The hardest thing.

My friend Burton Rast suggested a 100 day project to get me going on photography and learn something about myself in the process. The hardest thing I could think of was making a picture of myself every day for a hundred days.

Body image is the thing I struggle with mightily. Sharing a self-portrait every day is stripping myself bare in front of everyone. If this was going to happen, it should be difficult.

Instagram was first. The photos felt bare without captions. After that first shirtless photo the words just flowed, like someone else was writing them. That's happened a few times in my life. Once the first caption was done, the rest had to follow.

Day 100 closes with a line about losing fear. I meant it. Fear of calling myself a photographer. Fear of putting myself out there for people to see. Fear of how people viewed me. None of that is here anymore.

I built this for me. Most of what I make starts that way. It tends to resonate with others and become a net positive. That's what gets put back out in the world. Positivity and optimism.

If you struggle seeing yourself the way other people see you, this is for you. If you need to know that other people get through their struggles and make things on the other side of them, this is for you too.

— Micah