Meet Jim aka BusyDad or @BusyDadBlog.
I met Jim at BlogHer09′ when he handed me a Lego with this blog address on it. That Lego was his business card. He is creative like that.
Jim was a speaker at Blissdom this past week. I took this photo upon my first sight of Jim at the conference. I had to capture Jim wearing his Official Lisa Leonard Blissdom necklace. I used the Instagram app on my iPhone. This photo is priceless and may or may not haunt him forever. And Jim speaking, well that was priceless…and included bacon, unicorns, and ninjas, of course.
but that is ok, cause I’m not even done editing photos yet.
I’m choosing this for my Best Face in January for the I Heart Faces Photo Contest this week.
My son went on a field trip last week to The Centennial Farm at the Orange County Fairgrounds. He went with his kindergarten class. This was their first field trip and for many of the kids, their first time on a school bus. I stopped by and spent about an hour with the kids while they toured the farm. The farm is a 3-acre working farm.
My son was very excited. I laughed when he asked to go there again. I had to tell him, “umm dude, we go here every year during the Fair in the summer.” He replied, “I knew that, I was just kidding.” He says stuff like that all the time. “I’ve never been here before, this is soo cool.”
At the end of the tour, they went inside a room where the had baby chicks. The tour guide told them about how they have a fertilized egg and the yolk eventually turns into a baby chick. They all we given little baby chicks to hold. My son kept calling his chick a bird. It was hilarious watching the kids with these chicks. Some of the kids were completely freaked out, and I think some of the kids wanted to take the chicks home. It was all over though, when the chicks started to poop.
Be sure to check out other photos on I Heart Faces Photo Challenge this week, “Innocent Wonder”.
I’ve taken many memorable photographs this year. I photographed several events, and made my camera one of my best friends. I’ve been going through all of my pictures looking for that right one, “the one” that stands out. I love all of my beautiful friends, but for some reason, I just had to pick this one.
Angry Kid had a playground accident in early December and he needed stitches. These were his first stitches. But they were in a very significant spot on his forehead. A little over a month later, you can see a raised slightly reddish line on his forehead. I know that the bump will eventually go down, and the reddish will subside, but this was the beginning of something different.
He will always have this scar now, and a story to tell. I wish there was a really great story, rather than, he wasn’t paying attention and ran into a piece of playground equipment. I think we need to make up an epic story.
So there you have it, my “Best Face of 2010″. Be sure to check out the other “Best Faces of 2010″ over at I Heart Faces.
