It's not that I haven't been riding. I have. Every day. Everywhere.
It's that my camera is heavy and I haven't been in the mood to carry it everywhere.
However, it is conveniently located in my apartment, so I've started a photo series there.
In addition to gradually incorporating bicycles into my lifestyle over the past two years, I've also started to incorporate fashion. I call myself a "recovering frump". For years, I didn't dress very well. This isn't to say that there was anything wrong with the way I dressed but that it didn't make me feel very good about myself. I made clothing choices based on what I thought I should wear (or what I thought I wanted to wear). Now, I'm working on expressing on the outside a visual representation closer to what I feel like on the inside and dressing in a way that makes me feel great and confidant and ready to face the world every time I walk out the door.
I'm also not very good at posing for photos and not good at taking self-portraits, so put all these factors together and you get a self-portrait fashion & bicycles photo series. Be prepared for the same dusty mirror, red lamp, and wacky angles. Practice, practice, practice, they say!
Getting there. Far from the common image given of bicycling where you have to give up your visual identity in order to ride (case in point: the ubiquitous yellow/blue reflective rain jacket)... who knew you could start cycling and actually get more fashionable?
Super chic!
ReplyDeleteHey! First off, Love everything you're wearing! I especially like that last one, I love that you're working in tonnes of skirts. I find it a little disheartening when I see so many bikers wearing spandex, it makes it seem less of an anyone-can-join thing and more of a only-serious-business thing.
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