Last Sunday I was coming home from Stratford I came across a flock of bald eagles in an empty field. Unfortunately, I had the wrong lenses with me, so this great opportunity turned into a great failure.
Here is what I was able to get:
It was the first time I’ve seen bald eagles in Boone County besides down by the Des Moines River. I’ve never seen a bunch together. There were about 10-15 in this field just north of Ridgeport.
The world wasn’t ready for these OLD/ELDERLY 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 at a Methodist Church. Either in Boone or Stratford.
You’re welcome world!
Despite the nicer weather, participation rates for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE haven’t rebounded. Might be time to consider retiring it at the end of this 52 week run. THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE must be getting OLD. Maybe even ELDERLY. Perhaps time to put it out to pasture. Perhaps ready for retirement!
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you came to see the submissions:
Kim Barker
Kim Barker
Micky Augustin
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Tamara Peterson
Andy Sharp
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:
SHADOW! What a great theme! But what is a SHADOW photograph. A SHADOW photograph is a photograph where a SHADOW plays a prominent role in the photo. It can literally be a picture of a SHADOW. But it can also be a picture where a SHADOW lands on your subject. A silhouette photo is an example of a SHADOW photograph.
As always, I will be interested in seeing 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 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 shadowy Monday!
Saturday was the annual Home Show in Boone. Kio asked me to come out there and take a couple of photos of the Humane Society’s Booth:
One of these pictures might be appearing in your local newspaper this week, if your local newspaper is the Boone News Republican.
The following images are from the folder 03-09-08/Little_White_Lye_Soap:
These pictures were taken for Shannon’s soap company Little White Lye Soap.
Next time we walk down memory lane, it will involve the downtown First United Methodist Church.
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is OLD/ELDERLY:
Remember. Age is just a number. But OLD/ELDERLY… that is a judgment.
Happy photo harvesting!
Hitting up the backlog again. Here are a few more pictures from the Caves Road Trip. These are from Wapsipinicon State Park:
These aren’t the caves we headed out to see, but we still hit them hard. Nothing like Bonus Cave Action.
There is a legend about how the Wapsipinicon River got is name. It goes a little something like this (according to the Buchanan County Historical Society):
A beautiful Indian maiden named Wapsi who once lived in a village near present-day Quasqueton. In a neighboring village lived Pinicon, son of an Indian chief and the ardent lover of the gentle Wapsi. On the eve of their wedding day, the two lovers were canoeing near Wapsi’s village when the jealous Fleet Foot, a former suitor of the Indian girl, drove an arrow into Pinicon’s heart. As wapsi sprang to the aid of Pinicon the canoe overturned and the two lovers sank beneath the water of the swiftly flowing river. In commemoration of this tragic event the sorrowing Indians combined the names of the two lovers and called the stream Wapsipinicon.
While it is a great story and reminds one of the story of the Swinging Bridge in Columbus Junction. Unfortunately, it probably isn’t true. The Wapsipinicon is most likely named for the wild artichokes that grow on its banks.
While artichokes aren’t romantic, even though there is such a thing as artichoke hearts, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that Brandi Carlile’s new album came out last Friday:
A love song was playing on the radio
It made me kind of sad because it made me think of you
And I wonder how you’re doing but I wish I didn’t care
Because I gave you all I had and got the worst of you
If you haven’t picked it up, you aren’t doing the way you listen to music right.
Hitting up the backlog, here are a few pictures I took on Christmas:
The tree pictures were taken for consideration for my Merry Christmas post.
Hitting the backlog again. Here are a few pictures from the Boone County Fair:
Most of those goat belong to the Sharps.
The world wasn’t ready for these STILL LIFE pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready now. But I can’t hold them back any longer:
You’re welcome world!
