Last Thursday was the Christmas Lighted Parade in Boone. My church started (hopefully) a new tradition by entering a float in the parade. I went down to the parade with the thought of photographing it, but in the end, I ended up on the church float.
Here are a few pictures from the night:
I’ll be excited to see where the church takes this new tradition in the future!
The world wasn’t ready for these PORTRAIT images on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer:
Most of these PORTRAITs were taken around the computer mine. Some were taken during communion at my church. Others were taken in my back yard.
You’re welcome world!
The theme PORTRAIT was the least popular theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in years. A bit surprising because usually I get quite a selection of pictures of children and grandchildren. A little disturbing to me that children have fallen so out of favor with this group of people. But I get it. Children. They are here to replace us. You have to watch them all the time!
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk tommyrot about participation rates. You came for the submissions:
Becky Parmelee
Cathie Raley
Michelle Haupt
Christopher D. Bennett
Tamara Peterson
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:
WATER! What a great theme! I don’t think I need to define WATER for you. It is literally everywhere. Granted most of it is polluted because one of the ingredients in the recipe to make humans is something like 30% stupidity. Higher in certain parts of the South and Nebraska. However, it is still there. For now!
As always, I look forward to your interpretations.
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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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!
I don’t know that I did much that was particularly interesting in November, but I do feel like I did get some interesting photos, even though it doesn’t feel like I did that much in November.
Here are my favorites from THE SELFIE PROJECT from the month of November:
November 4
November 5
November 6
November 7
November 9
November 10
November 11
November 12
November 13
November 15
November 16
November 19
November 20
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 25
November 26
November 28
November 30
There is 1 month and one day left in THE SELFIE PROJECT. I’m sure that my Instagram followers look forward to its conclusion. I don’t know if I will substitute with a different daily project or if I will just take some time to sit under my own vine and fig tree.
If you do want to keep up with THE SELFIE PROJECT on a daily basis and see what other things I Insta, you can follow me under the following handle
You can also see all of THE SELFIE PROJECT images by clicking on the link below:
I’ll try to finish up the last 30 or so THE SELFIE PROJECT images strong! But we’ll see.
The images from the folder 01-18-08 are proof that my reputation for hating cats is often overblown.
The fat cat is Fat Jake. The other cat is Toby. I don’t wish to speak ill of the deceased, so that is all I can write about him in conscience. But okay, that cat sucked. Even by cat standards that cat sucked.
Fat Jake was cool though.
By restoring these images to the Photography 139 SmugMug Gallery I was able to restore the following old-timey blogs to their original gloryL
Next week’s stroll down Memory Lane will include another one of my first steps down a broken road of stupidity.
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is PORTRAIT:
Here is a good definition of PORTRAIT provide by the good folks at Wikipedia:
Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study.
Seems simple enough! Here are a few examples:
Micky Augustin
Angie DeWaard
Carla Stensland
Mike Vest
Kim Barker
That collection ought to get your creative juices flowing!
Happy photo harvesting!
The balance of the photos from the Women’s March from back in January:
I’m already looking forward to the march in 2018.
And Happy Michael Flynn Day to you!
