This is the sixteenth official Monday of this challenge!
Make a self-portrait every week, based on a new theme.
The new theme will be posted on Monday.
This last week was all about our favourite place. Debbie Orlando picked the winner and it's Heather ( @smevvy ) with this picture:
Congratulations Heather!!!
I loved all the places where we felt our best!
This weeks selfies must be based on Heathers choice: Scars!
She said this: "For this week's challenge, I'd like to choose 'scars'. We had skin as a theme a few weeks ago, and I really loved the scar photographs which a couple of people took. I've always loved scars; they tell a story and make us individual. This doesn't need to mean actual, physical scars (although, the more, the better!), it can be a portrayal of emotional/mental/internal scars."
I think it's going to be a really cool challenge, lot's of ways to interpret and very fitting for this season!!!
And this weeks selfies are again also date-restricted. You only can take and post them until late Saturday evening or Sunday morning, depending on where you live! Then Heather will pick the winner and he or she can choose the new theme for next week.
You can post your self-portrait in this thread and tag it with monday-sp16.
Have fun!!! I'm sure we all will show how life can throw you some twists this week!
@smevvy I loved yours to moment I saw it, and it made me a bit jealous; the theme made me a bit sad, because I realized I didn't have a real fav. place nearby. This new theme is a bit scary to me.... but I'm going to give it try (without "harming" the people I love deeply)
I don't think I'll be entering this week. I only have two scars. One is a caesarean scar and the other in my breast where I had a lump removed. Neither would make a good shot!!
@smevvy Seriously Heather!! If I took a shot of my caesarean scar I'd also have to take a shot of my stretched marked belly and extra bits that would definitely be inappropriate ;o)
@eliserose781 Just viewed this on your 365 album and you should really put the poem you wrote there on here, too. It's a great connection to the picture.
Not the first time my ear has been featured in a ME EVERY WEEK competition. While there are no visible scars on my ears when I was little I felt my ears were huge and stuck out because my sister had very tiny petite ears and that scarred me until I was a grown woman. I always wore my hair covering my ears because of that. Now I know better and am happy to show my ears AND my favorite pair of earrings that just happen to have been a gift from that sister.
My bravest selfie yet! These are my two "nearly-the-same-scarline" Caesarean scars and part of my gazillion stretch marks... and the two precious little cuties who made it all worthwhile! :) BTW... those precious little cuties are now 40 and 38, so these scars have been a part of me for quite awhile!
First of all these scars are all on my fingers or thumbs in spite of what it may look like!
The top one is from a spice can before I was 5. You have to be really old to remember how dangerous those cans were!
The one on the left got caught in a toy rifle when I was 5 or 6. Again you have to be really old to remember when toys were dangerous and it was YOUR fault if you got hurt on one!
The one on the right was when I was considerably older and trying to cut the bottom off of a too tall Christmas tree. The saw slipped but my thumb stopped it!
Some scars from birthmarks having been removed, birthmarks left yet untouched, loss of elasticity, lines and wrinkles...these are the scars of the realization that aging is underway.
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These are the scars above my eye and on my arm:
I love your interpretation of the theme.
The top one is from a spice can before I was 5. You have to be really old to remember how dangerous those cans were!
The one on the left got caught in a toy rifle when I was 5 or 6. Again you have to be really old to remember when toys were dangerous and it was YOUR fault if you got hurt on one!
The one on the right was when I was considerably older and trying to cut the bottom off of a too tall Christmas tree. The saw slipped but my thumb stopped it!
"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
Henry Rollins
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran
I have a fair number of scars both physical and mental and some a combination of both. I decided to opt for the least miserable lol.