Here are the submissions for HUMANIZE for last week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
Kim Barker
Micky Augustin
Mike Vest
Sheri Fakhouri
Christopher D. Bennett
Teresa Kahler
Tamara Peterson 1
Tamara Peterson 2
Cathie Raley
Hopefully you guys have already got to work on your interpretations for this week’s theme… HATE. We should be back to the regular release schedule next week.
Alexis was the most recent volunteer for the 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT:
In case you forgot what the emotions are:
Sadness
Anger
Amusement
Fear
Jealousy
Surprise
Sympathy
Boredom
It will be interesting to see who the next “volunteer” the 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT will be!
I am most likely standing in a field or a park in Kansas or Missouri doing this right now:
Therefore, I won’t post this week’s submissions for HUMANIZE until I return to the Cyclone State on Tuesday.
However, you can still get started on this week’s theme:
HATE! What an awful theme! Especially in light of the events of the domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville by a white supremacist. I actually gave some small consideration to swapping out this theme, but that would be allowing the terrorists to win.
So go out there and either photography something you HATE. Somebody or something exhibiting HATE.
As usual, I will be anxious to see all the interpretations!
PostScript: If things break right, I’ll release the next 52 themes on Sunday.
Now that the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon is officially over, I can reveal what picture was accepted for display and what 3 pictures were given the shaft.
In case you didn’t know, the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon is one of the hardest photo competitions in the world. They only accept about 20% of the photos entered. Now you know.
The following pictures did not fare so well. The judges looked them square in the eye and said, “Get out of here kid. You have no future!”
The next photo contest on the docket is the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Those pictures have been selected by my hearty crew of volunteers and their order has been placed. You can check out those entries on the corner of 8th and Story in downtown Boone starting Thursday, September 7.
Here is a bonus picture:
Sara sent me a picture of she and Cousin Amy finding my picture at the Photography Salon!
The latest person to succumb to the 9 Emotions Project was Nader. Let’s have a look!
Let’s have a closer look:
Sadness
Anger
Amusement
Fear
Jealousy
Surprise
Sympathy
Boredom
Nice work Nader!
So who will be the next to take on the demanding work that is THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT? You’ll have to wait and see!
The pictures in the folder 10-20-07 were taken at Brookside Park:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve Iowa State football.
Here is your weekly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is HUMANIZE:
The definition of HUMANIZE is to take a non-human subject and give it human characteristics.
Happy photo harvesting!
Because I don’t have enough photo projects going on I have recently decided to start a new photo project. It is a project that I have started in the past and then quit. n
Maybe I’m like Hollywood and I’m out of ideas, so I just reboot old ideas? Maybe I just never gave this idea its proper attention. Who knows? We’ll see if I make good on it.
This idea is mostly influenced by an old Welcome to Boone sign that I remember from youth. It had a man catching a fish on it. It could also be 100% a false memory. But my dream is to some day make a self-published coffee table book that nobody will buy. Dream big, I say.
Jay, Willy, and Joe were photo assistants at various parts of these photos. Well maybe not Jay. Pretty sure he was asleep in the bacxkseat.
Here are the first few signs I have photographed:
As with many photo projects, it isn’t until I get back and start editing and curating images that I realize what style I think fits my vision for this project. Now that I’ve seen what I think works, I may have to go back and photograph some of these signs again.
I will also add that if you come across an interesting sign, text me a picture. I need my scouts everywhere.
What is interesting to me? I’m sure you’ve picked up on what I like by now. I like decrepit and falling apart. Or I like funny. Or I like original. Classy doesn’t really work for me. I’ve never been on too good of terms with classy.
For example, the nice stone signs on US30 as you enter Boone do nothing for me. The ugly sign on the corner of US30 and South Story Street is better. Although still pretty lame.
You have your assignment. Start lighting up my phone!
One of the many benefits of having Johnathan living with me is that I have a photo assistant hanging around the house that is more useful than Naima.
So thanks to him for helping out by taking a couple of these pictures and posing for the other two.
I’m actually writing this blog to talk about a new toy I recently picked up. I bought a Sigma 120-400mm lens.
I’m pretty pleased with this purchase so far. Hopefully she will earn her keep.
Truth is that this lens wasn’t much “longer” than my current “longest” lens, but it is buy far the highest quality telephoto I’ve ever owned. At least if weight is sign of quality, it is the best.
To show its reach I’m going to show you two pictures that will actually exaggerate its length.
For the purposes of this example, we will pretend that there isn’t a magnification factor on lens created by cameras with APS-C sensors. In that honor, a true example of showing the “length” of this lens would be to compare it to a 50mm lens. A 50mm lens has the same “length” as the human eye.
Instead, I’m going to show a comparison with one of (but not THE) widest (shortest) lenses I own. A Sigma 10-20mm lens set at 10mm.
Johnathan at 400mm
I guess I should point out I technically have a “longer” lens than this, but it is a mirror 500mm lens. It really is nothing to write home about.
I’ll finally add that I should wish my sister Teresa a “happy birthday”, but then I’d have to wish all my subscribers a “happy birthday” and that just isn’t going to happen.
These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the COLD theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they might accomplish.
