When my wife and I set out for a morning walk today, we passed by the same mirrors from whence came my selfie yesterday. She stopped for one, too, and I captured the Featured Image; discretely with iPhone 13 Pro. Vitals: f/1.5, ISO 50, 1/1901 sec, 26mm; 10:26 a.m. PDT.
Annie tends to shoot portrait orientation, and she has a great eye for composition. More than 99-percent of the time, I choose landscape. You could count on one hand my number of vertical shots since acquiring Leica Q2 on the last day of 2019.
The second photo is actually a tester made to show my sweetie that she can use one of the iPhone 13 Pro’s volume keys as a shutter button. Vitals are same as the other but one-minute earlier.
Funny aside, over on Flickr, Tomasz Stramel asked about my mirror selfie: “Did you seize the opportunity and ask ‘Who’s the fairest of them all?'” I’m not sure if this would have worked since the mirrors weren’t on the wall; still, it might have been worth a try!”
To which I replied:
I am not entrepreneurial enough. Your question makes me realize that I missed a golden opportunity. I live in narcissistic Southern California, where people would line up and pay to ask and hope to be ‘the fairest of them all’. Call it a magic mirror and they would come. The beauty of the scheme: The mirror only answers the one who is fairest, which would immediately dispel any accusations that the mirror isn’t magic. The thing only needs to answer once, which is never. My point: People will believe anything, especially with chance of feeling good about themselves. How tragic.
I wrote that before Annie and I visited the mirrors—of course, she is fairest of them all.