This your reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is WATER!
This is the perfect time of year to get all we behind the ears, but keep your camera dry. They are expensive and don’t play that well with WATER.
Happy photo harvesting!
A couple weeks back Logan became the latest person to sit for the 9 Emotions Project:
In case, you’ve forgot the emotions:
Sadness
Anger
Amusement
Fear
Jealousy
Surprise
Sympathy
Boredom
I still have my eye on several of you posing for this project… Andy, Scottie D., Nader, Baier, Alisa, Shawn, Russell, Alexis, Elainie, Johnathan, Brandon… the list goes on. Maybe this would be a good activity if I bring back the birthday party in 2018. Hmmmmm…
On Father’s Day the Methodist Men held their first car show. For a first time event, it was quite the success! There were 7 cars there and almost everybody in church came out and looked at and gawked and asked questions about the classic cars. Next year I anticipate getting quite a bit more cars. I have some plans for that.
Here are a few pictures from the event:
There are more pictures from the event. You can see them by clicking on the link below:
The event made me wish that the Bennetts still had the old milk truck from… might have been before I was born.
Last year’s Battle for the Cup came down to a tie again this year. Instead of having a rigged turtle race to determine The Witch, the two tied combatants decided to roll with an old fashioned Pie In Your Face competition.
Here are a few pictures from the battle:
Michelle is the new The Witch. There was a peaceful transfer of power from Cathie to Michelle at Zeno’s in Marshalltown. A good time was had by all.
The final NATURE stop I made was to Lake Augstin. Here are those pictures:
Our run in with a snapping turtle reminds me of a story from my childhood.
One day a snapping turtle showed up in the driveway of my first boyhood home. In my mind it was tied down, but I’m not sure how you would do that. I apparently got very close to the turtle because, well turtles, despite being cowards, are awesome. This lead to a generalized freakout by my Mom.
But where did the turtle come from?
My Dad was riding home from work with a co-worker named Buzz Lee when they saw a snapping turtle crossing the road. They stopped. Picked it up and threw it in the trunk of Buzz Lee’s car. Eventually the turtle went to my Great Uncle Harold who cooked him up and we ate him for supper one night. While that turtle ended up as food, he did get his revenge. While in the trunk of Buzz’s car he at a bunch of the wiring to the car’s taillights. Everything had to be replaced.
I salute that turtle for not going down without a fight!
In case you forgot, I am in Saint Paul on Mission Trip with the Youth Group from my church. Therefore, you won’t see the submissions for TIME until I return on Friday… or whenever it is that I make a recovery from what is very draining and restorative trip.
However, you can start working on this week’s theme:
I don’t think I need to define WATER. I’m pretty sure you know what WATER is, or you wouldn’t have survived this long.
If you are a planner, you might have noticed that next Monday is the day before Independence Day. The government and the bank might take the day off, but Photography 139 does not. Plan on emailing your submission accordingly.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
1. 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.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. 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
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION
Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.
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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 watery Monday.
By the time that this publishes, I should be on the road to Saint Paul with 3 other “adults” and 14 youth from my church for a mission trip.
If you are in the Minnesota, there is a chance you might be able to join us for a community dinner on Thursday night. You’d have to text me for details if that interested you.
However, if you aren’t in Minnesota, the best way to follow this adventure is to get on your phone. Get on Instagram. Follow @boonefumcyg. If you don’t have a phone, but do have a computer, you can follow us at the following URL:
Now there isn’t a ton of time to be dinking around with the social medias when you are doing
All the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.
However, there will be a handful of pictures posted each day, I’d guess. You might even see sweet pictures like the following:
Also, on Sunday, July 2, in between services, the members of the mission trip will be giving their testimony about the mission trip. In Fellowship Hall. So if you’re interested, you should show up for that.
I remember this beatdown Iowa State put on Iowa like it was yesterday:
There are a ton more pictures that I didn’t include in this post. If you are interested, you can check them out in the following gallery:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will include Thomas the Tank and a building that has recently fallen apart.
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE theme is TIME:
Remember that an extremely short exposure or a longer exposure can really help show TIME. Or take a picture of a clock. It’s your TIME.
Happy Photo Harvesting!
This set of NATURE losers was taken in Jester Park.
I’ll be returning to Jester Park soon and spending much more time there at some point in the near future.
