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The Selfie Project – Denouement

January 5, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett

It is over! The Selfie Project is over! But we should have a couple last looks at all that was “accomplished”!

Here are my favorite pictures from December:

December 2

December 4

December 6

December 7

December 9

December 11

December 12

December 13

December 16

December 17

December 18

December 20

December 21

December 22

December 23

December 24

December 28

December 29

December 30

January 1

Here is a photomosaic of the December 31 selfie:

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FULL RESOLUTION PHOTO MOSAIC

I also made a video featuring all 367 images. You can watch it below:

Of course, if you subscribe to this blog via email or RSS Feed, you will have to physically go to this blog entry to view the video!

It was a good project and while at least Michelle is sad to see it go, it is time to put it to bed. Maybe I’ll bring it back in 2019.

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Refreshed from Time to Time with the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants

January 4, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett

Thought I would share a few cruddy cell phone pictures from my recent trip to Memphis with Russell and Jesse to watch Iowa State’s 21-20 beatdown of Memphis in the Liberty Bowl:

You know you’re in Memphis when you walk into a hotel lobby and there is a musician setting up shop.

Beale Street

Greetings from Memphis!

Beale Street

Supper!

Delicious Chicken and Waffles #wafflelife

I want this Sam Cooke table.

The King

The King’s Final Resting Place

In front of the gates at Graceland

First time in Mississippi.

Amazing Waffle House Experience. Waitress told us that she loved our “Northern Accents”. #wafflelife

We will be sending a very nice letter to Waffle House about this amazing waitress!

Back to Tennessee.

This many people gathered to watch ducks walk from an elevator to a fountain. To John Philip Sousa.

Some college football fanbases don’t have any problems filling a baseball stadium.

The Memphis Redbirds play in a beautiful stadium.

Post pep rally fireworks.

Selfie Time!

Cozy Corner is a big recommend. Their barbecue spaghetti, not so much.

Delicious, delicious ribs!

With the owner. Teenage Cyclone fan for the photobomb!

The National Civil Rights Museum located where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Watched the Iowa State basketball debacle here. These musicians were solid, but made the night slightly uncomfortable.

More Beale Street.

Apparently Iowa State fans like their Busch Light.

Even More Beale Street.

Admittedly, not my best work. #wafflelife

ISUCFVMB

Sea of Cardinal and Gold

Cyclones!!!

Dig those sweet chrome helmets!

This flyover by a FedEx 747 was both slow and scary.

Weirdest halftime show ever? The Isley Brothers and other stuff.

Victory Formation!

Sing the alma mater!

Victory Selfie!

Jumbotron? Try minitron.

I’ll be strolling into church some Sunday with this jacket.

21-20* Should’ve been 28-20, but refs aren’t perfect.

Leave these guys alone for a moment and they are staring at their phones.

There are plenty of real camera pictures that will be released eventually, but thought I’d get these out early. I didn’t take the real camera into the Liberty Bowl. A myriad of reasons, but in the end, you just need to know that it didn’t work out.

Memphis’ stadium is a little dumpy. It isn’t a complete dump, like where Kansas and Missouri play. But it isn’t nice like where Kansas State or Iowa or of course like Jack Trice.

I have to commend Russell. He survived almost 3 full days with me and Jesse. That isn’t an easy feat for most people. He is horrified that I photograph my food, but he is going to have to learn. That is how Bennetts roll. It is genetic. I swear it!

To surmise, it was a great trip that ended with a Cyclone victory! I’m already making plans for next year’s bowl game trip. Who wants in?

Boone FUMC

So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World

January 3, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett

Here are a few pictures from the early Candlelight Service on Christmas Eve at the Boone First United Methodist Church:

Candlelight Service is always my favorite worship service of the year. There is just something peaceful about it.

When Youth Group returns in another week, I’m going to use Willy Wonka to explain the service. At least I’m going to try to do that.

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That Last Album Was Heavy, That Last Album Was Gritty, How You Gon’ Match That?

January 2, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett

The world wasn’t ready for these LOW PERSPECTIVE pictures 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 pictures were taken in Memphis. Others were taken in my backyard. One was taken in my kitchen.

You’re welcome world.

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WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 120 – LOW PERSPECTIVE

January 1, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

After last week’s disaster of participation, participation rates took a slight uptick. Even as temperatures in central Iowa dipped to below -10.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk tommyrot abut participation rates. You came to see the submissions:

CATHIE RALEY

CARLA STENSLAND

KIM BARKER

SHANNON BARDOLE-FOLEY

ANGIE DEWAARD

CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT

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:

RUINS!

RUINS! What a great theme! But what does it mean? Find something that is falling apart. Something that isn’t in the best shape. Something that is rusty. Something that’s best days are behind it. Photograph it.

As always, 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 due date. 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 ruinous Monday!