This week’s picture comes from the following folder:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Friends/Multiple Friends
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Friends/Sir McAlpine
The Archives: Edition Ninety
Category Archives: Jen
365 Day Photo Challenge: 15-21
I have to confess that I did flop a couple (nearly all) of these days around for convenience and to work around special events. This is a practice I don’t condone, but one that I won’t shy away from in the future.
The 3rd 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge:
Day 15 – Simple
Day 16 – Arrow
Day 17 – Crossed
Day 18 – Food
Day 19 – Faces
Day 20 – Shopping
Day 21 – Hole
These are the themes for the next 7 days:
Day 22 – Fowl
Day 23 – At the Frame’s Edge
Day 24 – From Your Car Window
Day 25 – Pair
Day 26 – Path
Day 27 – A Group
Day 28 – Dream
I’m sure you are already speculating as to what I will do with these themes!
365 Day Photo Challenge: 8-14
The 2nd 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge:
Day 8 – Writing
Day 9 – 8 o’clock
Day 10 – Fruit
Day 11 – Faceless Portrait
Day 12 – Ring
Day 13 – Purple
Day 14 – Spoon
A special thanks to Willy for the assist on the ring picture. Also a special thanks to Jen and Derrick for loaning me the ring, 5 or 6 months ago.
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 15 – Simple
Day 16 – Arrow
Day 17 – Crossed
Day 18 – Food
Day 19 – Faces
Day 20 – Shopping
Day 21 – Hole
Blog No. 1447
Now that I am caught back up, I’d like to step back and take stock of where this journal has went since its inception on August 9, 2006.
Since the last time I looked at these statistics, I have completed changed galleries. I can no longer show you what are the most popular photos in the Artistic and Snapshot galleries. However, I can show you the most popular pictures in the Smugmug Gallery.
Here are the 20 Most Popular:
20. Statue of Liberty
19. Youth Group Mission Trip Group Photo – Kansas City – 2011
18. Evie
17. Drenched in Loneliness
16. Alice
15. Alice
14. Kewer Wedding
13. Young Heroes Banquet
12. Young Heroes Bandquet
11. Girl in the Blue Skirt Beta – 2011
10. Katelyn
9. Maddux
8. Maddux
7. Evie
6. Evie
5. Becky
4. Theories Pass
3. Must Be Truth
2. Turtle Pond Frog
1. Evie
You might be wondering what determines the popularity of a photo. Truth is, I don’t know all the details, but I can tell you what is the dominant factor. To quote the Smugmug website:
You can increase a photo’s popularity by moving your mouse over it and clicking the thumbs-up symbol that appears. You can cast one vote per photo.
You can also rate a photo or gallery with stars when you leave a comment.
There are other factors…like time. Photos from events past will usually be less popular than recent ones.
If you see a picture you like, you should take the 5 seconds to give it the thumbs up and maybe it will make the Top 20 list next time I do this little thing.
I also like to look at the Top Ten People that have been mentioned or photographed in the history of this journal.
10. Dad – 117
9. Carla – 118
8. Sara – 122
7. Willy – 124
6. Jen – 143
5. Teresa – 144
4. Derrick – 157
3. Shannon – 160
2. Jay – 180
1. Jesse – 195
Hope you found this at least moderately interesting. I’ll check back in on these things when I hit journal entry number 1,500.
Self-Portrait Project Week 17
I truthfully can say that none of these pictures were faked this week!
07/02/2012 – 8:19 PM (Happy Birthday Jen!)
07/03/2012 – 11:53 PM
07/04/2012 – 10:14 PM
07/05/2012 – 7:20 PM
07/06/2012 – 2:16 PM
07/07/2012 – 4:45 PM
07/08/2012 – 2:48 PM (Happy Birthday Jay!)
I am truly wondering if I will go any place fascinating this week!
Evie – 18 Monthish
A few weeks back I took some portraits of Jen and Derrick’s toddler Evie.
Here are a few of my favorites from that photo shoot:
Next week’s random Wednesday will involve my weekend in Minnesota.
Sadness Ensues
It is the time of year that is filled with sadness. Another college basketball season has come to an end. But despite the gloom that will set upon the land for many more months, it is a time of joy as well. We get to crown a new King of the Roundball Oracles. A new name goes on the plaque of immortals with these past champions:
Roundball Oracles Past Champions.
2011 – Carrie Baier
2010 – Mark Wolfram
2009 – Mark Wolfram
2008 – Mark Wolfram
2007 – Tim Peterson
2006 – William McAlpine
2005 – William McAlpine
The latest immortal is…
Lowell Davis
In the closes Roundball Oracle competition ever, Lowell beat Corey Faust on the tiebreaker.
I will be ordering Lowell’s trophy soon and will be presenting it to him in the very near future. I’m sure there will be photographic evidence to back this up presented in this forum in due time.
Another reason why it was a good year for the Roundball Oracles is that we set a new record with 29 combatants. Shattering the previous participation mark by several people.
Without further adieu, here are the final standings of the 8th Roundball Oracles Challenge:
Rank/Name/Points/National Title Choice/Last Year’s Finish
1. Lowell Davis – 275 – Kentucky – 13th
2. Corey Faust – 275 – Kentucky – 6th
3. Jason Baier – 265 – Kentucky – 5th
4. Angie DeWaard – 255 – Kentucky – DNP
5. Robert Henning – 245 – Kentucky – 8th
6. William McAlpine – 236 – Kentucky – DNP
7. Mark Wolfram – 235 – Ohio State – 15th
8. Jason Stensland – 229 – Ohio State – DNP
9. Dawn Krause – 228 – Kentucky – 4th
10. Jesse Howard – 225 – Kentucky – 2nd
11. Jon DeWaard – 222 – Kentucky – DNP
12. Derrick Gorshe – 220 – Kentucky – DNP
13. Nader Parsaei – 216 – Connecticut – 14th
14. Jackson Faust – 214 – Michigan State – DNP
15. Bill Wentworth – 211 – North Carolina – DNP
16. Tim Peterson – 209 – Kansas – 11th
17. Mike Donner – 206 – Michigan State – DNP
18. Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 199 – North Carolina – DNP
19. Michael Augustin – 196 – North Carolina – DNP
20. Carrie Baier – 194 – Michigan State – 1st
21. Shawn Lockner – 189 – Baylor – DNP
22. Russell Kennerly – 176 – North Carolina – 9th
23. Shaun Kirsch – 175 – Iowa State – 16th
24. Teresa Kahler – 173 – Iowa State – DNP
25. Yours Truly – 164 – North Carolina – 7th
26. Toby Sebring – 157 – North Carolina – DNP
27. Brandon Kahler – 142 – Kansas State – DNP
28. Jordan Toot – 119 – North Carolina – DNP
29. Becky Perkovich – 0 – Undecided – DNP
Some people might think that I need to explain why somebody with my nearly infinite basketball knowledge could have fared so poorly, but I will not defend my lowly ranking. Truth is that my goal is just to beat Russell and the fact that I didn’t this year means that I will have to try harder next year. I cannot let RMK get the best of me two years in a row!
Even though the dust has barely settled on this year’s NCAA tournament, I am already very excited for next year’s season. I think that the Cyclones will be even better next season and I can’t wait to see them prove me right. I guess until the season begins anew, I will look forward to the Spring Football Game that is only days away!
Personal Photo Project of the Week #105
Valentine’s Day 2012
If I were in the frame of mind to send out Valentines this year, it would have involved this picture. Of course, I wasn’t in such a state of mind, so you get to see it late, but as they say, that is life.
I also played with trying to set a heart shaped sucker on fire, but it turns out that it is really hard to set a sucker on fire AND the sucker didn’t really look like a heart.
This more abstract image of a heart is the other image I played with before I packed up all the conversation hearts and gave them to Jen. She actually enjoys these bits of nastiness.
On a sidenote, Jen says that if you put a piece of bread in the container with conversation hearts that have gotten too hard, they return to being “edible”. Derrick did not comment while she explained this to me.
The Archives: Edition Fifty-Four
The images below came from the following folder:
Backup/My Pictures/Misc/Camping
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/My Pictures/Misc/Fireworks
Evie: 1 Yearish
Truth is that I probably don’t have enough photos taken to fill out all the Random Wednesdays that I have missed over the last couple of months. I have had to turn down numerous gigs and it shows in my lack of photos that I have taken.
Probably my best chance to fill up many of these open weeks will be to break up all the photos of Naima that I have taken. But I don’t know that I’ve taken enough of those pictures, but I’ll make a game effort.
The pictures for this journal entry are of Derrick & Jen’s little angel Evie taken when she was a little more than a year old.
I look forward to the next time Evie needs a photo session!