Black & White, Commercial, Shannon

02-10-08/lwlbw

December 23, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

These images are in the folder 02-10-08/lwlbw:

Little White Lye Soap is a subsidiary of Shannon’s business empire Franklin Broom Works. These pictures were taken for some of the earliest iterations of Shannon’s website. Almost 10 years later, a few of the photos from that photo shoot are still on the website. You can purchase Little White Lye Soap here:

LITTLE WHITE LYE SOAP ONLINE STORE

Little White Lye Soap is a product I still endorse and not just because Shannon loves the movie A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. It is also a great product ran by a great person.

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve more Little White Lye Soap.

Photoshop, Work, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – SCARY

December 22, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

A reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is SCARY:

SCARY!

This is the first time that SCARY has been a theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, therefore I’m not going to provide you with any examples. Just think about what scares you and create that picture.

Happy photo harvesting!

Art, Black & White, Boone FUMC, Calendar, Commercial, Flowers, Macro, Nature, Night, Railroad, Ruins, Travel

Final Day to Order – 2018 Photography 139 Calendar

December 22, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

A friendly reminder that today is the last day to order a 2018 Photography 139 Calendar!

The price of the calendar is still $10. A veritable bargain in this climate of rising prices!

I’m sure you are ready to plunk down $10 or $20 or $30 based on the high quality product that has existed in the past. I would gladly take your money, sight unseen, but I would at least like to reveal what pictures are in the 2018 Calendar.

Have a look:

Front Cover

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Each picture was aligned with the month it was taken in. Okay maybe a hair of finagling was done at that front… I’ll never tell… Even if the .exif data will.

The calendars are 17 x 11 inches in size when they are open.

Calendar comes with a free Christopher D. Bennett business card. Good for getting you out of any life or death situation involving Boone toughs.

If you wish to order a calendar or calendar(s), you may email me at:

bennett@photography139.com

If you live within reasonable driving distance (about 45 minutes from Boone’s Golden Circle) I can hand deliver the calendar free of charge.

If the calendar needs to be mailed, there will be a shipping and handling charge of some kind.

Order fast! Supplies are limited!

Thanks!

Christopher D. Bennett
Photography 139
CDO
Chairman of the Board
President
Vice-President
Director
Superintendent of Invention

Dae Hee, Football, Iowa State, Jesse, Nate, Road Trip, Russell

Lost in a Roman Wilderness of Pain

December 21, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Here are some photos from the last 2 Iowa State football games I attended. Both ended in controversial defeats for Iowa State. The game against Oklahoma State, the bad call took the tying touchdown away from Iowa State, but I can understand why the bad call was made.

There were too many bad calls made in the Kansas State game to even talk about. At least these terrible calls didn’t keep Iowa State from going bowling!

These pictures taken with a point & shoot.

2 GOATS!

Thanks to Nate for scoring Dae Hee and I free tickets to the Kansas State debacle!

A week from now me, Jesse, and Russell should be well on our way to Memphis for one last Cyclone football game! I’m already excited for next season!

Black & White, Flowers, Logan, Mom, Nature, Photoshop, Road Trip, Teresa

Flowers Heal Me, Tulips Make Me Happy

December 20, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Hitting the backlog again. Going back to May when Mom, Teresa, Logan, and I went to What Cheer, Iowa for a flea market. After we left the flea market we went to Oskaloosa for lunch and then went through Pella on our way back home.

Here are pictures from that trip:

On the way back we stopped at Tasos Steakhouse for lunch. If you are ever in Oskaloosa, I would strongly recommend it.

Art, Flowers, Still Life, Tamara, WPC - Alternate

To Keep ‘Em Talking and Acting like Everybody; Gonna Get Up in a Sleep with Your Eyes Open

December 19, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

The world wasn’t ready for these images on Monday. Not sure the world is ready for these alternate FLOWERS pictures right now. But I can’t hold them back any longer:

I also messed up on this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I forgot to publish these two photos:

Tamara Peterson

I’ll tighten my game back up!

Becky, Cathie, Flowers, Kim, Macro, Shannon, Steph, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 118 – FLOWERS

December 18, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Finally getting a chance to sit down and go through the submission for the FLOWERS theme for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. You can tell that holiday season is upon us as participation rates continue to plummet.

Therefore, let me make this announcement early:

Next Monday is Christmas! While the government might take that day off, there are no holidays for Photography 139. Every day I’m hustlin’! Plan to get you submission early!

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

Kim Barker

Cathie Raley

Stephanie Kim

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Stephanie Kim

Becky Parmelee

Christopher D. Bennett

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:

SCARY!

SCARY! What a great theme! A little odd for a Christmas time, but the random generator has spoken. I don’t think I need to define SCARY! After all, different things scare different people. I guess I’ll find out what you find SCARY!

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 scary Monday!

Alexis, Animals, Art, Black & White, Brandon, Event, Flowers, Johnathan, Logan, Mom, Teresa

Mother’s Day – 2017

December 17, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Hitting the backlog for pictures from the Bennett Family Mother’s Day Barbecue:

I hope when you celebrated Mother’s Day 6 months ago, it was as awesome as our Mother’s Day celebration!

Andree, Art, Baier, Basketball, Derrick, Football, Iowa State, Jay, Jeff Kewer, Jesse, Nader, Night, Scottie D., Work

01-31-08

December 16, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

The following images came from the folder 01-31-08:

The main takeaway from this collection of photos to me is that I hope I still have a full resolution photo of the Rambo Platoon somewhere. RAMBO is a horrible movie, but that was a great night!

The quarter picture was from the computer mine. The statue is Jack Trice, but of course, you already knew that. Those light up Iowa State athletes used to be in front of the Jacobson Building, but they took them down a few years back.

By adding these images to the Photography 139 SmugMug Gallery, I was able to restore the following past entries of THE ARTIST’S NOTEBOOK:

JACK TRICE WALLPAPER
THE LOST QUARTER
BHS ALUMNI
RAMBO PLATOON

I’m not exactly sure where next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will land. Might be some Little White Lye Soap. Might be some Angry Brad’s Designs.

Angie, Carla, Flowers, Kim, Steph, Vest, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – FLOWERS

December 15, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

ANNOUNCEMENT: I WILL BE A PALL BEARER AT A FUNERAL AT THE TIME THAT THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE PICTURES ARE NORMALLY PUBLISHED AND THE THEME FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEK IS REVEALED. DON’T PANIC ON MONDAY WHEN THE NEW THEME ISN’T REVEALED AT 12:01 PM. IT WILL BE REVEALED AT SOME POINT ON MONDAY. DON’T WORRY. I WILL FEED YOU BABY BIRDS!

A reminder that this week’s theme is FLOWERS:

FLOWERS!

I could come up with some kind of fancy pants elitist definition for what would constitute a FLOWERS picture, but instead, I’ll just show you a few examples:

Carla Stensland

Kim Barker

Stephanie Kim

Mike Vest

Angie DeWaard

That should get your photography blood pumping.

Happy photo harvesting!