Carla, Cathie, Dawn, Kim, Micky, Nature, Tamara, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 110- REFLECTION

October 23, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 9 Comments

People weren’t exactly beating down my email’s inbox door for this week’s theme of REFLECTION. Yet, there was some really great submissions.

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

KIM BARKER

TAMARA PETERSON

CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT

DAWN KRAUSE

MIKE VEST

CATHIE RALEY

MICKY AUGUSTIN

CARLA STENSLAND

KELLY HOWARD

A solid week of submissions!

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:

LANDSCAPE!

LANDSCAPE! What a great theme! But what does it mean? How about this:

all the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

A landscape photo can include water (waterscape) or a city (cityscape) or the ocean (seascape). At least it can for our purposes. But as always, feel free to define the theme as you see fit.

I look forward to seeing your 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.

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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 landscaped Monday!

Candid Portrait, Linda, Night, Sarah Toot

LSD the Bridge

October 22, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 5 Comments

I have a rather shocking confession. I have never done LSD. However, if I had tried LSD, I imagine the experience would be something like walking across the High Trestle Trail Bridge on a dark night.

Several weeks back my cousin Sarah and my Aunt Linda were in town and we did just that. Here are a few pictures from the evening:

Recently the neighbors have complained that the bridge is too noisy at night and now the authorities are turning the lights off at 9 PM. Very sad.

History, Holidays, Iowa State, Night

11-29-07

October 21, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Most of the images that are located in the folder 11-29-07 were all taken at Iowa State:

Man! I miss being able to turn out the lights at work! Those were the days!

By adding these pictures to the SmugMug Gallery I was able to restore the following gallery:

HOPE

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve Bandshell Park in Ames.

Self-Portrait, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – REFLECTION

October 20, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

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

REFLECTION!

I don’t think that REFLECTION needs much of a definition. You probably own a dictionary. If you don’t, SHAME!

Happy photo harvesting!

Animals, Art, Automobiles, Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, Travel

My Minnesota Spirit Animal

October 20, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Back in August I went up to Minnesota to visit some of my favorite peeps, but I also had an ulterior motive. For years I’ve driven up to the Twin Cities area and just south of Lakeville I would come across a strange collection of sculptures on the east side of I-35. I’ve never been able to figure out how to get there. Or for that matter, what it even was.

This trip to Minnesota I vowed to crack the mystery. Before supper Bethany, Nora, and Dae Hee and I and a sense of wonderment loaded up into a vehicle and tried to solve the mystery… and solve the mystery, we did.

After some wrong turns we finally located the source of the wonderful mystery sculptures. The source was Hot Sam’s Antiques and Foto Park. For $10 your party could take as many cruddy cell phone pictures as you wanted. It was $25 for an actual camera-camera.

We plunked down the Hamilton and wandered and wondered around the Minnesota magical wonderland that is Sam’s Foto Park. Here are some cell phone pictures from this wondrous adventure:

Dino Bustin’

So this is what happened to the bus from TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Dae Hee in Repose

Nora LOVED this car!

#outhousesofinstagram

I both love and am creeped out by old industrial trucks!

This is a fence of nightmares!

Worst Pixar movie ever! Not counting the worse sequels.

Plan 9 from Outer Space?

You know this would look amazing in my yard!

My birthday is 7 months away… If you start saving now…

You can have Disneyland. Give me Hot Sam’s Foto Park. Every day of the week and… wait for it…. thrice on Sundays!!

Jesse, Photo Journal, Self-Portrait

A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 58 Beta

October 19, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

On the last Saturday of my vacation I corralled Jesse and we went out to McHose Park and took the second picture for Page 58 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:

Page 58 Beta – Take a picture of yourself pretending to be yourself.

Here are a couple of others we took during the session that won’t be physically adhered into the physical PHOTO JOURNAL:

I have a few more pages for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT taken, so I’m not sure what page I will unveil next. Leaning towards Page 33 though.

Event, Kio, Melissa, Politics, Scottie D., Teresa

First You “Meat” and then You Greet

October 18, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Thanks to everybody that braved the cold temperatures on Sunday to attend Scott Degeneffe’s “Meat” and Greet and he continues to pursue election to the office of City Councilman for Boone Ward 5.

Here are a few photos from the event:

The event was a huge success! Attracting people as diverse as people that work on Republican campaigns to the most ardent backyard chicken activists.

Remember that you (if you live in Ward 5) can, should, and must vote for Scott Degeneffe on November 7th!

PAID FOR BY NOBODY – CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT IS NOT FOR SALE

Animals, Black & White, Flowers, Formal Portrait, Iowa State, Kim, Macro, Naima, Nature, Still Life, Work

Season ‘Em, Put ‘Em on a Beat with Me, Then I’m Eating ‘Em

October 17, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

The world wasn’t ready for these MACRO pictures for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE on Monday. I’m not sure that the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer:

The grand majority of these pictures were taken in my back yard. The first seven were taken at Herman Park. The closed eye is Kim Barker. It was taken behind the building at the Day Job.

Angie, Becky, Cathie, Kim, Macro, Pastor Sarah, Shannon, Sheri, Steph, Tamara, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 109 – MACRO

October 16, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

MACRO might be the most technically difficult theme on the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Despite that, several people buckled up and gave it a spin!

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you came to see the MACRO submissions!

Sheri Farkhouri

Sarah Karber

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Tamara Peterson

Angie DeWaard

Tamara Peterson

Cathie Raley

Becky Parmelee

Kim Barker

Christopher D. Bennett

Mike Vest

Stephanie Kim

A solid week of submissions!

REFLECTION!

REFLECTION! What a great theme!!! Also, I don’t think it requires much of an explanation. Some surfaces show back what is looking at them. Mirrors for example. Water. Mylar. Of course their is more than one definition of REFLECTION. So interpret the theme as you see fit.

As always, I look forward to your interpretations!

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.

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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 reflective Monday!

Boone FUMC, Event, Jaxon, Kio, Mom, Youth Group

Ain’t No Party Like a Methodist Party!

October 15, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

A month or so back, my church (Boone First United Methodist Church, represent!) had their annual-ish summer is over kickoff party. So it doesn’t really have a name. But a bunch of Methodists get together at Herman Park and throw down some food and have a good time.

Here are some pictures from the event:

No poop emoji this year!

How do you know it is a Methodist Party. 4 PM. 80 degrees. Still serving coffee!

If you’re interested, there are many more photos that look like these to peruse by clicking the link below:

METHODIST PARTY

I would be counting down the days to the next Methodist Party, but that would falsely imply that a Methodist Party has stopped. “Which we all know that they don’t.