Happy Sunday! Donna from WindKisses is hosting this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and her theme for this week had me thinking about it all day and still, I hardly have anything as cool as her photos – It’s Tricky.

I thought I’d cover all forms of the word TRICKY.

According to the dictionary, the word – TRICK – can be defined as a cunning or skillful act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone.

I shot this photo with my phone yesterday. I’d bet you’re wondering where I’ve gone or maybe I’ve gone to a lake over the weekend. Perhaps you might even be glad I finally went somewhere after being cooped at home due to the bad weather.

Nope, this is actually my neighborhood park – the one I always take walks in – and that, right there, is what happens when feet upon feet snow fall from the sky and the grass is screaming, “No more water!”

When I returned home to plant my potatoes, I found a pool of water on the patio next to a pile of un-melted snow in my backyard, uh oh…

Now, onto the word, TRICKY, which is an adjective and can be defined as (of a task, problem, or situation) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward.

I don’t know about you but I find taking selfies a tricky business. I’m one of those old-fashioned individuals who does not take selfies with my phone, ever. I don’t have the face for it. I feel it’s much too big and round like something that bombards a perfectly good photo. I totally prefer to have my portrait taken with a camera at a respectable distance unless you can make me look good close up. Unfortunately, no one has managed to take a good photo of me so far.

So there I was, on my solo trip in Capitol Reef, the sun was setting behind me but for some strange reason, I chose to take a backlit photo of myself. There were so many things that went wrong.

In the first photo, I was trying to balance myself when the photo was taken, making me in this awkward squat. I zoomed in a little bit on the second photo but missed the spot. The third photo looks okay if I move just a tiny bit to the left.

I think taking any kind of photo can be tricky sometimes. For me, it happens to be self-portraiture and portraiture in general. It’s definitely something to work on and maybe I should just make it my goal.