This photo was one of my most popular images on Instagram last year. It was shared on over 100 hubs! Ironically, the concept of putting myself in the shot was almost an afterthought. It was one of the last images I took that night. By this point my partner and I had been out shooting for a while, and my feet were so cold that I had lost sensation in them. Being a Canadian girl I thought sandals on the beach were ideal footwear. I was wrong! Sandals may be ideal if you are on a beach in Hawaii, but in Oregon the water is so frigid that my feet literally froze.

Needless to say, I was ready to call it a night, but my partner asked me to stand in for his shot. I ended up taking three shots with myself in the scene before I hobbled back to the car to warm up my feet, and it was one of those three shots that ended up going viral!