The Number One Way to Spice Up Your Selfies

Here’s a simple and effective way to spice up your selfies, especially travel selfies (or even if you’re social distancing): Look for a reflection.

For instance, when I was at the famed Sydney Opera House, I could have done the usual selfie thing, trying to poke my head into a shot, fumbling around until my face and the structure wound up in the frame at the same time. Instead, I aimed my camera at a set of large windows and ended up with this:

Reflection Selfie in Sydney

There’s me, at the Opera House.

Or when I was flying out of JFK once and wanted to show people what it was like, again I found some glass:

Reflection Selfie at JFK

So the next time you want to take a selfie, try something special and look for a reflecting surface. (As an added bonus, now you can use a real camera to take the shot if you want, and even with your phone you can use the usually-better rear lens.)

Here are two more examples:

Reflection Selfie at a Hotel in Jerusalem
Reflection Selfie at a Hotel in the Negev

Social Distancing

Even if you can’t travel, reflection selfies are a great tool at home, too. Just find something reflective:

Selfie in a Starbucks Cup

or wait until an amphibian ascends your window at night:

Selfie (with frog)

About J.M. Hoffman

A prolific writer and avid photographer, J.M. Hoffman picked up his first camera when he was eight years old. And even though he abhors a cliche, he never looked back. Acclaimed as a "master raconteur" who writes with a "flair" (Times Literary Supplement of London), Hoffman authored two non-fiction books and contributed to over a dozen others before writing The Warwick Files. He continues to write fiction and non-fiction. In addition to writing and traveling the world lecturing about his books, Hoffman has also directed a dance troupe, taught darkroom technique, and explored Patagonia on horseback. From time to time he can be seen playing table tennis poorly at the WTCC. He lives just north of New York City.

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