Today I want to share that I am incredibly self concious when taking self portraits.  I always feel silly, I try to avoid areas or times with lots of people and there have been times I skipped the photo altogether because of it.  Well, I'm trying not to let that stop me.  I wanted to do a photo in the water by the river.  It's at a popular park and was a beautiful day and the tripod was on the bridge right from the parking lot.  I pushed through my anxiety and set up the tripod and got everything read and then climbed down the rocks and waded into the water.  And you know what, it was fine.  It is good to step out of ones comfort level from time to time.

As I was packing up, I took my phone out to get a photo of water ripples caused by the fish for an Instagram photo challenge and I dropped my iPhone into the water.  It sunk clear to the bottom.  I rushed and pulled it from the water and dried it.  I left it in rice overnight and to be honest, it is as if it never happened.  Everything seems to be working just fine.  Whew, bullet dodged.  That was not the kind of anxiety I had planned or hoped to experience or to ever experience again.  But if you drop your phone in water, dry it good, turn it off (don't use it even though I did) and put it in rice.  It really works.

This photo I took before the phone incident as I was coming out of the water after my shoot.  I was standing in the same spot I had to stand to fish out my phone.  Premonition????

Lost Phone