Many people take selfies for different reasons. To share them with friends, to keep them in private albums, or the usual flick of the day. Personally, selfies have become an everyday ritual in my life. I take them when I’m happy, sad, mad, or in any kind of mood. Of course there is something more behind just the picture. The selfie represents something with more meaning. I took lots of consideration when choosing three self portraits that represent my life. While I am a very private person, most of my life could be told through just one selfie. My friends are a big part of my life and is in 90% of my pictures. They appear in the picture but how they contribute to my life doesn’t. They are strong people who build my character each day and I think that is something you could not just tell from a selfie. My next portrait reflects the great love that I have for food. Chipotle is my favorite restaurant and I present that to the world clearly, with almost every post. The last picture reflects what I like to do in my free time. Stories help define my life and I spend a great deal of time reading and relating the books I read to my life. Throughout all of these pictures they all have one similarity. They are things that impact and influence my life and is apart of it everyday. This is how I reflect myself to the world with the things seen and unseen.

I personally am a fan of selfies in some aspects. For one, you get to decide how you want to present yourself whether that be by getting the perfect light, picking your good side, hiding a flaw you're self-conscious about, or making sure to show off something. That may seem like lying and shallow, but that's why selfies are so popular. You get to capture yourself exactly how you'd like. In my first selfie, I'm with my godson in my living room wearing a Babcock Country Club shirt that my dad got everyone in the family. I think this photo is a perfect description of how I want people to see me, and how I portray myself. I love that baby with my whole heart and soul and I'm so proud to be a Babcock. That picture is home and represents what I love. My second "selfie" is a sketch of a Nikon with a sketch that I recreated from an actual selfie I took on my camera. I chose to draw me within the screen of a Nikon because photography has become a huge passion of mine. I want to be represented with it. I see the world through my viewfinder. The selfie I sketched is one from a recent trip to London, England. I love to travel and I think a picture of me making a dumbface in a selfie is another country pretty much sums me up. I'm silly and adventurous. I love that picture, and I will always remember that day. My last "selfie" is one of my brother and I. We were in one of our last days down Ocean City, Maryland. We go every year so this location has a lot of sentimental value and memories attached. I chose to include a "selfie" with my brother because he's my bestfriend and the fact that we have the same stupid facial expression captures how comfortable we are, and how we're basically the same person. 

Overall, I like to take selfies that I'm going to be happy with later and that capture a moment that I want to remember with a person that means something to me. Selfies are less about sole photos of me, and more of my interactions with the people I care about in my life.