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Photo-A-Day

Queen Smooshy Face – PAD #1002

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Photo-A-Day #1002

Today we took Eva out for a stroll around the block. It was a bit cold so we bundled up our own little Queen Smooshy Face (a nickname I gave her in those moments of parental creativity). She has this cute snowsuit that is a pink teddy bear and then a green hat and mittens. She was not going to get cold at all. ‘QSF’ enjoys facing outwards when she goes for a walk, she wants to see the world. So Allison wears a baby sling that can be used in may different configurations. Here is a photo of the two of them on our walk.

Pack and go.

While we walked I took my camera, of course, and while we walked I thought about Trevor Carpenter’s newest challenge, the 2008 Challenge. For that he is asking people to go out and take photos of their communities and post the best photo of the week. I’m not sure I can commit to that and probably won’t but I applaud anyone who decides to do so. Here is a photo from the downtown, I liked how the light hit the windows of the building, we have some interesting architecture in the town.

Downtown Light

I’ve gotten a ton of traffic lately from Entrecard and I’ve entered a bunch of contests there. Each day I’ve gotten my 300 credits from my card drops and I’ve gotten additional ones from people dropping cards here as well. And after little over a week it costs 134ec to advertise on this blog. That is pretty sweet and it puts me very close to the #1 photography spot. There are also a bunch of contests going on at blogs that use Entrecard and I’ve entered a ton of them. I wish I had started this as soon as I got back from Blog World Expo. I am also working on a list of 300 blogs to go to each day and drop cards.

Photography

The Rolling Exhibition.com

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Last night Allison and I watched 20/20 because of a story about Kevin Michael Connolly. Kevin was born without legs. When you are tooling around the world on a skateboard with no legs then you get a lot of stares. As Kevin said during his interview on 20/20 he would certainly be staring at a guy with no legs if he saw one. He turned those stares into an amazing art project called The Rolling Exhibition.

Kevin rolls along all over the world on his skateboard shooting by instinct. He doesn’t look through the viewfinder but rather he holds the camera at ground level using a wide angle lens and snaps as he goes and has captured over 32,000 images of people staring at him. His photos are very interesting and what’s more are the stories that people conjure up about what they think happened to him. Kevin says that people have all made their own stories up about why he has no legs from being attacked by a shark to being an Iraq war veteran. But he’s just a regular guy who was born without any legs.

Kevin’s story is pretty amazing, you can find out more about him at his website or the rolling exhibition website.