Category Archives: Black & White

Black & White, Derrick, Evie, Formal Portrait, Jill

2011-02-09

October 16, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The images in the folder 2011-02-09 are actually taken on film. They are double exposures. I love double exposures. Yes, you can certainly fake double exposures with Photoshop and some digital cameras will do them. In fact, I need to get back into that. In fact, I need to run some film through a camera. I honestly haven’t done this is several years now. It makes me sad to think about.

Here are the pictures in the folder 2011-02-09.

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #56

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT again.

Art, Black & White, Christianity, History, Road Trip, Ruins, Shannon

Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1

October 13, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

A few weeks back I travelled around Warren County with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip:

Indianola

Ackworth

Beech

Milo

This would be a great idea for people like my neighbor Stan.

I love that Milo took memorial benches up to an 11!

Lacona – Breakfast purchased the day before at Rinehart’s.

Liberty Center

The Town Sign Project Auxiliary Images gallery now houses over 1,000 images! To take a gander, click on the link below:

Town Sign Project Auxiliary Images

There is at least one more collection of images from this trip coming. Probably two.

Black & White, Derrick, Formal Portrait, Jen

2011-02-06

October 9, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

I’m still trying to piece together a folder of 2011 images that make sense. The pictures in the folder 2011-02-06 are from when Jen and Derrick posed for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. I still need to fire this project back up and get more victims… err models.

Here are the pictures in the folder 2011-02-06:

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #59

The next time we take a stroll down memory lane it will involve actual film photography.

Art, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Carla, Christianity, Flowers, History, Nature, Road Trip, WPC - Reminder

BUTLER COUNTY AUXILIARY IMAGES VOL. 2

October 8, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

This is the final collection of auxiliary images I took while on a road trip with Carla to Butler County to harvest their town signs.

Clarksville

If you aren’t down with Mollie B, you aren’t down with me.

Allison

Greene

Aredale

Bristow

Butler Center

Ackley

I plan in great detail the order in which I will harvest the town signs on these trips, but I don’t really plan for other stops. I like these trips to be as organic as possible and to be surprised at the things I find. One of the most amazing discoveries on this trip was that memorial garden/park we found in Bristow with the little chapel. I had no clue it existed and I was so glad we found it.

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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is TIME:

TIME

What exactly is a TIME photo? In a way, all images are a TIME photo because all pictures record a little slice of TIME that will never ever happen again. Your challenge is to figure out how to capture that slice of TIME. Will you use a quick shutter speed to freeze TIME? Will you use a slow shutter speed to make TIME seem more fluid? Will you be more literal and like the theme reveal image take a picture of a TIME recording device?

Happy photo harvesting!

Art, Black & White, Carla, Christianity, Nature, Road Trip, Ruins

Butler County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1

October 3, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

A few weeks back I tooled around Butler County with Carla harvesting their town signs. I’ve already shared pictures from the beautiful garden in New Hartford. This is a collection of other images I took on the trip.

I have so many questions.

Aplington

I have questions about the hours.

Parkersburg

New Hartford

Shell Rock

I’m not on Boone’s Art Council and I am not privy to their budget or plans, but I think something they could do that would be cool would be to restore the old faded advertising murals in Boone. You can see how cool they look in Shell Rock. There are at least 2 in Boone I can think of off the top of my head that haven’t been painted over that would look great repainted.

There will be one more collection of pictures from Butler County in the future.

Angie, Black & White, Formal Portrait, Macro

2011-01-29

October 2, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

The pictures in the folder 2011-01-29 are of Alice when she turned 6 months old.

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory:

Alice at Six

The next time we take a stroll down memory lane it will involve Derrick and Jen.

Black & White, Cousin Amy, Formal Portrait, Sara

2011-01-27

September 25, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

I’m trying to piece the 2011 archives together across a few different hard drives. I know I have definitely lost a bunch of images in 2011, but I’m always discovering some that I thought were lost but really aren’t. In the folder 2011-01-27 are the first set of pictures I ever took for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. It is a project I keep saying that I’m going to visit again, but then, I just never do. I’ll get to it. I just need to find more friends that like having their picture taken.

Here are the pictures from the folder 2011-01-27:

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #54

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #57

The next time we walk down memory lane, it will involve a 6 month old.

Art, Black & White, Road Trip

Sac County and Ida County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2

September 22, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

Here is the second of three collections of pictures I took while tooling around Sac and Ida County with Teresa harvesting their town signs.

Battle Creek

Cushing

Holstein

The next picture is of the top of this building that no longer stands

Galva

Schaller

Early

Newell

The unfortunate mashup of my love for outhouses and my disdain for the comedic stylings of Daniel Whitney.

There is one more collection of pictures from this road trip in the hopper.

Black & White, Carla, Cousin Amy, Derrick, Elainie, Geri, Jason, Jen, Jill, Mom, Sara, Scottie D., Shawn Lockner, Still Life, Teresa

01JANUARY2011

September 18, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 I seem to have lost a ton of pictures. I’m grouping all the pictures that are in the folder 01JANUARY2011 together for this post:

WEEK 1 - REFLECTIONS - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

RWPE Y2 #1: REFLECTIONS

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #53

RWPE #52 – EYE

RWPE Y2 #2: LONG EXPOSURE

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #49

I’m not sure what next week’s walk down memory lane will cover. My files from 2011 are a complete mess. Just a complete mess.

Animals, Basketball, Black & White, Boone FUMC, Formal Portrait, Iowa State, Night, Photoshop, Self-Portrait, Still Life

12December2010

September 11, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

I didn’t take many pictures in the month of December in 2010, so I decided to just do the entire month and combine all the folders into one mega sized post. There are pictures in here from a family portrait fundraiser (that was not a huge success) for the youth group. There are a few pictures taken on Christmas Eve around the church. Then a bunch of pictures taken for different THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, back then known as THE RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT.

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

Youth Group Fundraiser

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #47

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #51

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #52

RWPE #47 – DISCOVER

RWPE #48 – ACTIVE

RWPE #49 – LOVE

RWPE #50 – RESTAURANTS

RWPE #51 – PEACE OF MIND

It is hard to say what next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve. It looks like 2011’s organization was really bad. We’ll see what happens. There might just be a ton of 2011 images lost. Hope not, but it is certainly a possibility.