Some pictures from the old 2018 backlog again. These are the last pictures from the month of November to be published. Still some pictures from September and possibly pictures from October left to go. Then a handful of days in December to look at.
These pictures are, yet again, pictures from a trip to Dickcissel with Naima. Have a gander:
I can see the light at the end of the backlog tunnel! Please don’t be a train.
The pictures from the folder 2009-07-10 are all from an Ames on the Half Shell concert that featured by far my favorite artist that we ever booked. Her name was Bonne Finken and she was one of maybe 3 artists that we booked during my entire run with the Jaycees that couldn’t be described as generic classic rock cover band.
Listen, that isn’t an insult. There is nothing wrong with a classic rock cover band. They are usually pretty enjoyable to listen to, but they certainly don’t challenge you as a music enthusiast.
I’m terrible at describing her sound, but it both pop and rock and it is undeniably powerful. Bonne is still producing music, but she has moved on from this local scene. She moved to Tennessee. She released her third album earlier this year. It was produced by a member of Slipknot.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from Bonne Finken’s conert:
By adding these images to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” post to its original glory:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve flowers and sparklers, but not necessarily together.
Here is another post from the 2018 backlog. These are mostly pictures of Naima. I think they might have been alternates for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme the week they were taken. I’m not entirely sure and I’m not up to that level of soul searching and research.
There is still more in the 2018 backlog, but it is getting smaller every day. Well maybe not every day.
Hitting up the 2018 backlog again. Which is closing in on being finished!
These pictures are once again from Naima’s favorite hangout, Dickcissel Park.
I have had a few people ask me where Dickcissel Park is because while it is near some very busy roads, it is seemingly a forgotten treasure of Boone County. I am leery of disclosing its location because I don’t want thousands of people to start hanging out there. More times than not, Naima and I are alone out there.
There are a few times where we run into the odd fisherman. Maybe three times we’ve ran into other dogs. But usually it is just us, the ducks, the fish, sometimes deer, an occasional pheasant, plenty of rabbits, and not nearly enough snakes.
If you want to hang out at Dickcissel, it isn’t a park so much as a wildlife management area, it is located on the northwest corner of the junction of US Highway 30 and State Highway 17.
Here are some pictures:
Just a little backlog left!
I would be remiss if I didn’t start out this post to saying Happy Veteran’s Day. I don’t have a photo to back up these sentiment, so instead, let me remind you that veterans often struggle greatly when they leave the military.
The suicide rate for veterans of 35 per 100,000. The suicide rate for homeless veterans is 81 per 100,000. Veterans make up approximately 9 percent of all homeless adults.
Thanks to our veterans! They bear more scars than the ones that we can easily see.
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ORANGE once again proved to be a popular theme. For the 7th straight week, the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE brought in double digit submissions:
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:
Dawn Krause
Andy Sharp
Elizabeth Nordeen
Cathie Raley
Micky Augustin
Christopher D. Bennett
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Tamara Peterson
Michelle Haupt
Logan Kahler
Kim Barker
Becky Parmeleee
Carla Stensland
But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:
PURPLE! What a great theme! But what is a PURPLE picture? A PURPLE picture isn’t all that much different than an ORANGE picture. Only instead of ORANGE, it should incorporate the color PURPLE. This one might be a bit trickier as PURPLE isn’t as prevalent in nature as much as ORANGE is this time of year, but I have no doubt, that you will be able to find PURPLE somewhere in your life.
I look forward to seeing your interpretations!
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.
Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.
OR
I now allow people to text me their submissions. In the past, I had made exceptions for a couple people that aren’t real computer savvy, even though it was an inconvenience for me and required at least 3 extra steps for me. I am now lifting that embargo because I have a streamline way of uploading photos. I’m not giving out my phone number, but if you have it, you can text me.
It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.
That is it, them’s the rules.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and do better next week.
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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very purple Monday!
Hitting up that 2018 backlog for a few butterfly pictures I took last September at my Mom’s house.
I believe I’m down to 10 folders in the 2018 backlog. I might just get caught up at some point in the not too distant future!
On Monday night, I choked when I had a chance to show a person that has a real good chance to be the next President of the United States a picture of Naima. We both have irresistible golden retrievers and we had a moment there. However, Naima is supposed to be my background of my phone, but when I opened up my phone, it was a different picture. They told me that they were going to tell Naima that she had been replaced as my wallpaper.
I had my moment and I choked. To make a small amount of amends for this tremendous failure, I’m dipping into the 2018 backlog to share some Naima pictures. A couple of these are my among my favorite Naima pictures to date.
This collection concludes the August portion of the 2018 backlog!
Hitting up that 2018 backlog again. This is a collection of flower pictures I took in mid-August of 2018. Mostly sunflowers. A few of God’s other creatures sprinkled in for fun as well.
Would you believe that I am almost done with pictures from August of 2018? Well, it is true…
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This is your reminder that the theme for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is STILL LIFE:
A reminder that STILL LIFE photography is “used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects.”
Happy photo harvesting!
More from the 2018 backlog. This collection of pictures was taken at Dickcissel late in the day and are kind of lousy with digital noise, but some of them aren’t too bad.
Just gotta keep plugging away.
Going back to the 2018 backlog again. After this post, all of the July pictures have been edited and those that I have deemed worthy have been posted.
I probably have about 15 folders of images to go through and figure out to get the 2018 backlog officially hammered out.
These pictures are of hollyhocks and lilies from my backyard. A picture of a sunflower thrown in to boot:
Quite a few pictures in here that I really like. Possibly a 2020 Photography 139 Calendar image in there somewhere.
