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Last Sunday was Confirmation Sunday at the church. I wasn’t directly involved in the confirmation process, but my morning was filled with church activities. As a member of the Methodist Men, I was there to help prepare the Confirmation Breakfast for the confirmands, their families, and their mentors. During a… Read More »Can I Get Confirmation?
I felt before I went into the HDR Nik Plugin, I should cover the HDR Toning features that are built into Photoshop. So here is a quick look at the High Dynamic Range toning options in Photoshop. Original Image Color Correction and the Chain has been Removed Flat City Twilight… Read More »High Ding Dong Range Toning
I’ve been looking forward to this week’s theme since I wrote it on a green Post-It Note and dropped it in the hat. Jesse Howard, long time Photography 139 supporter and apparent beard lover, entered his first submission. Hopefully it is the beginning of many more. Let’s look at the… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 30 – RUINS
This is even more rehashier of the post 2 weeks ago and last week the new information is in bold. Only a handful of you understand the photo I posted to start this post. But that is okay. You might understand in a few weeks, or you might just be… Read More »I Further Celebrate Myself More
This folder, entitled SNOW, comes from January of 2007. Next week’s folder is entitled 02-22-07. Probably pretty obvious what is in that folder.
Recently my WB Joe stumbled across an article that Google had made their Nik Plugins free. I rushed to the website and downloaded this collection of 7 plugins to play with immediately. I thought I would give you a quick overview of some of the settings of these plugins, starting… Read More »Analog Efex Pro
Some TREE pictures I didn’t select for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE a few weeks back. Man these pictures are pathetic losers. No offense.
On my recent trip to Kansas I stopped and took a few photos here and there. Kansans were burning their prairie, which made for interesting views. I missed a golden opportunity to get a pretty sweet fire picture. So I did stop to get a picture of the aftermath of… Read More »Desolation View
On the Saturday before Easter I was sitting in a darkened in theater in Ankeny experiencing the “tortures of the damned” that is watching BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN, my phone buzzed. Since the movie picture had lost my interest moments into it, I felt no guilt in checking my text message.… Read More »Jesus Eggs!
SHAPES is definitely one of the harder compositions to think about conceptually. However, there were a few submissions this week. Here is a look at the submissions for SHAPES: Sarah Karber Angie DeWaard Christopher D. Bennett Kim Barker Bill Wentworth But enough living in the past. What is this week’s… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 29 – SHAPES
This is mostly a rehash of the “Save the Date or Don’t” Post from last Saturday. A few updates. In italics. Only a handful of you understand the photo I posted to start this post. But that is okay. You might understand in a few weeks, or you might just… Read More »I Further Celebrate Myself
This week’s collection was supposed to be from the folder SNOW. That folder is just too large to go through in a weekend that involved 15 or so hours in the car. So I skipped ahead to STORE, because it is considerably less ambitious. In this small collection is an… Read More »Store
I took a couple of other images before picking my Easter image. Here are the other 2. One I actually sent out with Happy Easter text messages. In the end, I found the Jesus statue to be a bit confusing and the cross on top my church to be derivative… Read More »Matthew 28:6
This is the last photo from my trip to Minnehaha Falls from February. Because of recent events, I’ll probably be visiting Minneapolis again in the near future. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm APERTURE: f/20 EXPOSURE: 8 seconds DATE: 02/26/2016 – 18:14 LATITUDE: 44.91549° LONGITUDE: -93.21059° PHOTO… Read More »Minnehaha Fallen
This image is the result of an experiment in post-processing. When I have a good solid wedge of free time, I will explain in further detail with a ton of examples. Or I might not. Magician and his tricks… you know. For now, just enjoy this image of the fallen… Read More »Post Process
Today’s journal entry is from the SHAMELESS PHOTOGRAPHY 139 FUNDRAISING DIVISION. THIS Thursday night my church’s Youth Group is having a fundraiser at Panera Bread in Ames. From 4 – 8 PM, bring in the flyer below and a percentage of the cost of your meal will go to help… Read More »Panera Youth Group Mission Trip Fundraiser Night!
This week being more of a challenging theme, it was expected that participation might take a dip. However, on the positive side, my nephew Logan became a first time contributor. I’m expecting big things from that guy in the future. The submissions for SILHOUETTE: Bill Wentworth Logan Kahler 1 Logan… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 28 – SILHOUETTE
I would like to take this time to wish everybody a Happy Easter with this picture: I hope all of you had as wonderful of an Easter weekend as I did. Christ is risen. Let us rejoice!
Only a handful of you understand the photo I posted to start this post. But that is okay. You might understand in a few weeks, or you might just be even more confused. Here is the information that you need to know. My personal Edith Head, my personal staff man,… Read More »I Celebrate Myself
These images are still from January 2007. The come from a folder called SCULPTURE GARDEN. They appear to be from a trip to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with Bethany. Next week’s folder is called SNOW.
These are a little old, but if you haven’t figured out yet that there isn’t much rhyme or reason to what I post when, you might’ve been born yesterday. A couple of photos from ABSTRACT that I didn’t use. I’ll have rejected tree pictures up sooner than that. I swear.… Read More »Stock Car Flamin’