It's meant to show stress. Since I didn't have anyone on hand to pose
and I despise self portraits (of myself) I just went for a picture of
me squeezing a stress ball.
I used gimp to duplicate a layer and pick out the ball in colour.
There wasn't that much contrast with the skin tone, plus I guess I was
trying to make hand look more dismal with the black and white. Taken
with flash in front of my favourite bed sheet (and on auto since it's
hard to focus with one hand). I should really get a tripod.
goitixo, EJO - European Journalism Observatory, pocket-full-of-sunshine, Natalie Priester, and 28 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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HollyJalopy 4 months ago | reply
Thanks for the photo! It'll be up for a few days in our homepage slider on community.spiceworks.com/
fe.meow 4 months ago | reply
Hey! Thanks for making such an effective photo available on CC. It's used here in this post about Stress vs Guilt: bit.ly/UVRoc6
sbabzy 3 months ago | reply
Hey- We used this here sbabzy.com/personal-development/
Thanks a million!
antoniakmj88 2 months ago | reply
hey! I'd like to use ur image in my health and wellness blog - and im not sure how u'd like to be credited?!