All posts by Christopher D. Bennett

Photo Gallery Websites

April 2, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

I’m sure most of you will consider this to be one of the most boring posts you’ve ever read, but since it symbolizes a ton of work from me and even more work from Vest, it shouldn’t be allowed to pass without acknowledgement.

I have (with the considerable aid of Vest) updated and upgraded my two photo galleries. There were three steps involved in this activity.

First, we updated the Coppermime shell from version 1.4.13 to version 1.5.12. This adds quite the improvement in functionality for me, although you probably won’t see much of a change.

Second, I changed the theme from 2BorNot2B to TwentyTen. You will definitely notice that the galleries have a different look to them.

Third, we integrated the galleries into WordPress pages. This should be the most obvious change to the casual viewer. This makes the galleries more consistent with the rest of the website and makes navigation amongst the galleries and the rest of the pages on the website quite a bit simpler. Plus, it looks quite a bit better. If you have bookmarked the old URLs for the galleries, they still function perfectly. However, you will not be able to get to those URLs through the website.

Thanks to these changes, I’m opening picture commentary in the galleries back to “Guests”, meaning you don’t have to be logged in to leave a comment on a picture. Last time I attempted such a thing I was overwhelmed with SPAM, but I’m hoping the considerable security upgrades and the addition of CAPTCHA will create an influx of commentators, but keep out the SPAMMERS.

I’m also in the process of adding new headers to the website. The header should change when you visit a different page, but at this time I only have two headers, so it is definitely a work in progress.

So, go check out the new revamped galleries and leave a comment or two or three…

Artistic Gallery

Snapshots Gallery

I’m also in the exploratory stages of actually getting my online store open. It looks like it will cost me about 150 bucks to get it going. Now I just have to convince myself that I could make that 150 bucks back by opening such a store. Any thoughts?

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse, Personal Photo Project

Personal Photo Project of the Week #61

April 1, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

Jesse – 9 Emotions

Jesse’s take on the 9 emotions. If you have forgotten, these are the 9 emotions. Left to right. Top to bottom.

1. Joy
2. Sadness
3. Anger
4. Amusement
5. Fear
6. Jealousy
7. Surprise
8. Sympathy
9. Boredom

A closer look at Jesse’s interpretation of these 9 emotions:

Joy

Sadness

Angry

Amusement

Fear

Jealousy

Surprise

Sympathy

Boredom

The next person to pose for the 9 Emotions Project was Jay.

Jay – 9 Emotions

A closer look at Jay’s characterizations of the 9 emotions.

Joy

Sadness

Anger

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Amusement

Fear

Jealousy

Surprise

Sympathy

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Boredom

Next week’s Personal Photo Project of the Week will involve the Statue of Liberty.

Dad, Slice of Life

Slice of Life Vol. 43

March 31, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 6 Comments

I wish I knew where some of these train pictures were taken.

Black & White, Christianity, Jesse, Sarah Toot, Still Life, Street Photography, Travel

More Random New York City – Near Ground Zero

March 30, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

Here are some random New York City images from the Second Day of the trip. These were taken at and around Ground Zero and at St. Paul’s Chapel, which is across the street from Ground Zero.

Regrettably, some of these pictures were taken through a window, leading to a regrettable reflection.

More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday.

Derrick, Jen, Scottie D.

The Archives: Edition Ten

March 29, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures come from backup/Old My Pictures/Deg-Porter Wedding

These pictures were taken at Scott and Melissa’s wedding. The last wedding I was in until Jen & Derrick’s wedding.

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Mr. Porter

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Scottie D. all tuxed up!

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Scottie D. in black and white.

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Scottie D in glorious color.

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Setting up chairs.

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Posing for George

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Future Mrs. Porter

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Nate

Next week’s folder will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Egg Toss

Black & White, Cathie, Julie, Still Life, Vest, WPC - Submissions

RWPE Y2 #12 – Unfocused

March 28, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

There were a fair amount of submissions for UNFOCUSED. So without further adieu…

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Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey

Cathie Raley

Will Raley

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Mike Vest of Waxen Media

I’ve been over to visit the the Random Theme Generator to get a sweet new theme for this week. It spit out the following sweetness:

FAST

Here is a look back at last year’s FAST submissions:

2010 – FAST

Good luck capturing some FAST subjects.

HOUSEKEEPING

Information no longer relevant.

Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse, Jill, Personal Photo Project, Photoshop, Shannon

Personal Photo Project of the Week #60

March 25, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Think Negative

There were two points to this project. My first point was that I wanted to scan a negative. In this day and age, it is a borderline revolutionary act to use film. Unfortunately I have let too much time and space get between me and my film camera(s). This is an injustice that I hope to remedy this year.

My first point was to make sure the viewer knew that this picture was taken with film. However, initially I felt that just scanning a negative so you knew it was a negative wouldn’t be enough. This lead to my 2nd point.

I was going to hit these negatives with a hammer. This is somewhat loosely based on something I did a long time ago when I printed a picture and then crumpled it up and then rescanned the picture.

However, this photo project lead me down several different avenues and in the end hitting the negatives with a hammer didn’t really produce the result I was looking to produce.

Here are some of the other images and other avenues I ventured down.

I did point out to everybody that I photographed that I would be hitting their picture with a hammer and not to be offended by that fact. Amazingly none of them were.

Next week I’ll return to publishing pictures from the 9 Emotions Project. Jesse and Jay are next up in the hopper.

Carla, Dad, Slice of Life

Slice of Life Vol. 42

March 24, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

The weird thing about these pictures is that I’ve never seen them before, but one of the pictures is eerily similar to a picture I took for RWPE last year.

The watch in a couple of these pictures also showed up in a RWPE picture last year.

Animals, Jesse, Music, Sarah Toot, Steph, Street Photography, Travel

Random New York City Images

March 23, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

Even though I only recently started the tradition of posting movie reviews on Wednesdays, I’m already walking away from that tradition. I want to keep this website about photography as much as possible, so I’m going to start posting my movie reviews on my collective blog:

Robot Monster Bros.

If you were to follow that link, you would not find any movie reviews. You will find an explanation of why I do my movie reviews the way I do. You will also find a posting the 10 Things I Learned in NYC. In the near future, I should have a review of Cedar Rapids up.

Wednesdays now will be more of a random photography day. This way I get more photography on the photography website and more writing on the writing website.

Here are some random pictures from my trip to New York City:

The Carnegie Deli, our first stop after the hotel.

The Melo – That is what I am talking about!

Maybe the best cheesecake of my life.

Central Park

Central Park Horse

Manhattan Skyline from Central Park

Broadway

David Letterman does not amuse me, but this was still kind of cool.

“Don’t want to be an American Idiot. Don’t want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind (fudge) America….”

Want to know what 72 dollars worth of alcohol looks like in NYC? Sarah and Tim are showing it off.

Steph and I after American Idiot

Jesse and I after American Idiot

Amy’s Bread’s Red Velvet Cake. Tim said this would be the best red velvet cake of my life. Shhh…. My Mom’s is better!

Sarah and I outside of Amy’s Bread

More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday and don’t forget to check out the other website for my list of 10 things I learned in NYC.

Jesse, Kelly

The Archives: Edition Nine

March 22, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Cruise Vacation – 2004 – December/PICTURES

These pictures were mostly taken by Kelly on the Howard’s new digital camera, probably purchased on the Home Shopping Network.

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O’Hare

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Hot cup of tea always hits the spot on vacation.

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Much ado about nothing.

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Leaving Miami

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Miami

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Leaving Miami

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Titanic

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On the dance floor.

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Haiti

Next week’s folder will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Deg-Porter Wedding