Shannon assisted me with doing the photography for the Red Cross Young Heroes Banquet.

Here are some of the images:

There are a couple hundred more pictures in the Young Heroes Gallery in the Photography 139 Store:

American Red Cross – Young Heroes

It was a very interesting and inspiring night. It is amazing what so many young people are doing to make our world a better place.

It is time once again for me to to do a random look at some of the statistics on the website.

First up is what are the 10 Most Popular Images in the Artistic Gallery.

This one is actually somewhat of a shocker. A picture of Brandon has went from nowhere to be the most popular picture and the long time reigning champ Outburst of the Soul has fallen all the way to a tie for 6th Place. Although admittedly, I think spammers might have something to do with the rather large shakeup in the standings.

1. Brandon Senior Picture


2. Johnathan Senior Picture


3. Battered School Bus – Hamlin, Iowa


4. Self-Portrait


5. Jen Between Sets of an UnHingd Show


6. UnHingd Publicity Still


6. Outburst of the Soul


8. 1900


8. Becca – Senior Picture


10. Abandoned Piano – McCallsburg, Iowa

There has also been quite a shakeup in the Snapshots Gallery Top Ten.

Here are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Snapshots Gallery:

1. Me White Trashing It


2. ISUCFVMB


3. Alexis Cheerleading


4. Shannon and I at an Inebriated Saints Show


5. Jesse and I with the World’s Largest Cheeto


6. Logan’s Tree-man


7. Jesse and I at the Surf Ball Room


8. Jesse Endorsing the Bob’s Dog


8. 2010 ISU Spring Game


10. Shannon Reading Map at Backbone


10. Jesse and I in Clinton

Finally, a look at the Top Ten People to either contribute or be written about in An Artist’s Notebook.

1. Jesse – 163 – (+20)
2. Jay – 151 – (+7)
3. Shannon – 146 – (+6)
4. Derrick – 123 – (+6)
5. Teresa – 109 – (+13)
6. Jen – 107 – (+6)
7. Willy – 101 – (+8)
8. Sara – 96 – (+8)
9. Vest – 80 – (+19)
10. Dawn – 73 – (+9)

Wondering who the biggest movers were outside of the Top Ten?

1. Dad (+19)
2. Carla (+14)
3. Jill (+10)

In case you were interested in what the standings looked like 100 posts ago:

Journal Entry One-Thousand

The holiday weekend didn’t scare off everybody from submitting. Here are the submissions for HANDS:

Cathie Raley


Christopher D. Bennett


Shannon Bardole

I’ve been down to visit the Random Theme Generator for this week’s theme. This is what it gave me:

MOTION

A look back at last year’s MOTION submissions.

MOTION – 2010

I hope this theme is inspirational for lots of people out there.

Shannon – 9 Emotions

Shannon was 7th person to interpret the 9 emotions for me. A closer at Shannon’s interpretations.

Joy


Sadness


Anger


Amusement


Fear


Jealousy


Surprise


Sympathy


Boredom

Willy was the 8th person to interpret the 9 emotions.

Willy – 9 Emotions

A closer look at Willy’s interpretations:

Joy


Sadness


Anger


Amusement


Fear


Jealousy


Surprise


Sympathy


Boredom

Next week’s Personal Photo Project of the Week will feature the Brooklyn Bridge.

Think Negative

There were two points to this project. My first point was that I wanted to scan a negative. In this day and age, it is a borderline revolutionary act to use film. Unfortunately I have let too much time and space get between me and my film camera(s). This is an injustice that I hope to remedy this year.

My first point was to make sure the viewer knew that this picture was taken with film. However, initially I felt that just scanning a negative so you knew it was a negative wouldn’t be enough. This lead to my 2nd point.

I was going to hit these negatives with a hammer. This is somewhat loosely based on something I did a long time ago when I printed a picture and then crumpled it up and then rescanned the picture.

However, this photo project lead me down several different avenues and in the end hitting the negatives with a hammer didn’t really produce the result I was looking to produce.

Here are some of the other images and other avenues I ventured down.

I did point out to everybody that I photographed that I would be hitting their picture with a hammer and not to be offended by that fact. Amazingly none of them were.

Next week I’ll return to publishing pictures from the 9 Emotions Project. Jesse and Jay are next up in the hopper.

SILENCE did not keep people from being silent. There were a healthy amount of submissions this week. Here are the submissions for SILENCE:

Dawn Krause of Impassioned Versifier


Geri Derner


Christopher D. Bennett


Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey


Carla Stensland


Mike Vest of Waxen Media

Mike and I fired up the Random Theme Generator and it fired out a kind of consumerist theme for this week:

MARKET

You can take a look back at last year’s submissions for MARKET by clicking on the link below:

MARKET – 2010

It is a good broad theme that might push the comfort levels of some people. I hope this is another great week for participation!

Year 2 started out with a bang! Lots of submissions! First time submitter! Welcome aboard Alicia Vermeys!

Here are the submissions for REFLECTIONS:

Christopher D. Bennett


Alicia Vermeys


Dawn Krause


Julie Johnson A


Julie Johnson B


Mike Vest


Shannon Bardole

Dawn Poetry Submission:

Reflections

She can’t be too careful anymore,
Her memories have opened up that door.
Watching the tide bury her castle,
Wasted dreams are now just a hassle.

Who she once was when she ruled the world,
That girl is gone, reality unfurled.
Demons in the people she has met,
Subdued emotion, hearts do forget

A bitter thought will eventually melt,
After all the suffering is dealt.
Time to build new castles in the sand,
Learn from the past, take time by the hand.

I’ve been to the cave that houses the new and improved Random Theme Generator. The new generator is fancy and shiny and… it doesn’t work. So I walked over to a different cave and fired up old reliable. It did not disappoint. Here is the theme for this week:

LONG EXPOSURE

This is one of the technical themes. It is hard to set a real value on what is a “long exposure”, but I would say at a minimum, the shutter speed should be longer than 1/15 of a second. I would recommend trying an exposure of at least a second, but as always, you are free to interpret the theme in whatever way you see fit.

A look back at last year’s LONG EXPOSURE submissions:

LONG EXPOSURE – 2010

It is hard to believe that this journal has reached entry 1,000.

Since I enjoy rather meaningless statistics, I’m going to go over a few right now.

According to how many times they have been viewed, these are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Artistic Gallery:

1. Gazing Ball Self-Portrait


2. Outburst of the Soul


3. Jen Between UnHingd Sets


3. UnHingd Publicity Still


5. US30 East of Ogden


6. 1900


6. Abandoned Piano – McCallsburg


6. Becca Senior Picture


9. Grizzly McAlpine


10. Obama Political Rally


10. Campanile Self-Portrait

These are the 10 Most Popular Snapshots Gallery Pictures:

1. Jesse and I with the World’s Largest Cheeto


2. Jesse and I Backstage at the Surf Ballroom


3. Jesse Eating a Bob’s Dog


4. Shannon Reading a Map at Backbone State Park


5. Jesse and I at Eagle Point Park


5. Cousin Amy, Sara and Jen at Bonne Finken Concert


5. Jesse Kissing the Blarney Stone in Emmetsburg


8. Jesse Onstage at the Surf Ballroom


8. Jesse and I Resting at the Sargent Floyd Monument


10. Some Kind of Deal Going Down at a Bonne Finken Concert


10. Sara and Jen at Bonne Finken Concert

The Top Ten People I Write About, Photograph or Contribute in Some Way (Tagged in Journal Entries):

1. Jay (144)
2. Jesse (143)
3. Shannon (140)
4. Derrick (117)
5. Jen (101)
6. Teresa (96)
7. Willy (93)
8. Sara (88)
9. Baier (65)
10. Dawn (64)

Of course, we will revisit these numbers and pictures in about 100 or so journal entries. Of course, it will be interesting to see what has changed!

It is the end of Year 1 for the Random Weekly Photo Experiment. The final theme was EYE. Here are the submissions:

Becky Perkovich B


Christopher D. Bennett


Shannon Bardole


Mike Vest


Becky Perkovich A


Dawn Krause


Scott Krause

The themes for this year have been slightly modified, but it remains mostly the same list. Here are a list of this year’s themes:

GO
Adventure
Calm
Colorful
Communication
Depth of Field
Diagonal Rule
Black & White
Dry
Explore
Eye
Face
Fast
Feet
Food
Framing
Hands
Harmony
Hope
Leading Lines
Light Placement
Long Exposure
Love
Macro
Market
Motion
Odd Camera Angle
Painting with Light
Panning & Camera Blur
Paths
Animal
People
Noise
Reflections
Night
Rule of Thirds
Self Portrait
Shadows
Signs
Silence
Silhouettes
Smoke
Soothing
Spiritual
Still Life
Strength
Symmetry and Patterns
Unfocused
Use of Space
Viewpoint
Wet
Games

The Random Generator has spoken for this week’s theme:

REFLECTIONS

There is still only one rule. The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. The deadline for submissions remains Monday at Noon.

Good luck this year!

There were more submissions for PEACE OF MIND than I expected with the business of the holiday season. That is pleasing to me. Here are the submissions:

Christopher D. Bennett


Dawn Krause


Mike Vest


Shannon Bardole

So it has come down to one final theme. Then this project has officially ran its course. 52 weeks. 52 random pictures.

Here is the final theme:

EYE

I think this is a great theme to end year 1 of this project on. It is a very broad theme. Everybody has an eye or two. Everybody knows at least 1 person with an eye or two. There is a holiday this week, but it is a meaningless holiday, so I hope there are plenty of submissions.