It was one year ago that Faded & Blurred organized its first photo walk… twelve photo walks, one website, a podcast, and one great community later, we celebrated back where it started, Venice Beach:

Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
~ Mia Hamm

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
~ Woodrow Wilson

I came across a really neat (my daughter is cringing that I am using that word) gallery show in New York. It is called “Incognito: The Hidden Self-Portrait”. The pieces in it are all self-portraits done by modern photographers, but they are not the typical self-portraits in that none of them are obvious. The artists are in the pictures, and yet they are all obscured in some way, either with shadows or reflections or movement… in some cases it is difficult to see that they are, in actuality, pictures of the photographer.

I got very inspired looking at these images and decided to not only do a self-portrait of my own, but to offer up a challenge over at Faded & Blurred. If you are a photographer (even if you aren’t!), head over there and take part in the challenge. You can enter as often as you would like and you get a chance to win Steve McCurry’s book “Portraits”.