Category Archives: Portrait

2011-02-27

November 6, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 2011-02-27 are from a photo shoot I did with Jill. Some are for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. One was displayed at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon.

Here are the pictures from the folder 2011-02-27:

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 #65

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #67

RWPE Y2 #8 – MARKET

The next walk down memory lane will involve Derrick and music methinks. Amongst other things.

Andy, Christianity, Dahlia, Derrick, Greyson, Iowa State, Jay, Jesse, Layla, Logan, Michelle, Naima, Road Trip, Self-Portrait, Self-Portrait Project, Shannon, Teresa, Vest, Willy

Selfie Project – October

November 2, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

On Sunday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. One thing that always happens when I look back at a month’s worth of pictures I’m always surprised at some of the things that all happened in the same month. That? That happened this month? I thought that was like 2 months ago.

Here are my favorites from October:

October 1

October 2

October 3

October 4

October 5

October 7

October 8

October 9

October 12

October 14

October 16

October 17

October 18

October 20

October 22

October 23

October 24

October 25

October 28

October 30

October 31

There can be only one Selfie per day, but here are some of favorite alternate selfies from October:

Hopefully November is a good month too.

Andy, Bill, Carla, Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse, Kio, Logan, Michelle, Tamara, Willy, WPC - Submissions

WPC – WEEK 320 – HERO

November 1, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 5 Comments

Reminder this is the last day to submit ideas for next year’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme. Leave you suggestions in the comments section of today’s journal entry.

It looks like a few people have people they consider to be a HERO.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:

Carla Stensland

Kio Dettman

Tamara Peterson

Christopher D. Bennett

Bill Wentworth

Michelle Haupt

Logan Kahler

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:

BUSINESS

BUSINESS! What a great theme for Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!

But what is a BUSINESS image? A BUSINESS image is any image that shows any aspect of a BUSINESS. From a storefront. To the employees working at the BUSINESS. To a BUSINESS card. Literally any aspect of a BUSINESS. And it can be any type of BUSINESS. From a mulit-million dollar corporation to somebody selling Pampered Chef out of the trunk of their car.

While thinking on your BUSINESS picture, think on the following quote:

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-Andy Warhol

Good luck capturing a great BUSINESS image.

RULES

The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge.

You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.

That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing our idea of BUSINESS in this place that that vaguely resembles a business next Monday.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Shannon, Still Life, Willy

2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20

October 30, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The images in the folders 2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20 are mostly from THE NINE EMOTIONS PROJECT. Then there is also a picture I took for Valentine’s Day.

Here are the pictures in the folders 2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20:

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 #55

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #63

The next time we walk down memory lane it will involve Jill.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse

2011-02-11

October 23, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 2011-02-11 are of Jesse and Jay posing for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT.

Here are the pictures from 2011-02-11:

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 #61

The next time we take a walk down memory lane it will involve more of THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT.

Art, Baseball/Softball, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Christianity, Flowers, Road Trip, Shannon

Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3

October 20, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

This is the final set of peripheral images I took on my road trip with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. The last couple of pictures are from Maxwell that I took on my way back home. I stopped there because I still needed to photograph their Freedom Rock. They have a tank next to their Freedom Rock. Story County don’t play.

Martensdale

Churchville

Cumming

Summerset

Maxwell

It was a good trip and hopefully Shannon joins me for another town sign harvesting trip in the future.

Bill, Candid Portrait, Carla, Jesse, Kim, Kio, Micky, Shannon, Still Life, Tamara, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WPC – WEEK 318 – PASSION

October 18, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 19 Comments

In the next few weeks I will be compiling a list of the next 52 themes. If you have ideas for me to consider, place it in the COMMMENTS section of this here journal entry. I might not use them, but I will definitely give them the consideration that they deserve. I like to swap out at least half the themes from year to year. For this year’s set of 52 themes, only Andy submitted submissions. Makes a guy kinda sad.

PASSION is a pretty abstract theme, so I wasn’t sure how good participation rates would be. However, there were several people that have a PASSION about their PASSION. And a couple people that texted me that they have no PASSION in their life and furthermore don’t even know anybody that has a PASSION in their life. I guess those people don’t know me and I’m not sure how they got my phone number. But don’t worry, they have been blocked and reported.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:

Kio Dettman

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Kio Dettman

Tamara Peterson

Bill Wentworth

Christopher D. Bennett

Micky Augustin

Carla Stensland

Kim Barker

Jesse Howard

Mike Vest

GREEN

GREEN! What a great theme! But what is a GREEN image? Simply enough, a GREEN image is any image where the color GREEN is an important part of the compositional elements. It can be the main subject, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. The word GREEN also has multiple meanings, if you want to explore that as well.

As you are considering your GREEN image, think on the following quote for inspiration:

Green in the prime color of the world, and that from which loveliness arises.
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca

RULES

You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.

That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing our idea of GREEN in this place that tries to be as environmentally friendly as possible the next Monday.

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.

Candid Portrait, Iowa State, Layla

4-H Photo Scavenger Hunt

October 10, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

On Tuesday night Layla wanted to go to a 4-H Photo Scavenger Hunt on the Iowa State Campus, but both her parents were indisposed. They asked me to take her and since 4-H photography runs through the blood of this family (both my sisters were accomplished 4-H photographers) I agreed to the excursion.

Before the hunt, there was a presentation where a Story County 4-H Photography Judge gave pointers on taking pictures for the photo contest. She mostly hammered down on the “rule of thirds” and “giving space for objects in motion to move”. Good rudimentary rules for beginning photographers.

Here are the 10 items Layla was to photograph:

+ “Images” on the ground from the sun.
+ You can see me in the water, but I never get wet.
+ A type of insect with antennae on its head. It might be found in a hill and can be red.
+ Out in nature I can be seen, I fall, but not from an evergreen.
+ Any item you can see moved by wind or force.
+ I am pretty and smell sweet, you will find me if you look down near your feet.
+ Here, books are organized by numbers and from A-Z.
+ Orange, blue, yell, green, red, indigo. What is the color this is missing from the rainbow.
+ Full of water, but not a lake. On top sits a 40 foot tank.
+ I’ve told you what to find until now, here’s your chance to make me say “WOW!”. Find an object and show your own unique perspective.

Here are pictures I took of Layla taking her pictures.

After they completed the hunt, the group posted it up in the new Student Innovation Center (which is a sweet, sweet building) and everybody showed their favorite picture from the hunt. Then the judge and her son gave the pointers and lot more talks of Rules of Thirds. But don’t be surprised if at the Story County Fair next year (I honestly have no clue where or when that is) there are lots of pictures of the Marston Water Tower.

I do think that the Photo Scavenger Hunt is a good idea for getting the youth to take pictures they can enter in a photo contest. You may not know this, but the original idea for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE (born the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT) was to generate pictures that could be used for photo contests. The idea, Vest said was that at the end of the year you would have 52 pictures you could consider for photo contests. While I’m not sure how many (or if any) pictures I have taken have ever been entered in a photo contest, but the idea still stands.

I wonder if I could somehow steal the Photo Scavenger Hunt idea to try to generate youth entries for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. This would be an easier idea to pull off if Boone still had a Camera Club. Hmmmm…

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.