In the last several years I’ve been doing a lot of self-portraits and that is for several reasons. There are times when I go somewhere and I get inspired by how portraits would look at a place. When that would happen in the past I would just make a mental note of it but then would either forget or it wouldn’t ever happen. Doing self-portraits allows me to have a visual reminder of what I was in my head. It also helps me with posing because helps me know what looks good and helps me know what I’m putting others through when I pose them. I’ve found that doing this helps me be able to show them how to pose with fewer words. It has the added benefit of getting beautiful photos of me.