✨ Welcome to our #beeinmybonnetloop ✨ We are a group of fine art photographers that will be drawing inspiration from sayings, phrases or quotes interpreting them according to our own poetic license! Our group name denotes the creative ‘buzz’ and lingering obsession that surrounds a new idea! 🐝 Phrase of the day: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle Next up is: @bluehillimages My original inspiration was this teal door. I photographed myself by this door, in all different ways. This one pulled at me more than the others. As I experimented with different images, the story unfolded. It’s a story I have shared before, and an image I have used before. But some stories warrant retelling. Maybe we need a reminder. Maybe there is something we missed. Maybe someone else needs to hear it. So here goes. Throughout childhood and into adulthood I had the same reoccurring nightmare. I was being chased. It shifted a bit as I got older, but the feeling was always the same. I was panicked, I was helpless, I was moving in slow motion, I was incapable. I shared this with an advisor one day. A wise man, providing clinical supervision as I was working on my therapist licensure. He knew enough about me, in how I think. There was a long pause before he spoke. He smiled as he slowly said, ‘you will decide when you are done with that.’ What a gift! My suffering here was mine to decide. I created it. I can end it. I don’t need to wait for guidance, for opportunity to rescue me. I needed to trust myself to decide. The next time I had the nightmare, in my lucid dream state, I decided this is really silly. I don’t need to be here. I don’t need to feel like this. And that was the end of my reoccurring nightmare. My door out, and into a new way of understanding myself and my own capability. #clickproelite #phlocklive #thisdetailedlife #fortheloveofthephotograph #createandinspirehub #fineart #selfportrait #igartistry #artofselfportraiture #jj_supereditz #ipadart