This is the final collection of pictures from the photo shoot I had with Anela a couple weeks after she was born.
I’m sure I will have so many more Anela pictures to share in the coming years!
Anela Chapter 3
Monthly Archives: June 2021
2010-09-20
The pictures in the folder 2010-09-20 are from a block party at the Boone First United Methodist Church. It was supposed to be a mostly outside event, but bad weather forced it to be inside. It is weird looking at these pictures now, because these little kids are now in college and many of the older people have moved to a different town and don’t go to our church any longer. Unfortunately, many of them have also passed on.
It appears that this is the first time that I ever shared these pictures on this website.
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane and will involve Iowa State football.
Assemblage
Today I’m sharing a collection I took over a couple days back in February or Naima and of an icicle.
Some people say I don’t take enough pictures of Naima. Naima is not one of those people. She is a dog.
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This your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is WHITE:
WHITE
WHITE! What a great theme for Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what is a WHITE image? A WHITE image is simply and image where the color WHITE plays an important part of the composition of the image.
Happy photo harvesting!
Just Between You and Me
Today I’m sharing a collection of flower pictures I took in my Mom’s yard on April 8. Tulips, daffodils, and Mother’s Day Peony are included in this collection.
I have so many flower pictures to share. And so many more to take.
Franklin County Auxiliary Images
Back in March I made a solo trip up to Franklin County to harvest the town signs that I was missing. Here are some of the auxiliary images I took while I was up there.
Popejoy
Bradford
Hampton
Chapin
Sheffield
Hampton Again
Geneva
Beeds Lake State Park
Coulter
Franklin County is an interesting county. A collection of tiny towns, a nice state park, and a Hardee’s for me to get my Hardee’s breakfast fix.
Town Sign Project: Benton County
I recently took a Friday off from the Computer Mine and Jesse and I spent the day tooling around Benton County and another county harvesting their town signs. It was a very enjoyable road trip.
Here are some facts about Benton County:
+ Population is 26,076.
+ The county seat and largest city is Vinton.
+ Named for Thomas Hart Benton, a Senator from Missouri.
+ Was formed on December 21, 1837 from sections of Dubuque County.
+ Major highways are I-380, US-30, US-151, US-218, IA-8, IA-21, IA-27, and IA-150.
+ Adjacent counties are Black Hawk, Buchanan, Linn, Iowa, and Tama.
+ Currently at peak population.
Benton County has a beautiful courthouse:
Benton County Courthouse in Vinton, Iowa
The Benton County Freedom Rock is located in Shellsburg:
With Benton County conquered, here is the updated Photography 139 Conquest Map:
PURPLE=COMPLETED
23 counties completed. 23.2% of the Cyclone State conquered.
Vinton, Iowa
Welcome to… Vinton – the City of Lights
Population: 5,257
Belle Plaine, Iowa
Welcome to Belle Plaine – Historic Downtown District
Population: 2,534
Atkins, Iowa
Atkins
Population: 1,670
Walford, Iowa (Also Linn County)
Walford
Population: 1,463
Urbana, Iowa
Welcome to Urbana
Population: 1,458
Shellsburg, Iowa
Welcome to Shellsburg – Founded 1854
Population: 983
Newhall, Iowa
Welcome to the City of Newhall
Population: 875
Blairstown, Iowa
Welcome to Blairstown
Population: 692
Van Horne, Iowa
Welcome to Van Horne – Population 682
Keystone, Iowa
Welcome to Keystone
Population: 622
Norway, Iowa
Welcome to Norway – “A Great Place to Come Home To”
Population: 545
Garrison, Iowa
Garrison
Population: 371
Mount Auburn, Iowa
Welcome to Mt. Auburn – Population 150
Population: 150
Luzerne, Iowa
Luzerne Welcomes You – Established 1868
Population: 96
Watkins, Iowa
Watkins Mudhens Baseball State Champions
Unincorporated
Benton County has a very solid collection of town signs. I don’t know that there is a showstopper in the bunch, but at least every single town has a sign. Even the unincorporated town, sorta. It is really just a sign for their baseball team, but it is so great that I’m calling it a town sign. I guess if I have to pick which one is the worst, it is Blairstown. Their town sign got blown over and Jesse had to hold it up just I could get a picture of it. Now, while that might actually be my favorite picture in the set, it doesn’t say much for the town sign.
I think Best in Show for Benton County is pretty obvious too. It has a snazzy design and has a pithy motto. Plus, it calls back to high school sports glory that no longer call this town home.
Norway – Best in Show – Benton County
Norway baseball used to be something of a dynasty in Iowa High School sports. They won something like 20 State Championships but eventually their school district was consolidated into the Benton Community School District with the towns of Van Horne, Atkins, Blairstown, Keystone, and Newhall. It is headquartered in Van Horne. The last year of Norway High’s existence they won a final State Championship. The story was turned into one of the poorest made movies ever called THE FINAL SEASON. It stars the guy who played Rudy in the Notre Dame propaganda film RUDY and the nerdy girl that got hot when she took off her glasses and let her hair down in SHE’S ALL THAT. The movie takes many unnecessary licenses with the actual events, but more than anything it is just horribly written. It is currently on Amazon Prime if you want to make your own estimations though.
A few towns in Benton County also had alternate signs:
Van Horne Alternate
Norway Alternate
Here is the current list of Best in Shows:
Best in Show – Adair County
Best in Show – Audubon County
Best in Show – Benton County
Best in Show – Boone County
Best in Show – Carroll County
Best in Show – Clarke County
Best in Show – Crawford County
Best in Show – Dallas County
Best in Show – Franklin County
Best in Show – Greene County
Best in Show – Guthrie County
Best in Show – Hamilton County
Best in Show – Hardin County
Best in Show – Jasper County
Best in Show – Madison County
Best in Show – Marion County
Best in Show – Marshall County
Best in Show – Polk County
Best in Show – Story County
Best in Show – Tama County
Best in Show – Union County
Best in Show – Webster County
Best in Show – Wright County
Next time we check in with THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT it will involve Poweshiek County.
WPC – WEEK 300 – RED
The theme of RED did fire the passions of a few people as there were a healthy amount of submissions for RED this week.
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:
Micky Augustin
Carla Stensland
Christopher D. Bennett
Tamara Peterson
Joe Duff
Kio Dettman
Kio Dettman
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Kim Barker
Cathie Raley
Angie DeWaard
Elizabeth Nordeen
Sara Lockner
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:
WHITE
WHITE! What a great theme for Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what is a WHITE image? A WHITE image is simply and image where the color WHITE plays an import part of the composition of the image.
Think about the following quote when you think about composing your image:
-Johnatan Milne
Meditate on these words and I have no doubt you will create a magnificent WHITE image.
RULES
The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge.
You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing our idea of WHITE in this place that contains much WHITE next Monday.
The Stenslands 2020 Delta
Here is another collection of images from the Stenslands 2020 family photo shoot:
There is one more collection of images from this photo shoot left to share!
2010-09-06, 2010-09-11, and 2010-09-13
The folders 2010-09-06, 2010-09-11, and 2010-09-13 were all fairly small, so I decided to combine them into one post. Two of the folders include images that were taken for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, which back then was known as the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. The other pictures are of Dawn’s turtle that briefly lived in my backyard.
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:
RWPE #35 – VIEWPOINT
I’m not even sure what the next walk down memory lane will involve. I’d bet that will involve a block party and Iowa State football though.
I Set My Mind to Wandering
Back in February, it was freezing cold. I got together with Logan to take a picture for THE WEEKLY PHOTOCHALLENGE theme of WIND. Basically we boiled some water. Put some food coloring in it. Went outside and he threw it up over his head. Here are some of the outtakes:
It is an experiment that we will have duplicate again this winter.
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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is RED:
RED
RED! What a great theme for Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what is a RED image? A RED image is simply any image where the color RED plays an important part of the composition of the image. For example, the main subject of the picture is RED.
Happy photo harvesting!