Time to reveal the May image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar.
MAY – 2026
Technical Details
- CAMERA: Sony 7RMV
- LENS: Sigma 14-24 f/2.8
- APERTURE: f/5.6
- SHUTTER SPEED: 1/800
- ISO: 100
- DATE TAKEN: March 22, 2025
The subject of the May image is a spider sculpture in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines. This is one of those pictures that when I distributed the calendars I learned that many people are afraid of spiders. Not just real spiders. But spider art. This makes me sad. This picture is taken with an extremely wide angle with a little bit of sun flare in the image because Logan once tried to insinuate that I like light flare too much. Which is ridiculous, because a person can’t like light flare too much. I dare say it was a preposterous assertion. Not to get too inside baseball on the image process, but the May image is almost always an image that I like, but I don’t think has widespread appeal. Like a picture of a spider. Which people don’t like. Because people are cowards.
Tomorrow I will reveal the June image.
It is the fifth day of December. No better day to share THE SELFIE PROJECT images from December. Once again, my travel was pretty minimal. I think it the farthest I made it from my house was Ankeny. That is pretty pathetic! I might do better in January.
Here are the images from November:
December 1
December 2
December 3
December 4
December 5
December 6
December 7
December 8
December 9
December 10
December 11
December 12
December 13
December 14
December 15
December 16
December 17
December 18
December 19
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 23
December 24
December 25
December 26
December 27
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31
Year End Mosaic
As the year went on, I continued to lose popularity. I had my picture taken with 24 distinct souls. In December it was 18. Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. My travels were also awful. I only took pictures in Boone, Ames, and Ankeny.
NOVEMBER CAMEOS
- Jesse (5)
- Teresa (4)
- Brandon (3)
- K.J. (2)
- Bokeh (2)
- Jay (2)
- Nader
- Russell
- Andree
- Kim
- Anders
- Jason
- Amanda
- Willy
- Becky
- James
- Summer
- Santa
I will try to do better in January, but let’s face it, I probably won’t.