Hanging with the Big Guy

I had a reminder why it is always important to keep my eyes, ears and heart open to possibilities for better pictures and situations. The assignment was to go to a fitting for helmets for triplets with plagiocephaly, commonly referred to as flat head syndrome. That's a pretty good assignment to get some interesting pictures, but it's pretty much based in a process of doing an activity, and I always want to find human elements and character in my pictures. I was told once: photograph adjectives and adverbs, not nouns and verbs. In other words, don't stop at getting a picture of "adjusting helmets". Try to find some human character. In other words, if there is a watch maker carefully cleaning a timepiece, don't get a picture of a man cleaning a watch. Get a picture of "Carefully". When Ami and Brian Bunch mentioned that they would be taking their kids to see Santa for the first time later in the day, I moved some things around to be able to go, because I thought there might be some neat moments. Ice-Man's look of "doubtfully, apprehensively" get closer to what I hope for in a picture. Besides, it's stinkin' cute.

Eight month old triplets Ethan, Hunter, and Colton Bunch, sit on Santa's lap for the first time at Park Place Mall Dec. 9, 2009 in Tucson, Ariz. The triplets have plagiocephaly, a condition of the flattening or deformation of an infant's head. Specially designed helmets help to guide the growth of the skull into a normal shape and position.