World's Best Father

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1/22 The photo that started it all: Dave Engledow took this photo as a joke three years ago to show how 'clueless, sleep-deprived and incredible exhausted' he was as a first-time dad.
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2/22 Beek-a-boo: Confessions of the World's Best Father is a humorous testament to our collective bewilderment as to how best to raise a child.
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3/22 What Dave Engledow thought was a humorous but innocuous attempt to capture the sleep-deprived obliviousness of being a first-time Dad became the sparkplug for a global phenomenon.
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4/22 While some of his photos, like this one, are what they seem, Engledow's more dangerous shots are the work of Photoshop.
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5/22 When friends and people online asked for more funny photos, the 34-year-old married man started getting creative with his photography.
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6/22 The photos are heavily edited, which can take anywhere between one to 20 hours.
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7/22 Engledow usually shoots his daughter, Alice Bee, first, before taking the photo of himself and editing them together.
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8/22 The photos, which started out as fun, have since spawned a calender and now a book.
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9/22 Engledow's wife and Alice Bee's mom, Jen, has started to make cameo appearances.
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13/22 Engledow hopes his daughter will soon start coming up with her own ideas so it can be a true partnership.
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14/22 Playing with fire: Engledow's photos are sarcastic and risque, without being controversial or offensive.
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15/22 The 'scrapbook' remains a hobby for Engledow, who works as the deputy director at nonprofit Working America.
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18/22 The response has been 'overwhelmingly positive', Engledow said.
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19/22 Engledow comes up with the photo ideas himself and said it is something he likes to share with his daughter.
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21/22 'When my daughter Alice Bee was born in 2010, I knew that I wanted to document her life creatively and put together a collection of photos that she would treasure as an adult,' Engledow wrote on his Kickstarter page.
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What started as one goofy picture taken by a bleary-eyed first-time father poking fun at his own cluelessness spawned a series that became a viral sensation and has now been published as a coffee table book.

But no one is more surprised at the success than the perplexed parent behind the project, Dave Engledow, who has been creating the playful images since the birth of his daughter, Alice Bee, who is now three.

'I always sort of thought – because I have a dark sense of humor – that if the photos ever did go viral the responses would be more negative,' the married man told People.

'But there's a lot of people out there who find humor in the unconventional'

The 43-year-old married man has made something of a career out of creating the wackiest dad-and-daughter scrapbook of shots with his little girl, who was six weeks old for the first, deciding photo, featuring the exhausted Engledow pouring baby's milk into his coffee.

With the key item of the first photo being the 'World's Best Father' mug, Engledow's brand was thus born.

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