What’s harder than getting a shy child to smile for the camera?

Try getting a grown man to smile naturally for the camera!

Today’s challenge is ‘smile’ and I knew I was in for a challenge when I saw it.

I knew Isaac was going to be my subject, whether he liked it or not, and I knew that he doesn’t like forced smiling for photos.

Don’t get me wrong, he smiles a lot, I was just going to have to catch him off guard if I wanted to get a real smile out of him.

We stopped at Gary Grant Soos Park. They have one of those fun round-a-bout/spinny things (what are those called?!) and Isaac hopped on.I offer you three of the photos I took of this.

Isaac on the whirly-gig thing. I'm sad to say he was spinning too fast for me to get clear photos of his face. I wanted him to keep going, but he was getting sick (so we'll be going back again soon :D...). Next time, I'll take a video too.

He took time to recover…

Isaac recovering from the whirly-gig

Then we tried again to take photos…

Attempt one

 

Attempt two

Attempt three

And we went home, where I made some fun smiley cutouts.

Isn’t he a good sport?