New addition: self-portraits. Enter simple joy

Inspired by photographers who post artistic self-portraits (like  Katie West and Retrogradation (nudity alert: NSFW), I figured I would try this sometimes too. I find myself particularly drawn to photos that seem to tell a story rather than just "model" shots -- I like the idea of building circumstances around a scene: what are they thinking? What are they doing? -- and hope to play with this a bit. Patrick Calder does this too, but with other people, not self-portraits. His shots depict people doing things, a moment frozen in time. It's simply lovely.

I took this Saturday:

black & white: "simple joy"

I can almost hear you saying: "Maybe she is joyful because she's NOT folding the pile of laundry in the background?" lol!