My friend Mandolyn McConaha and I are off to challenge ourselves to a little self-portrait assignment for the month of May and maybe beyond. This is how it works. 1-2 self-portraits are due a week. All of which must be blogged to keep our quality up, up, up! The whole point of this assignment is not because we're super narcissistic and can't get enough of our faces, though some might disagree. In theory, it is to practice conceptualization and taking the crazy ideas in our heads and seeing how far we can push them.So in the future when we have scores of talented models at our disposal, ::cough, cough:: We'll be so good that we'll know not only how to design a scene, take the picture, but also how to tell the model how to pose and direct a photo shoot. Bam! That easy. Like an easy bake oven or the Showtime Rotisserie JUST... Set it and Forget it! Rotisserie chicken sounds delicious right now... yum. with a little bit of roasted garlic, sun-dried tomatoes and goat's cheese? oooh and lay it on a nice bed of balsamic vinegar dressed spring greens.Ok enough about food that I can't eat for another 8 months! ::Inge picks up her chopsticks and continues eating her kimchi and seaweed breakfast:: Here's my first portrait of the project. Entitled 'Springs Arrival' I've never had so much trouble focusing a camera in my life. Being the subject and the photographer is rough work. I should get paid double or at least eat double. Oh wait, never mind, that night I ate like I was a lady pregnant with twin elephants.Also check out Mandolyn's picture here --> http://mandolynm.blogspot.com/