Karla's Big Head PhotoBlog

Big head Phil

2009-12-06T18:40:00.001+01:00

Big head Phil, originally uploaded by karlakp.

A night of partying in Oslo. Phil's big head and a disco ball...like a planet with a moon.

beautiful girl not so bighead

2009-07-26T16:15:00.002+02:00

I met this girl in 2006 in Cambodia, when I was wandering around the ruins of Angkor. This was in Ta Prohm temple. She was so pretty and curious. I showed her the picture I took with my camera screen and she pranced around like a supermodel after she saw it. Too funny.

Kraut Bighead with Camera

2009-02-22T15:58:00.001+01:00

Today is twofer day, as I haven't uploaded a pic in a while. This is a coworker of mine from a trip to Svalbard in the Arctic we took last August. Hmm, I should find the one he took of me, shouldn't I?

Rich's bighead in front of Notre Dame and street signs

2009-02-22T15:51:00.001+01:00

He very patiently lets me jump around and take these pictures. He's not quite as gracious when he finds them on this blog, but I like this one. Those signs are pointing right at his head!

screaming bighead

2008-11-09T14:20:00.003+01:00

That's me and my friend Keith. It was his "hmm hmm" birthday party. I don't remember why I was making that face, but I am posting this shot because it's very unusual that I allow myself to be photographed without a pose....I think Gilly (Keith's wife) got this shot on the sly.

Big Head Pictures!

2005-03-10T12:10:00.001+01:00

Welcome to my new blog.

Back story:

When my brother and I were kids, our favorite thing to do was to jump and hop on our parent's bed. (Eventually, as we got bigger, they got us a trampoline so we wouldn't break their bed, smart parents that they are!)

When jumping, we noticed that the lamps reflected our shadows on the wall, making us look way bigger than we actually were. Especially our heads. Our heads were huge.
So, being the 4 and 5 year olds we were we thought that was hilarious and started shouting "BIG HEAD! BIG HEAD!" whenever we jumped and saw our inflated craniums shadowed on the wall.

Big Head. It's just kind of funny.

So, it's been a family joke for years to take Big Head pictures. We have lots of them.

The rules are startlingly simple:

Your big fat head (and as a family, big fat heads are not in short supply with us) needs to be the focal point of the picture. It's best if your big fat head is posed with a large, recognizable monument, landmark, mountain or planet that looks smaller than your big fat head. Your big fat head should take up the majority of the frame, with something interesting behind. We need something to compare your big fat head with.

Get it? I'll be posting a Big Head picture every day or so. For starters, they will mostly be of me, or people I know. But I am sure you will get the idea pretty fast. Once you get the Big Head Mojo, send me your pictures of your big fat head, and I will post them if they pass Big Head muster. Just tell me who's big fat head it is (I am not picky about species of big head, by the way) and what it is posed with. (If you send anything OTHER than a big head picture, something with a FACE, not only will it be unceremoniously trashed, but you will also go to Blogger Hell and nasty karma will follow you forever until you die. So there, Karla does not brook naughtiness.)

Send them to me at:
karlagodwoman at yahoo dot com

Go take pictures! The world is waiting for your Big Fat Head!

sweaty big head in front of Angkor Wat

2008-09-17T20:33:00.003+02:00

When I was 9 or 10 I was obsessed with the family copy of Strange Stories Amazing Facts , this book put out by Reader's Digest. I read it forward and backwards, it was my Bible, I got it all manky and ruffled from so much poring over it. It was all about world history and the oddments of civilization, perfect for a history geek like me. From it I developed a yearning to travel and see places like Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Versailles, Venice, Stonehenge, Loch Ness, Karnak, Abu Simbel, Angkor Wat, Ephesus and Petra. So far I only have Petra left on the list.

I'm so freaking lucky. I always wanted to see those places, but never in a million years thought I would. Yet somehow things worked out so that I could. Damn. Amazing. And Strange.

Angkor was astounding, life changing, and I get to go again over Christmas.

when a bighead pic goes wrong

2008-08-23T10:31:00.001+02:00

Party time!, originally uploaded by karlakp.

This picture of me and Grant is an example of abject failure as applied to bighead photography. The general idea is to get the heads INTO the picture.

OK, yes, we were drunk.

Arctic Russian bighead with Swedish flag

2008-08-23T10:17:00.003+02:00

I was lucky enough to get to join in on a geological study trip to Svalbard, in the Norwegian Arctic. It was the trip of a lifetime, and I will never forget it. (Plus i celebrated my 40th b day there!) The thing that made this experience beyond special was the people, my coworkers.
This is my very sweet Russian coworker Evelyne, in front of the Swedish flag. (The boat we traveled on was of Swedish register.)
She always has a smile on her face, I've never quite met anyone with her golden sunny view of the world. She shoots the idea of the dour Russian straight to hell. Here's to Evelyne's big smiley head!

big head little Norwegian lake

2008-06-15T20:55:00.002+02:00

My big head in front of the Semsvannet in Norway. The lake is really quite large, quite gorgeous and one of my favorite places in the world. I walk around it frequently. See the tiny cow in the background? The cows there all wear cow bells. It feels so damned European, you know?

FYI I am wearing my Barton Creek Golf baseball cap and my beer Lao t-shirt.

Big head small coliseum

2008-05-23T22:52:00.002+02:00

Here's my friend David in Rome, sticking his big head into an otherwise lovely shot of the Coliseum. Cheeky monkey (he's British, they talk like that) had to sneak in the book just to make sure everyone knows how FABULOUS he is to be in Rome. Like, ok, I haven't been there yet, but am I bitter about it?

Yeah. Maybe a little.

Cheeky English git.

Neuschwangrant

2008-04-06T17:59:00.001+02:00

Neuschwangrant, originally uploaded by karlakp.

Big Grant, little castle. Neuschwanstein, March 2008

big head Lee

2008-03-16T19:17:00.002+01:00

There's Lee's big ol' Texas head.

bighead Mary

2007-10-12T17:32:00.001+02:00

bighead Mary, originally uploaded by karlakp.

in Prague in the mala strana section of town. She had NO idea what i was doing but did think I was crazy for doing it.

big head short doorway

2007-08-28T15:20:00.001+02:00

P8180173.JPG, originally uploaded by karlakp.

Good thing that sign warned him of the danger ahead.

This is in Krakow, Poland.

big statue head, krakow

2007-08-22T19:52:00.001+02:00

bigstatue head, krakow, originally uploaded by karlakp.

I know it's been a long time since i posted here, but I will rectiy that with this post. This is in Krakow, Poland. A gorgeous city.

kilroy

2007-04-15T18:14:00.000+02:00

My semi-bighead interrupting Rich's nice shot of the New Mosque in Istanbul.

Bighead Budapest

2007-03-13T21:22:00.000+01:00

Rich's bighead in Budapest, Hungary. This is along the river. The building behind is the Hungarian Parliament building.

Wicked big head Notre Dame

2007-03-02T19:07:00.000+01:00

This was done when I just held the camera out and clicked. It was really windy out. My piercing expression comes from the fact that I took my glasses off so could not actually see the camera lense clearly...I just hoped it was in the general direction in which I glared.

my godson

2007-02-18T19:39:00.000+01:00

bighead tallinn roofline

2007-01-12T12:20:00.001+01:00

bighead tallinn roofline, originally uploaded by karlakp.

Because, seriously, Look At The Light!
Seems a shame to have me in that picture ruining it...but you can go to my main blog to see it sans me.

big head big beer

2007-01-09T20:03:00.001+01:00

big head big beer, originally uploaded by karlakp.

Me and a Hoegaarden as big as my head in a bar in Tallinn, Estonia.

That makes me very happy. Very happy indeed.

your mother was a hamster.....Python bigheads

2006-12-25T09:43:00.000+01:00

Wow...seems my memory fails me. I know my friend Bonnie went to Spamalot, but I don't remember going myself.....

I must have had an awesome time, though.....

two big heads for the price of one

2006-10-23T16:32:00.000+02:00

This is my dad's big old head at the Spice Market in Istanbul. That's his Turkey hat. Everyone thought he was Turkish. Luckily he speaks the language fairly well. Isn't Dad handsome?

That's my head, in front of the amphitheatre in Ephesus. Wearing MY Turkey hat as well. I'm not as photogenic as my dad, but we all have our crosses to bear.

obedient

2006-10-08T18:57:00.000+02:00

Here's my big head making a muppet face under a sign telling me to wait. So I did.

Berlin, August 2006