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Santa Shorts

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Santa Shorts
Photo-A-Day #1350

Today was a good day! Why? Well it started off with me recording a video reveal of the winner of BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!. You can watch the video below but I’ll tell you, the winner was Baba of Babas Farm Life. She is really excited and her Big Box of Awesome! is on its way to her as of 4:30pm today. She wrote a really nice post on her blog about winning and she gave me one of my favorite descriptions of my self ever. “Who is Ben Spark you ask? Just the funniest geek techno family blogger and wonderful photographer around the blogosphere.” It must have been the shorts. 🙂

Also in the mail is a broken ipod shuffle, it is going to JoeTech.com to see if he can fix it and then give it away on his blog. Cross your fingers.

The Big Box of Awesome! contest was so much fun, here are some stats on the contest. 29 other bloggers “revealed” items in the box. There were 42 items in the box. 39 were revealed online (one on Market Leverage TV too) and there were 3 additional items tossed in after everything was said and done. In the past month that post was the highest for pageviews. My readership increased by about 50 and I learned how to make use of many social networks to promote the posts that the 29 other bloggers wrote. I think this was a pretty successful contest seeing as I merely gave away items that I would no longer use. I learned quite a few things from this contest, most important was that bloggers are some damn nice people.

I took a few more photos tonight of Eva wearing daddy’s ho ho ho hat (type that on a Flickr note to get a Santa Hat to appear). And one really sweet one of Allison and Eva.

So Happy

To Big

It Fits

Oh and I have to explain the card. This was a Christmas card from Dina at Market Leverage. She sent it to me out of the blue, just like she offered to put one of my items on Market Leverage TV. Thanks Dina.

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Award Winning Photographer

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Award Winning Photographer
Photo-A-Day #1320

Yesterday I went to pick up my photos at the Bellingham Library. I hadn’t been there since I dropped off the photos. I just never got a chance to go to the library for the opening. When I walked in the woman there asks me if I was picking up photos, I was. Then she said okay they are on the wall just take them down and bring them here. I walked over and saw one of mine with a red ribbon next to it, 2nd Place. That was the photo from Photo-A-Day #1000 plus all the photos from my 1st 500 Photo(s)-A-Day in the background. Then I found my photo of the Oregon Farm and that too had a 2nd place ribbon with it. I said, “Huh, wow that is pretty cool.” The woman there heard me and asked if I had been there before to see all the paintings. I was embarrassed to say I hadn’t. I certainly should have been to the opening.

It was a small show but there were a bunch of people who entered. It gave me a little confidence to actually go out and try some other things. I’ll be entering more of these in the future.

Award Winning Photographer

Many people have inquired about a 2009 Photo-A-Day calendar. I will take a look at what I have from the past year and see if I have 12 photos I’d like to put into a calendar. Want to help me out? Take a look through my Photo-A-Day 2008 Flickr set and tell me your favorite 12 photos. Just Fav them on Flickr. If you can please spread the word about this through Twitter, Facebook, Etc.