Loopin' Louie | Image | BoardGameGeek

Mark Hamburg

(m_hamburg)

United States

I thought that this image captured the spirit of my two-year-old playing her favorite game. If you look closely, you'll note that Louie is in the process of claiming one of her chickens and her hand isn't even on the paddle, but she doesn't care. She can play the game more or less right, but doesn't always feel like doing so. Her five-year-old sister (to the left) is an ace at it, though.

I tried to stage a photo like this and had no luck, but caught this one by chance. Of course her hair looks like she just finished a ride in an open cockpit plane, but that's always the way it is at this age!

You can read about her first experience with this game here:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/237497

Edited Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:01 pm
Posted Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:04 pm
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Brandon Pennington

(TGov)

United States
Springfield
Missouri

If your orange juice doesn't burn on the way down, then you need more vodka!

wow, great pic

I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to play Loopin' Louie with me

That picture looks like a catalog photo the way it is staged! Great work!

Posted Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:17 pm
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JessA

(Jatoha)

United States
Southwestern
Michigan

Fox by Miss Turtle Artist, now the Mockingjay and furthermore, I think tipping in GeekQuestions should be fixed.

I love this picture so much. Your daughters are gorgeous.

Posted Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:22 pm
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Mark Hamburg

(m_hamburg)

United States

TGov wrote:

wow, great pic

I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to play Loopin' Louie with me

That picture looks like a catalog photo the way it is staged! Great work!

Jatoha wrote:

I love this picture so much. Your daughters are gorgeous.

Thank you both for your kind comments!

Posted Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:52 pm
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Erik Gibbons

(Gibbo)

United States
Western Washington
Washington

I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight! Yahahahahaha!!!

Awesome dude. I just glanced at the picture queue and saw your kid, pure chance. Of course you took 300 pictures to get this one, right

Edited Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:11 pm
Posted Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:38 pm
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Mark Hamburg

(m_hamburg)

United States

Gibbo wrote:

Awesome dude.

Thanks! Glad you liked the picture, since you're the one who introduced her to this game.

Quote:

Of course you took 300 pictures to get this one, right

I did take a bunch, but this was the first one and was really just good luck- while they set up the game, I went to get my camera. I saw them playing when I came back and snapped this from outside the room before they noticed that I had the camera.

Then I went in with them and tried to arrange the game, fix the kids hair, and get the lighting for the "right" shot. Those pictures were all horrible.

I like to plan my pictures, but with kids, I think you just shoot a bunch and hope you get something good. I'm very thankful for digital cameras- I'd go broke developing all of my bad shots without them.

Edited Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:14 pm
Posted Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:13 pm
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Bulldozers

(bulldozers)

United States
Crystal Lake
Illinois

Awesome! Cant wait until I can game with my two year olds.

Posted Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:25 pm
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Kurt Keckley

(p38_Lightning)

United States
Bakersfield
California

The flip in her hair is simply perfect. cool

Posted Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:03 am
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Jenny Nguyen

(smittenkitten)

Australia

NSW

That photo is so beautiful (and looks a lot better than the ones of children pulling really artificial expressions on the back of board game boxes)!

Posted Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:06 am
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Raúl Lopezosa

(csibadajoz)

Spain
Almendralejo
Badajoz

Great photo !!!

My baby has 2 years and 3 month, and he is still to young to play this game, but he likes looking at it moving around.

I am hopping about his next birthday; until that me and my friends will continue testing this game.

Posted Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:06 am
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Mark Hamburg

(m_hamburg)

United States

bulldozers wrote:

Awesome! Cant wait until I can game with my two year olds.

Thanks - you'll be gaming with them sooner than you think!

p38_Lightning wrote:

The flip in her hair is simply perfect. cool

After trying to get a posed photo, I agree. Two-year-olds let it all hang out, and this kind of captures that. That's not what I was trying for, but I'm glad that it's what I got.

smittenkitten wrote:

That photo is so beautiful (and looks a lot better than the ones of children pulling really artificial expressions on the back of board game boxes)!

Thanks! I can't get my two-year-old to pose on demand, so any expressions I get from her are the real thing (and they're not all this happy).

csibadajoz wrote:

Great photo !!!

My baby has 2 years and 3 month, and he is still to young to play this game, but he likes looking at it moving around.

Let him try it! My daughter was 2 years, 3 months when she first played. She didn't get it right (see my session report), but she had fun and felt like she was participating. And, as you can see from this photo, she still doesn't get it (at 2 years, 8 months), but she has fun. We do have to work to keep her from grabbing Louie, but she generally doesn't.

I think that gaming with two-year-olds is more about letting them participate in a family activity than actually getting them to play the game right in any sense of the word.

Edited Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:29 pm
Posted Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:24 pm
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Deacon

(will64)

Canada

Ontario

Love thy fate.

Your image captures the true essence of pure joy. I couldn't help but smile widely when I saw it.

Posted Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:33 am
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Diego Mascheroni

(Pinhead)

Uruguay
Montevideo
Montevideo

Beautiful picture and beautiful girls.

My 2 year old daughter loves to sit next to our group when we game with her cubes and toys, and sometimes she mimics what we do with her things .... it`s realy a candy .... kiss

Posted Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:37 am
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Peaceful Gamin'

(salish99)

Canada
Vancouver
BC

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