Selfies as Creative Play

We’ve probably all learned about creative play in one medium or another right? Playing with paints or letting words spill onto a blank page. We know we need that freedom, that learning and the process of making mistakes, right?

Yet when we pick up that camera and take a selfie, so often we forget that knowledge we have of creative play and judge ourselves harshly by our first outtakes, without allowing that room to mess around and make mistakes.

What would happen if next time you pick up your camera to take a selfie you welcomed in that creative play and the process of learning rather than judge ourselves, our bodies and our value on our outtakes?

So I made you this visual story in case you need the reminder that creative play can be (and needs to be) a part of our explorations of selfies too?

P.S. If you’re thinking, “Well if only Vivienne had a class on how to let ourselves find that creative play and freedom”…I do. Well, actually to be honest it’s a part of ALL the classes, that permission to play. In terms of selfies it is a BIG part of both Be Your Own Beloved and the self-paced Beloved Beginnings.

In terms of photography in general…The Rebel’s Guide to Falling in Love with Photography is all about finding that creative freedom through the camera!

But you don’t need a class to give it a try…just remember the ways that you get into your creative zone in other mediums and give them a try with your camera turned on your self. Blast your favourite music. Dance a round a little first. Go out and get some inspiration.

Let yourself play!