saturday of August. Those of you who are intrigued and also terrified by the thought of a self-portrait, you have an entire month to think about it. I expect my head might explode with all the self-portrait ideas I have. Now, wouldn't that be something to get a picture of?