Closeup of Cute little African American Hispanic girl with curly hair blowing

Some cool american photo images:

Closeup of Cute little African American Hispanic girl with curly hair blowing

Image by mikebaird
Cute little African American Hispanic girl with curly hair blowing in the wind at the beach near Morro Rock in Morro Bay, CA 12 June 2011.
Photo © 2011 “Mike” Michael L. Baird, mike {at] mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com, Canon EOS 5D Mark II 21.1MP Full Frame CMOS Digital SLR Camera with EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens, handheld, no circular polarizer, RAW.
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Picture frame girl

A few nice picture frame images I found:

Picture frame girl

Image by Be.Futureproof

Picture-Frame Chair

Image by johnwilliamsphd
Klimt-inspired chair

picture frames askew

Image by Mollivan Jon

Girl Climbing Out of Train

A few nice download image images I found:

Girl Climbing Out of Train

Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

Reese and Hayley Happy Summer 2008

Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

b&w tree - desktop background wallpaper

Image by (matt)
photochallenge.org, 2009 challenge, 52/365, theme: black and white trees

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hope you enjoy this series of desktop background wallpapers.

these images are created for a 1.6:1 aspect ratio. the image resolution is 2560x1600, use a setting such as center or fit if you are using a different resolution. this series is comprised of images i like and personally use as my desktop backgrounds.

172/365 - I'm Apparently The Poster Girl for Internet Narcissism

Some cool photo editing online images:

172/365 - I'm Apparently The Poster Girl for Internet Narcissism

Image by Helga Weber
First was that feature on repubblica.it where I was called the modern day Narcissus. And then a feature on some Spanish blog, titled "It is enamored with itself". Seventy four comments, most of which are negative.

I thought of writing an entry about it on my blog but decided to just do it here on Flickr instead. It seems that my stream has gotten popular online and I've been around on the internet long enough to know that people will always judge and have misconceptions about you. I've long learned to not take personally criticisms or words that otherwise wouldn't have been said about me if these people actually knew me.

A handful of people seem to think that I have a lot of free time (aka nothing better to do?) to be able to do what I do (daily self-portraits). Here's how it is: it takes about 15-30 minutes to take my shots (weekdays, I do it before leaving for work. Weekends--- when I have more time--- whenever I feel like it). Editing takes an hour or so, sometimes less, as I have a saved PSD file with all my adjustment layers that I simply drag to the new pictures.

That's about two hours of my day, max. This is a hobby, something I like doing and do mainly for my boyfriend who is 7 thousand miles away. There are people who spend more than two hours on their chosen hobbies. Would you say they have a lot of free time?

Some of the comments say that I have low self-esteem (um, I don't think so?), that I am self-centered and too enamored with myself (would you rather the opposite, a girl who has a bunch of issues and constantly nitpicks herself?), that I am ugly (LOL ok), and that I have no imagination because with all the possible subjects to take photos of, I choose to just shoot myself (I am my best subject, self-portraiture is what I find most interesting...and quite frankly, I don't have the time and luxury to go around the city and take photos of things and people).

I hope I don't sound defensive here, I just thought it'd be best to put down my thoughts on this. I find nothing wrong with self-portraits and narcissism and it bugs me that these people make it out as a bad thing. When my camwhoring starts harming and hurting people (highly impossible, yo), then perhaps I'd understand their point.

Now excuse me while I go visit your streams, I'm probably 50 pages behind.

OUTTAKES IN COMMENTS!!! =p

Girl In Purple Dress Under Rainbow Umbrella

A few nice photo editing free images I found:

Girl In Purple Dress Under Rainbow Umbrella

Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

Ranch Feed Bucket on Fence

Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

Silly Girls in Stripes

Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!