Self Portrait 1

Nobody tells you how challenging yet satisfying self-portraiture can be. Sometimes there are things you can reveal to yourself through your camera which you'd not realized were there.
I took this at a pretty low point.
We had a few months earlier just moved to the US from India where I had spent a few years living with my wife and her family, and I was struggling to reconcile the person I discovered inside of myself while living abroad with the person everyone back in the US expected me to be...
If you've never taken serious portraits of yourself in a quiet studio with no distractions, It's a practice I would definitely recommend all photographers embark upon at least once per year.