Another collection of ANIMAL pictures that didn’t quite make the cut for Monday’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE reveal. Almost all of these pictures were taken in Jester Park.
I don’t make it to Jester Park enough.
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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is NATURE:
A NATURE image is an image of things that aren’t man made or curated by man. Rivers. Lakes. Wildflowers. Wild animals. Trees. So on. So forth.
Happy photo harvesting!
Today’s collection is a bunch of ANIMAL pictures that weren’t quite ready for mainstream consumption on Monday. Most of them were taken at Jester Park. But a few were taken in my backyard.
I still have another collection of images of ANIMAL alternates in our future.
Today’s collection is a few pictures I took back in May where I was experimenting with water and flowers. Also, some pretty straightforward pictures of columbines.
So many more flower pictures out there to curate!
I did get out and took a few pictures of Neowise last week. Didn’t get anything special because I waited too late and then I didn’t have time to get all the way out to a spot with very little light pollution. I went out to the Harrier Marsh and that is a place that isn’t too bad for the light pollution.
Here are a few images that I got:
I ordered a new fisheye lens for the A72. It should arrive this week. Might have to take it out this weekend and take some more astrophotography pictures. Might have to hit up a spot near Dana, Iowa that Jay keeps pushing. Or I might sit on my couch and watch television. It really is a push.
I might have to change the release time for this weekly blog to 1:01 PM CST because there was a recent mine shaft collapse at the Computer Mine and I’ve had to change my work schedule to compensate, thus changing my lunch hour. But we’ll see how it goes for now.
WooHoo! 43 straight weeks of double digit submissions. Another week where I didn’t have to send out any reminder text messages this morning. I like how this is trending people!
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:
Carla Stensland
Tamara Peterson
Tamara Peterson
Aaron Barnett
Christopher D. Bennett
Aaron Barnett
Jodie Cue
Michelle Haupt
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Jodie Cue
Kim Barker
Kim Barker
Micky Augustin
Cathie Raley
Robyn Augustin
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:
NATURE! What a great theme! But what is a NATURE photo? A NATURE photo can be anything that isn’t man made. A lake. A river. A wildflower. A wild animal.
Remember, “Nature is God’s art. Art is man’s nature”.
I look forward to seeing your interpretations!
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
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.
Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.
OR
I now allow people to text me their submissions. In the past, I had made exceptions for a couple people that aren’t real computer savvy, even though it was an inconvenience for me and required at least 3 extra steps for me. I am now lifting that embargo because I have a streamline way of uploading photos. I’m not giving out my phone number, but if you have it, you can text me.
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
Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and 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 natural Monday!
I need to start today by wishing Russell a happy birthday. Happy birthday Russell!
I hope ripped it up on your birthday as much as you desired to rip it up!
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Today’s collection is a bunch of pictures I took tooling around my back yard back in May.
The title of today’s blog post comes from a quote:
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
– Zen Shin
Russell hates my flower pictures. Maybe if he engaged in some Zen Shin Meditation, he would be so angry and learn to love the simple beauty of flowers.
There aren’t many images in the folders 2010-02-15, 2010-02-17, and 2010-02-22 so I combined them all into one post. Most of the pictures are of flowers. But there is a WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE photo in there and a self-portrait.
By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve self-portraits.
Last Friday night I prowled around Boone for a little bit taking NIGHT pictures for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Many of them, just couldn’t make the cut for Monday. But they seem to be ready for the world now.
I really don’t do enough NIGHT photography these days.
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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is ANIMAL.
An ANIMAL photo is any picture of an ANIMAL or ANIMAL byproduct.
Happy photo harvesting!
Today is a collection of pictures I took back in the good old days, when it used to rain in Boone. Back before the drought. Or I sprayed these things down with a water bottle.
That is a lot of wet flowers.
I need to start today’s post by wishing Alisa a happy birthday. Happy birthday Alisa!
I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be!
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My friend Anders is a very talented writer and an incredible film researcher. However, the reason why we are such friends in that often our tastes in cinema so closely aligns.
We are both big fans of science fiction. While his tastes run more towards STAR TREK and STAR WARS and mine run more towards dudes in rubber suits, it is really our love for the absolute dregs of the cinema that really bonds us.
We both have a deep affection for MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE and THE SWARM and NIGHT OF THE LEPUS and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. However, the one film that really brings us together is the Phil Tucker joint ROBOT MONSTER.
It is my absolute favorite terrible movie and I’m pretty sure it Anders’ favorite as well. After all, he did write the definitive book on the movie.
You can purchase our copy here:
To say that I’ve spent hours on the internet reading up on how to create my own Robot Monster costume would be an understatement. But I’m not here to talk about the greatness of ROBOT MONSTER. I’m here to talk about a different Phil Tucker joint, SPACE JOCKEY.
Anders and I first read about the movie SPACE JOCKEY in the book “The Golden Turkey Awards”. In that book, Phil Tucker is interviewed about ROBOT MONSTER, but he ends the interview by saying that ROBOT MONSTER is a masterpiece compared to another one of his movies SPACE JOCKEY. A movie he described as “a real piece of sh!t”.
Sadly, SPACE JOCKEY has been lost to the sands of time. Very little is known about it, other than a few articles in an Alaskan newspaper.
However, when Anders published the definitive work on ROBOT MONSTER he became somewhat of a celebrity in the old timey science fiction world. It was because of this fact that well, I just let Anders tell it:
It is my privilege and my pleasure to make a huge announcement.
The script for Phil Tucker’s lost film Space Jockey has been discovered, thanks to a copy of it kept by an original cast member. The film remains lost to the best of my knowledge, but Tucker’s script for his lost film has surfaced.
In September 2019, I was contacted by Tok Thompson, professor of Anthropology and Communication at the University of Southern California. Tok’s mother Donnis Stark Thompson, recently departed, had lived a full and fascinating life that included an early stint as an actress. And when Phil Tucker shot the lost film in Fairbanks, Alaska during the late summer of 1953, she was part of the cast. Years later among his mother’s belongings, Tok’s family discovered her copy of the Space Jockey script. Contacting film journalist Phil Hall, Tok was advised to contact me about the script because of my Phil Tucker book I Cannot, Yet I Must.
Thanks to Tok graciously sharing the script, I’ve been able to read it and, thanks to the copyright research of Elias Savada, it’s been confirmed that Tucker’s script was never copyrighted or renewed. As the script is public domain, I am pleased to say that it will be published in the year 2021. Also, there are hopes of performing it in some manner.
As this project is in development and ongoing, I’ll have more to post as the year keeps rolling on, with a publication date to be narrowed down and announced later. I hope that everyone out there who is a fan of Robot Monster, Phil Tucker’s movies, and cult cinema in general is as excited about this project as I am, and I look forward to you being able to experience this lost original script by Phil Tucker.
Stay tuned!
Anders sent me the script last summer. I read it immediately and have been dying to talk about it since then! I finally can!
I want to put together my own table reading of SPACE JOCKEY. Who has Zoom? Who wants a part?
Source: https://runestadwrites.com/2020/07/19/phil-tuckers-space-jockey-a-lost-script-found/
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Around the 4th of July, it was crazy around my neighborhood with the fireworks. I took the drone up and took some video. I’m not great at editing video, so you’ll probably never get to see that, but here are some photos I took:
A few of the pictures at the end are from the last couple of nights. I need to let Rodan139 spread its wings more often.
