two challenges

I set myself two challenges to go with my new camera - challenge one is to manage to take a self-portrait that actually looks like 'me' rather than someone else I've never met (as most of them do), the second challenge is to find a way of getting our enormous monster of a lime tree photographed in a way that really shows that it's bigger than big and not just a bit bigger than your average tree.
Today's blip is an attempt at one of the challenges. No prizes for guessing which one.