What can you do in a hotel room?   Take Photos!

Backstory

I've been traveling a lot this year and I've noticed that I tend to take pictures of the hotel surroundings and of myself during the early morning.  I've noticed this tendency since I started my Photo-A-Day  two years ago.  Don't want to pass up a day without taking some sort of photo.

During my recent trip I had a little time to kill in the morning before I drove to the airport.  I am also getting ready for a workshop at a creativity conference called Mindcamp and my topic just happens to be PHOTOAUTOBIOGRAPHY.  So, I thought I would take a few photos of me in my hotel room using a variety of photo making tools that I happened to have with me.  Plus, I wanted to take a couple of headshots knowing that I am getting ready to renew my passport in September.

I actually noticed that a hotel room has a lot of photographic possibilities for self portraiture.  There's a mirror in a bathroom, on the closet door, and near the desk.  Right away that suggested several locations where I could pose for my picture using my conventional Point and Shoot camera that I just happened to bring with me.

I also had an iPhone, ITouch, and iPad so I could play around with front view and back view image making.

I spent about an hour trying different poses, different mirrors, different image making tools.  Then I processed some of the images while on the plane returning home using Snapseed on my iPad.  This is a composite of two images, using Diptic app for the frame.

I felt like I had a productive time taking images at the hotel, downloading the images while waiting at the airport, and processing during my two hour flight back home.  All of this catalyzed by the three mirrors I had in my hotel room, a P&S camera, and some time to kill before my flight.