Bill, Black & White, Carla, Cathie, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Johnathan, Kim, Michelle, Micky, Steph, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 91 – PORTRAIT

June 12, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

A good solid set of submissions for PORTRAIT as we head down the homestretch of this year’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.

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

BILL WENTWORTH 1

BILL WENTWORTH 2

STEPHANIE KIM

KIM BARKER

CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT

MICKY AUGUSTIN 1

MICKY AUGUSTIN 2

CARLA STENSLAND 1

CARLA STENSLAND 2

MICHELLE HAUPT

CATHIE RALEY

MIKE VEST 1

MIKE VEST 2

What a great week of submission!

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:

NATURE!

NATURE! What a great theme! I know getting out in NATURE might be outside of the comfort zone of some people, but trust me. It isn’t scary out there. Unless you go out to your favorite State Park and it is lousy with a bunch of posers. Only showing up when the weather is nice. Taking up space and getting in the way. But I don’t talk from personal experience. Lousy stinking posers!

But I digress. There is NATURE everywhere. Even people living in cities, have access to NATURE. That being said, there is more than one definition of NATURE. I’d tell you another one, but I bet you own a dictionary. If you don’t, they sell them at book stores. Field trip!

Good luck! I can’t wait to see the NATURE interpretations.

HOUSEKEEPING

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.

Want your own Photography 139 email subscription? Call, email, or text me and I’ll get you the hook up.

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 natural Monday!

Black & White, Faust, Football, Iowa State, Jay, Melissa, Railroad, Scottie D., Willy

09-09-07

June 10, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Most of the pictures from the folder called 09-09-07 are from an Iowa State football game with UNI. The others are from Pufferbilly Days.

Next Saturday’s folder will have lots of yellow flowers!

Candid Portrait, Nora, Photoshop, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – PORTRAIT

June 9, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This is the your reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is PORTRAIT:

Happy photo harvesting!

Art, Flowers, Macro, WPC - Alternate

This Rejection’s Got Me So Low

June 9, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

These pictures didn’t have what it takes to be included with the PURPLE theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:

If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they might accomplish!

Formal Portrait, Photo Journal, Self-Portrait, Shannon

A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll

June 8, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

My new Wednesday Photo Project is to work my way through the book “Use This If You Want to Take Great Photographs. A photo journal” by Henry Carroll. I’m not sure how much I’ll do on each night, but I made my first foray into the book with Shannon’s assistance last Wednesday.

The way the book works is that is mostly a collection of pages to paste pictures into with photo directives like:

Take an ugly picture of something beautiful.
Create drama around the edge of your frame.
Use aperture to capture melancholy.
Make light the subject of your photography.

And so on and so forth.

Here are four images I started with:

Photograph a park bench.

Show us that photography is a form of magic.

Photograph your earliest memory.

Throw something at your subject and capture their reaction with a fast shutter speed.

Since I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to attack this project, I might redo a couple of these photos because I think I’m going to add on a rule that nobody can be in more than one picture

Laura, Nate, Night, Road Trip, Travel

Manhattan Nights

June 7, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Thought I’d share another one of my favorite photos from my trip to Manhattan to visit Nate and Laura.

This water tower is on top of Manhattan Hill. I think Manhattan Hill is one of my favorite places in Manhattan. Although on this recent trip I was introduced to Top of the World. I’ll definitely be checking that out during the day on my next trip to Wildcat Land.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2
ISO: 200
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 10 seconds
DATE: 05/27/2017 – 22:31
NO GPS DATA COLLECTED
PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Nate and Laura deserve credit for introducing me to this sweet spot.
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Speak Like a Child” by Herbie Hancock from KEN BURNS JAZZ
FAVORITE LYRIC: It is an instrumental silly!

Bethany, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Dae Hee, Holidays, Jim, Nora

Memorial Day – 2017

June 6, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

I spent most of my Memorial Day enjoying my day off. Watching old war movies and grilling with the family. But the highlight of my day was seeing Nora for the first time in WAY TOO LONG! Which is completely my fault, but an error in my judgment that I will fix in the future. Hopefully on a trip to Manhattan, Kansas in July!

Here are a few pictures from our trip to the Kiddy Corral.

Nora also brought Bethany, Dae Hee, and Jim with her. Very thoughtful of her!

Angie, Art, Carla, Cathie, Kim, Linda, Michelle, Shannon, Steph, Teresa, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 90 – PURPLE

June 5, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This week I had a technology snafu, so if you emailed in a picture before the 11 AM deadline and don’t see it posted, just email it to me again and I’ll get it up. Late, but I’ll get it up.

But you didn’t come here to talk all tommyrot about technology and snafus. You just want to see the submission for PURPLE:

Angie DeWaard 1

Angie DeWaard 2

Christopher D. Bennett

Cathie Raley 1

Cathie Raley 2

Carla Stensland

Kim Barker 1

Kim Barker 2

Kim Barker 3

Michelle Haupt

Shannon Bardole

Mike Vest 1

Mike Vest 2

Stephanie Kim

Linda Bennett 1

Linda Bennett 2

A solid week of submissions!

PORTRAIT!

PORTRAIT! What a great theme! I think everybody knows what a PORTRAIT is, but don’t think that you have to make this a formal portrait. A group of people awkwardly posed in front of some scene from nature. You CAN do that, but you don’t have to do that. Candids work great as well! Don’t think that a PORTRAIT has to be of a human subject. Animals make great portraits. So do inanimate objects. Don’t think that a PORTRAIT has to be of a face. Think creatively and feel free to define the theme any way you see fit!

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

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.

Want your own Photography 139 email subscription? Call, email, or text me and I’ll get you the hook up.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION

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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 portraity Monday!

Football, History

08-31-07

June 3, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

The following images were found in the folder 08-31-07:

Next Saturday’s look down memory lane will include a 5K and Iowa State playing UNI. I’m not sure if UNI is still around. I think they might’ve went bankrupt.

Flowers, Photoshop, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – PURPLE

June 2, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This is your weekly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is PURPLE!

I’m not going to tell you how to take this photo, but I’m to remind you of Alice Walker’s quote on PURPLE in nature:

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color PURPLE in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”

It is in THE BIBLE. Wait. I’ve just been told that quote isn’t in THE BIBLE. Well, it should be. I’m calling for a new Council of Nicea!

Happy photo harvesting!