Last year on my birthday I went down to the beachfront and took a self portrait of myself for birthday sake, so at lunchtime I headed down to Shark Rock Pier to do it again. This time I had nothing to do a reflection or mirror shot in, so I just did the whole “hold the camera up with both hands and smile while taking the picture into the general direction of my face” photo thing. A guy was standing on the pier staring at me with a puzzled look on his face, but I thought what the hell… its my birthday.
Oh yes, and moments later I could have been wet. My timing was just right. The lesson may well have been: “Don’t turn your back on the ocean when trying to take birthday self portraits!”
Firefly the Travel Guy 
FIRE LOL… Happy Birthday! p.s. i once took a picture of myself underwater, same scenerio, you should of seen the fish looking at me. I think i was givin off distress signals !! LOLOL again Happy Bday, thank you for the gifts you give the rest of us all year long !
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happy BDay to you also….The vingette is nice.
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Hello. Happy Birthday! I pray that there is a much more splendid photograph beautiful every day.
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Happy Birthday!!!!I hope all your birthday wishes come true and that you have your best year yet!
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What a whole different image you'd have had in just a matter of moments. Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday for yesterday!! Great birthday photo!! Shame .. you had no-one else to take your photo – why didn't you get the guy on pier to do it for you?
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Happy, happy Birthday – I do hope it will be a year filled with happiness and great photo shots – I have no doubt it will be! Trying to imagine the photo had your timing not been so good!! LOL! Have a great week-end!
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Happy Birthday!!!
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Hope you had a wonderful birthday 🙂 Love the selfportrait, they're so difficult to get right
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Happy Birthday! I'll second the lesson, as turning one's back on nature tends to not always be the best decision one could have made. But hey, it was your birthday.
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A belated Happy Birthday.The photo actually came out quite well. I must get the rest of my Australia photos on my blog. I'll be leaving soon by ship, Boston to Buenos Aires. (Back to one of my favorites, South America.)Margaret
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