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Sorry. Not Sorry.

While I’m rediscovering the joys of Photoshop, you may get several posts like this one you’re staring at.

Below is basically the original image. Yes, a little color correction and eliminated some debris from the petals, you know how it is…


Flower from the Iowa State Fair.

Anyways, I wanted to play with some of the black & white settings in Photoshop and so I made this bad boy…


Changed to black & white and tinted slightly.

Anyways, I enjoy it.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 800
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08-22-2015 – 18:15
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5″
ALTITUDE: 188.31 meters

THE EXPERTS – WEEK 1 RESULTS

The first week of THE EXPERTS was a barn burner*! RMK edged DRE by 3 points in the tie-breaker to take home the Week 1 title. I did not award him a weekly prize though because he celebrated by saying something ridiculous about Kobe Bryant.

Here are the results, for those of you that weren’t scoring at home.

THURSDAY

SOUTH CAROLINA 17 NORTH CAROLINA 13
CDB – SOUTH CAROLINA – 1-0
JLB – NORTH CAROLINA – 0-1
RMK – SOUTH CAROLINA – 1-0
DRE – SOUTH CAROLINA – 1-0

OKLAHOMA STATE 24 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 13
CDB – OKLAHOMA STATE – 2-0
JLB – OKLAHOMA STATE – 1-1
RMK – OKLAHOMA STATE – 2-0
DRE – OKLAHOMA STATE – 2-0

UTAH 24 MICHIGAN 17
CDB – MICHIGAN – 2-1
JLB – MICHIGAN – 1-2
RMK – MICHIGAN – 2-1
DRE – MICHIGAN – 2-1

TCU 23 MINNESOTA 17
CDB – TCU – 3-1
JLB – TCU – 2-2
RMK – TCU – 3-1
DRE – TCU – 3-1

FRIDAY GAMES

Baylor 56 SMU 21
CDB – Baylor – 4-1
JLB – BAYLOR – 3-2
RMK – BAYLOR – 4-1
DRE – BAYLOR – 4-1

FORT DODGE 69 SIOUX CITY NORTH 0
CDB – FORT DODGE – 5-1
JLB – FORT DODGE – 4-2
RMK – FORT DODE – 5-1
DRE – FORT DODGE – 5-1

GILBERT 40 BOONE 37
CDB – BOONE – 5-2
JLB – GILBERT – 5-2
RMK – GILBERT – 6-1
DRE – GILBERT – 6-1

AUDUBON 31 IKM-MANNING WOLVES 13
CDB: IKM-MANNING – 5-3
JLB – AUDUBON – 6-2
RMK – AUDUBON – 7-1
DRE – IKM-MANNING – 6-2

SATURDAY GAMES

IOWA 31 ILLINOIS STATE 14
CDB – ILLINOIS STATE – 5-4
JLB – IOWA – 7-2
RMK – IOWA – 8-1
DRE – IOWA – 7-2

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 41 KANSAS 38
CDB – SOUTH DAKOTA STATE – 6-4
JLB – KANSAS – 7-3
RMK – SOUTH DAKOTA STATE – 9-1
DRE – SOUTH DAKOTA STATE – 8-2

NORTHWESTERN 16 STANFORD 6
CDB – STANFORD – 6-5
JLB – STANFORD – 7-4
RMK – STANFORD – 9-2
DRE – NORTHWESTERN – 9-2

TEXAS TECH 59 SAM HOUSTON STATE 45
CDB – TEXAS TECH – 7-5
JLB – TEXAS TECH – 8-4
RMK – TEXAS TECH – 10-2
DRE – TEXAS TECH – 10-2

UCLA 34 VIRGINIA 16
CDB – UCLA – 8-5
JLB – UCLA – 9-4
RMK – UCLA – 11-2
DRE – UCLA – 11-2

AUBURN 31 LOUISVILLE 24
CDB – AUBURN – 9-5
JLB – LOUISVILLE – 9-5
RMK – AUBURN – 12-2
DRE – AUBURN – 12-2

BYU 33 NEBRASKA 28
CDB – BYU – 10-5
JLB – NEBRASKA – 9-6
RMK – NEBRASKA – 12-3
DRE – BYU – 13-2

OKLAHOMA 41 AKRON 3
CDB – OKLAHOMA – 11-5
JLB – OKLAHOMA – 10-6
RMK – OKLAHOMA – 13- 3
DRE – OKLAHOMA – 14-2

KANSAS STATE 34 SOUTH DAKOTA 0
CDB – KANAS STATE – 12-5
JLB – KANSAS STATE – 11-6
RMK – KANSAS STATE – 14-3
DRE – KANSAS STATE – 15-2

TEXAS A&M 38 ARIZONA STATE 17
CDB – ARIZONA STATE – 12-6
JLB – ARIZONA STATE – 11-7
RMK – TEXAS A&M – 15-3
DRE – ARIZONA STATE – 15-3

NOTRE DAME 38 TEXAS 3
CDB – TEXAS – 12-7
JLB – TEXAS – 11-8
RMK – TEXAS – 15-4
DRE – TEXAS – 15-4

WEST VIRGINIA 44 GEORGIA SOUTHERN 0
CDB – WEST VIRGINIA – 13-7
JLB – WEST VIRGINIA – 12-8
RMK – WEST VIRGINIA – 16-4
DRE – WEST VIRGINIA – 16-4

ALABAMA 35 WISCONSIN 17
CDB – ALABAMA – 14-7
JLB – ALABAMA – 13-8
RMK – ALABAMA – 17-4
DRE – ALABAMA – 17-4

BOISE STATE 16 WASHINGTON 13
CDB – BOISE STATE – 15-7
JLB – WASHINGTON – 13-9
RMK – BOISE STATE – 18-4
DRE – BOISE STATE – 18-4

MONDAY GAME

#1 OHIO STATE AT VIRGINIA TECH – 7 PM (ESPN)
CDB – OHIO STATE – 16-7
JLB – OHIO STATE – 14-9
RMK – OHIO STATE – 19-4
DRE – OHIO STATE – 19-4

TIE-BREAKER

Iowa State 31 UNI 7
#1 (11)-CDB: CYCLONES 38 PANTHERS 3 – 17-7
#2 (13)-JLB – ISU 28 UNI 17 – 15-9
#3 (17)-RMK – ISU 26 UNI 19 – 20-4
#4 (20)-DRE – ISU 21 UNI 17 – 20-4

Remember if you wish to participate in Week 2, you need to email me your picks by the kickoff of the first game of the week. 7:30 PM. Thursday.

*No barns were actually hurt in this week’s challenge.

Tone

Recently picked up the most recent edition of Photoshop. The photo below is the result.


Playing with the HDR Tone settings in Photoshop.

Got a little crazy with the HDR toning, because that is what I do.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1000
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 18:15
NO GPS DATA

Vote Scottie D.!

Don’t forget that today is Election Day!

If you live in Boone, you need to get yourself to your polling place and vote for the guy below:



I would get into the details of his agenda, but my personal endorsement should really be enough for you.

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CAMERA: Samsung SM-G900V
FOCAL LENGTH: 4.8mm (35mm equivalency – 31mm)
ISO: 400
APERTURE: f/2.2
EXPOSURE: 1/20
NO GPS DATA

Gravity

A couple months back I went to Minnesota to visit Bethany, Becca, and Dae Hee. We spent one muggy afternoon visiting Minnehaha Falls.


I do plan on revisiting these falls in the winter this year. Hopefully. Better prepared. Hopefully.

PARTICULARS

FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm (35mm equivalency – 27mm)
ISO: 100
APERTURE: f/22
EXPOSURE: 1/3
DATE: 07-11-2015 12:07 PM
LATITUDE: 44° 54′ 55″
LONGITUDE: 93° 12′ 40″
ALTITUDE: 234 meters

The Experts Week 2

Here are the Week 3 games, in case you feel like participating.

WEEK 2 GAMES

TIE-BREAKER

IOWA AT IOWA STATE – SATURDAY – 3:45 PM (FOX)

THURSDAY GAMES

STEELERS AT PATRIOTS – 7:30 PM (NBC)

FRIDAY GAMES

UTAH STATE (1-0) AT UTAH (1-0) – 8 PM (ESPN2)

FORT DODGE DODGERS (2-0) AT WATERLOO WEST WAHAWKS (1-1)

BOONE TOREADORS (0-2) VS. HUMBOLDT WILDCATS (0-2)

AUDUBON WHEELERS (2-0) AT GRISWOLD TIGERS (1-1)

SATURDAY GAMES

KANSAS STATE (1-0) AT UTSA (0-1) – 11 AM (FS1)

OREGON STATE (0-1) AT MICHIGAN (1-0) – 11 AM (ABC)

EASTERN WASHINGTON (0-1) AT NORTHERN IOWA (0-1) – 1 PM (ESPN3)

UTEP (0-1) AT TEXAS TECH (1-0) – 1 PM (FOX)

LIBERTY (1-0) AT WEST VIRGINIA (1-0) – 2 PM

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN (0-1) AT #2 TCU (1-0) – 2:30 PM (FS1)

MINNESOTA (0-1) AT COLORADO STATE (1-0) – 2:30 PM (CBSSN)

#11 NOTRE DAME (1-0) AT VIRGINIA (0-1) – 2:30 PM (ABC)

#19 OKLAHOMA (1-0) AT #25 TENNESSEE (1-0) – 5 PM (ESPN)

MEMPHIS (1-0) AT KANSAS (0-1) – 6 PM (ESPN3)

CENTRAL ARKANSAS (0-1) AT OKLAHOMA STATE (1-0) – 6:30PM

LAMAR (1-0) AT #4 BAYLOR (1-0) – 6:30 PM (FSN)

KENTUCKY (1-0) AT SOUTH CAROLINA (1-0) 0 6:30 PM (SECN)

RICE (1-0) AT TEXAS (0-1) – 7 PM (LHN)

#7 OREGON (1-0) AT MICHIGAN STATE (1-0) – 7 PM (ABC)

#14 LSU (0-0) AT MISSISSIPPI STATE (1-0) – 8:15 PM (ESPN)

#23 BOISE STATE (1-0) AT BYU (1-0) – 9:15 PM (ESPN2)

SUNDAY GAMES

PACKERS AT BEARS – 12 PM

CHIEFS AT TEXANS – 12 PM

COLTS AT BILLS – 12 PM

SAINTS AT CARDINALS – 3:05 PM

LIONS AT CHARGERS 3:05 PM

RAVENS AT BRONCOS – 3:25 PM

GIANTS AT COWBOYS – 7:30 PM (NBC)

MONDAY GAMES

EAGLES AT FALCONS – 6:10 PM (ESPN)

VIKINGS AT 49ERS – 9:20 PM (ESPN)

2 Types of People

Two Types of People

A short story

By

Christopher D. Bennett

 

He wasn’t the type of person that was nervous about missing his flight, so he would get to the airport 45 minutes before his plane’s scheduled departure. He had a checklist in his mind of all the things that could possibly go wrong.

All the parking lots are full.

The line at ticketing was too long.

The line at security was too long.

He got selected for special screening by TSA.

Yet he could never really make himself care. It wasn’t just that he had made it despite cutting it a little close to departure time that gave him joy as he found an empty seat near his gate. It was that he was also the type of person that was a people watcher. There were few better places in the world than an airport for him to pretend that his fellow homo sapiens were in a zoo. Caught in their native lands and transported to this place for his amusement.

He even wished that he would be allowed to throw food at some of these people. He was also that type of person. The type that is smugly secure in his own sense of superiority. The type of person that some of his friends called an elitist.

He wondered, with a look on his face that certainly belied his thoughts to any observant person that was looking at him as if he was in a cage, why he found his other humans fascinating. They really shouldn’t be all that interesting. After all, there are only two types of people.

It was his paternal grandfather that had often looked at him and said, “There are only two types of people in the world. There are men and there are women.”

This phrase was often uttered by his grandpa when his grandma was on his grandpa’s case about helping her in the kitchen or because he had failed to complete some task that she had assigned him. It was a statement made out of love. His grandparents shared a special kind of love that he had never seen in any other people. He supposed that their special bond could only be forged in the fires of the Great Depression and World War II, but he also supposed that he wasn’t really sure what his grandpa was trying to say with this phrase. Other than men and women are different.

He did know that there were only two types of people.

  • Men
  • Women

Only he knew that he didn’t know that.

His maternal grandfather was a different type of guy from this paternal grandfather. His paternal grandfather was very calm and sedate. He thought long about decisions and was slow to act. His maternal grandfather was type of guy that would fly off the handle and make rash decisions. He would often have outbursts of verbalism that he would regret by the end of a day. He could be described as a scrapper. He was always looking for an angle. Not necessarily a con man, but he would definitely take every inch that he could.

He had a very vivid memory of his maternal grandfather negotiating a nickel off a pound of a cut of pig at a meat locker when he was a kid.  He and the clerk had a very heated exchange before the clerk gave him the nickel discount. At the time, it seemed the clerk waivered just to get rid of him.

After his victory, his maternal grandpa bent over and looked him in the eye and told him, “There are two types of people in the world. Those that get taken and those that do the takin’”.

It dawned on him that this meant that there actually had to be 4 types of people in the world.

  • Men that are takers.
  • Men that get taken.
  • Women that are takers.
  • Women that get taken.

While it was possible that all takers in the world are men and all the people that get taken are women or vice-versa, personal experience told him that this wasn’t true. There are definitely four and only four types of people in the world.

He stared across the terminal. The sun was blaring in through the windows on the opposite side of his seat. It made it almost hard to see.

An elderly woman across from him began digging through her purse. Her hairstyle reminded him of his mom. He hoped this lady didn’t suffer from some of the same peccadillos.

It was a position he couldn’t defend rationally, but it always bugged him that his mom salted her ketchup. Very clearly, he was very staunch in this position, the proper way to eat French fries is to salt the fries.

At 10 years old, in Mondt’s Diner he had come to this conclusion. He had never once remotely wavered on this position.

He and his mom had stopped there for lunch after his haircut one Saturday morning. They had bother ordered bacon cheeseburgers with a side of fries. His mom dropped a healthy amount of Heinz ketchup (at least she knew the proper amount of ketchup to use) on her plate and then picked up a green glass salt shaker and dispensed a way too large amount of NaCl on top of the red glob of goodness.

She had, he was certain, engaged in this abomination her entire life, but this was certainly the first time he had noticed.

“Ummm…. What are you DOING?!?” he stammered out.

“What?”

“That!” He pointed at her plate in disgust.

She gave him a quizzical look.

“You are putting SALT on your CATSUP!” When he was 10 he spelled ketchup, catsup.

“It’s good that way.” She paused. “You should try it.”

She grabbed the salt shaker and moved it menacingly towards his plate. He pulled his plate away from her and covered his ketchup with his hand to protect it.

She stopped. Put the salt shaker back on the table.

“Listen,” she started, “As you get older you are going to find that there are two types of people in the world. People that salt their ketchup and people who salt their fries. I’m telling you this now, but what you will have to learn for yourself is this… what does it say about a person, what they salt?”

It didn’t take long for him to cement in his opinion. The type of person that salts their ketchup is a bad type of person. His older sister had a boyfriend that salted his ketchup. He knew right away that this new beau was not a good person and he celebrated the day they had their last fight.

Hitler salted his ketchup. Now there is no historical evidence to suggest this, which he knew of, but he had no doubt that it was true.

He liked his mom. He was certain that she eventually would come around. But she definitely played in the realm of darkness when she salted her ketchup.

He guessed that must mean that there are actually eight types of people in the world.

  • Men who are takers and salt their ketchup.
  • Men who are takers and salt their fries.
  • Men who get taken and salt their ketchup.
  • Men who get taken and salt their fries.
  • Women who are takers and salt their ketchup.
  • Women who are takers who salt their fries.
  • Women who get taken and salt their ketchup.
  • Women who get taken and salt their fries.

That was it though. There are eight different types of people.

BZZZ!  BZZZ!

His Galaxy 6S rumbled in his pocket.  He dug into his pocket and stared at the screen. He had received a text message from his girlfriend.

“Where do you want to eat tonight?”

He had a direct flight home and she was picking him up from the airport. While he was pretty sure he might, maybe, kinda, sorta, love her. He did not want to have the where-do-you-want-to-eat-tonight-conversation.

He knew there was no way to win this conversation. He wanted pizza. He knew that no matter what he suggested first, she would want something else.

He texted back, “I don’t care. You can pick.”

She texted back, “I don’t know. Isn’t there anything you want? ;-)”

“Pizza?”

“I’m not feeling pizza.”

“Chinese?”

“Try again.”

He thought about it. Then something else occurred to him. Maybe the only two types of people in the world are people that can make decisions and people that cannot. His girlfriend definitely could not.

This seemed to be a good theory, but he knew that his two grandfathers and his mom were all wise people.

So the truth must be that there are 16 types of people in the world:

  • Men that are takers that salt their fries and can make decisions.
  • Men that are takers that salt their fries and cannot make decisions.
  • Men that are takers that salt their ketchup and can make decisions.
  • Men that are takers that salt their ketchup and cannot make decisions.
  • Men that get taken that salt their fries and can make decisions.
  • Men that get taken that salt their fries and cannot make decisions.
  • Men that get taken that salt their ketchup and can make decisions.
  • Men that get taken that salt their ketchup and cannot make decisions.
  • Women that are takers that salt their fries and can make decisions.
  • Women that are takers that salt their fries and cannot make decisions.
  • Women that are takers that salt their ketchup and can make decisions.
  • Women that are takers that salt their ketchup and cannot make decisions.
  • Women that get taken that salt their fries and can make decisions.
  • Women that get taken that salt their fries and cannot make decisions.
  • Women that get taken that salt their ketchup and can make decisions.
  • Women that get taken that salt their ketchup and cannot make decisions.

There are 16 types of people in the world. No more. No less. Although he could make a case that the type of person that salts their ketchup probably also cannot make decisions. Maybe there are only fourteen types of people in the world.

He texted back, “Getting on the plane. Will decide when I get in.”

He knew this was just punting the painful conversation down the road, but that was okay. Today he didn’t feel like being the type of person that made decisions.

As he put his Galaxy S6 back in his pocket a guy in skinny jeans and an ironic 80s band t-shirt sat in the seat next to him.

They exchanged a brief glance as if to say, “Hey, I acknowledge that we both exist and are sitting in close proximity to one another, but we don’t have to make a thing out of it.”

Then the guy reached into his pocket and pulled out his iPhone 6.

Great, he thought. This is that type of guy. An Apple fan boy.

Over the loud speaker a falsely cheerful female voice belted out, “Now boarding Zone 3 for flight 1576.”

Good, he thought, he didn’t want to be the type of guy that lied to his girlfriend. Even about little things. Even better since he didn’t want to sit any longer next to the type of guy he was sitting next to right now. Hopefully they weren’t anywhere near each other on the flight.

As he grabbed his carry-on he had one last thought, “That guy is probably one of the four kind of guys that puts salt on their ketchup.”

Capital or Capitol?

Over the years a few people have asked me to bring back the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Without giving the matter a second of thought, I’ve always immediately responded, “Go suck an egg!”

However, since I myself have struggled to take camera in hand quite a bit lately (including missing an awesome photo op with Naima and a squirrel recently) and the fact that I (as a man of the people) should try to give the people what they want.

Therefore, On September 14, I will bring the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE back. With it being a holiday and all that jazz, I will need some time to get my ducks in a row. If any of you have any duck wrangling experience, you know that this can be quite the ordeal.

I’ll publish all the rule and that noise on that date. Get your cameras or cell phones or selfie sticks ready.

Today’s picture…


The east side of the capitol on a rainy night.

If you are wondering, like just about every other picture I’ve posted lately, it was taken on the day I went to the State Fair.

PARTICULARS

FOCAL LENGTH: 10mm (35mm equivalency – 15mm)
ISO: 1600
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/30
DATE: 08/22/2015 – 21:00
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 29″
LONGITUDE: 93° 36′ 8″
ALTITUDE: 277.04 meters

The Experts: Week 1

For the last couple of years I have selected a collection of games and asked some of my sporting expert friends to give me predictions on the winners. Last year JLB ended up being the wisest of my experts.

I thought I would open the game up and see if more people wanted to participate.

The rules are pretty simple. Whomever has the best record, wins the week. Win the most weeks. Win the year. You have to give a score for the tie-breaker game. The first tie breaker is point differential. The second tie-breaker is total points. The third tie-breaker (although almost certainly an impossibility that we would ever go to that) is who I have ranked highest on my rankings of loyalty to the Cyclones.

I usually release the games on Sunday nights. I have my own formula for picking games.

The deadline is the start of the earliest game of the week. For example, this week the deadline is in 2 hours. So you probably won’t get in this week, but I’ll try to do better next week.

Below are this week’s selections by The Experts. However, reading these prediction will ruin the games for you, as you will now know what is going to happen, before it happens.

I may even give a weekly prize to the weekly winner. I may not. I am after all, what the poets would describe as, destitute.

TIE-BREAKER
UNI at Iowa State – 7PM (Cyclones.TV)

CDB: CYCLONES 38 PANTHERS 3 (Iowa State’s new defensive line wreaks havoc on UNI’s quarterback du jour, leading to 5 UNI turnovers and an easy Cyclone victory.)
JLB – ISU 28 UNI 17
RMK – ISU 26 UNI 19
DRE – ISU 21 UNI 17

 

THURSDAY

NORTH CAROLINA AT SOUTH CAROLINA – 5 PM (ESPN)
CDB – SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina celebrates being a slightly less racist state with the big win.)
JLB – NORTH CAROLINA
RMK – SOUTH CAROLINA
DRE – SOUTH CAROLINA

OKLAHOMA STATE at CENTRAL MICHIGAN – 6 PM (ESPNU)
CDB – OKLAHOMA STATE (Cowboys. Big.)
JLB – OKLAHOMA STATE
RMK – OKLAHOMA STATE
DRE – OKLAHOMA STATE

MICHIGAN AT UTAH – 7:30 PM (FS1)
CDB – MICHIGAN (Jake Ruddock gives Iowa fans something to talk about.)
JLB – MICHIGAN
RMK – MICHIGAN
DRE – MICHIGAN

#2 TCU at MINNESOTA – 8 PM (ESPN)
CDB – TCU (Horny Frogs by 24. The difference between a Big 12 and a Big 10 team.)
JLB – TCU
RMK – TCU (Huge.)
DRE – TCU (This ain’t even a game.)

FRIDAY GAMES

#4 Baylor at SMU – 6 PM (ESPN)
CDB – Baylor (Baylor and their lack of integrity crushes the Mustangs.)
JLB – BAYLOR
RMK – BAYLOR
DRE – BAYLOR (Briles)

SIOUX CITY NORTH STARS (0-1) AT FORT DODGE DODGERS (1-0)
CDB – FORT DODGE (Dodgers.)
JLB – FORT DODGE
RMK – FORT DODE (Streets.)
DRE – FORT DODGE

BOONE TOREADORS (0-1) AT GILBERT TIGERS (0-1)
CDB – BOONE (Da ‘Dors!)
JLB – GILBERT
RMK – GILBERT
DRE – GILBERT

AUDUBON WHEELERS (1-0) AT IKM-MANNING WOLVES (1-0)
CDB: IKM-MANNING (Ag Bowl champs pay the price for going up a class. Hoooooooowwwwwwlllll!)
JLB – AUDUBON (Champions of the Ag Bowl [if you don’t know, look it up])
RMK – AUDUBON (Rockets)
DRE – IKM-MANNING (Wolves)

SATURDAY GAMES

ILLINOIS STATE AT IOWA – 11 AM (Big Ten)
CDB – ILLINOIS STATE (The #2 team in the country waltzes into a half empty Kinnick and walks out with a 3 point win.)
JLB – IOWA
RMK – IOWA (Iowa always wins the first week.)
DRE – IOWA (Yeah, Iowa)

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE at KANSAS – 11 AM
CDB – SOUTH DAKOTA STATE (Go Jack Rabbits!)
JLB – KANSAS
RMK – SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
DRE – SOUTH DAKOTA STATE

#21 STANFORD AT NORTHWESTERN – 11 AM (ESPN)
CDB – STANFORD (Stanford is a trendy pick to win the Pac 12. Has the Pac 12 ever lost a game to a Big 10 team? They don’t start today.)
JLB – STANFORD
RMK – STANFORD
DRE – NORTHWESTERN

SAM HOUSTON STATE at TEXAS TECH – 2:30 PM
CDB – TEXAS TECH (Pretty Boy McGee barely gets by Sam Houston State.)
JLB – TEXAS TECH
RMK – TEXAS TECH (GQ)
DRE – TEXAS TECH

VIRGINIA AT #13 UCLA – 2:30 PM (FOX)
CDB – UCLA (The ACC is so cute. Steve Alford wins big!)
JLB – UCLA
RMK – UCLA
DRE – UCLA

LOUISVILLE AT #6 AUBURN – 2:30 (CST)
CDB – AUBURN (War friggin’ Eagle.)
JLB – LOUISVILLE
RMK – AUBURN
DRE – AUBURN

BYU AT NEBRASKA – 2:30 PM (ABC)
CDB – BYU
JLB – NEBRASKA
RMK – NEBRASKA (Cooter)
DRE – BYU

Akron at #19 Oklahoma – 6 PM
CDB – OKLAHOMA (Oklahoma by 35)
JLB – OKLAHOMA
RMK – OKLAHOMA
DRE – OKLAHOMA (OK OK)

South Dakota at Kansas State – 6PM
CDB – KANAS STATE (Kansas State wins by 17.)
JLB – KANSAS STATE
RMK – KANSAS STATE
DRE – KANSAS STATE

 #15 ARIZONA STATE AT TEXAS A&M – 6 PM (ESPN)
CDB – ARIZONA STATE (Didn’t Texas A&M get the memo! In the SEC you schedule Sun Belt schools exclusively! Sun Devils give them the message.)
JLB – ARIZONA STATE
RMK – TEXAS A&M
DRE – ARIZONA STATE

TEXAS at #11 NOTRE DAME – 6:30 PM (NBC)
CDB – TEXAS (Texas give longtime Longhorn fans like JLB and RMK false hope by getting over the Irish.)
JLB – TEXAS
RMK – TEXAS (Man. I guess TX.)
DRE – TEXAS

GEORGIA SOUTHERN at WEST VIRGINIA – 6:30 PM
CDB – WEST VIRGINIA (Georgia Southern nearly pulls the upset, but can’t get it done.)
JLB – WEST VIRGINIA
RMK – WEST VIRGINIA (Dana)
DRE – WEST VIRGINIA

#20 WISCONSIN vs. #3 ALABAMA – 7 PM (ABC)
CDB – ALABAMA (It ain’t close… son.)
JLB – ALABAMA
RMK – ALABAMA
DRE – ALABAMA (Sweet home.)

#1 OHIO STATE AT VIRGINIA TECH – 7 PM (ESPN)
CDB – OHIO STATE (Disappointed in JLB’s lack of faith in his Hokies. Buckeyes roll big. Fines for the entire VT squad.)
JLB – OHIO STATE (VTech; just kidding. Ohio State.)
RMK – OHIO STATE (Big.)
DRE – OHIO STATE

WASHINGTON AT #23 BOISE STATE ESPN – 9:15 PM (ESPN)
CDB – BOISE STATE (Broncos stomp Huskies.)
JLB – WASHINGTON (Washington easily over Boise State; in the Chris Petersen Bowl.)
RMK – BOISE STATE (Boring.)
DRE – BOISE STATE

Stay tuned for another exciting PHOTOGRAPHY 139 participatory announcement on the morrow!

Macrovision

I didn’t take any form of tripod on this trip to the State Fair, so I had to shoot pretty wide open.

So one gets this…


I think it was around this time that I thought about doing the thing that would ultimately get me in trouble, but I didn’t do it for quite a bit longer.

PARTICULARS

FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1000
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE TAKEN: 08/22/15 – 18:14
NO GPS DATA