Here are some general pictures from my recent trips to the Iowa State Fair with Baby Got Rack, Stephanie, Kelly, Yin, Jeff, and the Beavers! I was going to tell this story about the New Jersey woman I met that was just the worst. Like all people from New Jersey.… Read More »It’s Dollars to Doughnuts!
When I woke up and drove to work this morning, the winds and the sky were amazing. I had to stop the car and take a picture. Unfortunately, because the earliness of the morning and the darkness of the clouds and not having the right equipment, I instead cracked out… Read More »High Winds
Check out this pathetic collection of losers from the ARCHITECTURE theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Thanks for taking the time to help me mock these images.
I had a bunch of losers this week for ART and THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here they are: Thanks for joining me here to mock this collection of pathetic losers!
Here lieth a few PERSPECTIVE attempts that weren’t quite up to snuff. Such a sad and pathetic bunch. THE CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT TRIVIA QUIZ QUESTION 14 This year I will be going on my 5th Mission Trip with my church’s Youth Group. Name the 4 places I have already gone:… Read More »Don’t Believe Everything that You Breathe
Here is another photo from the work afternoon I spent with a group of people turning the old grain elevator in west Ames into an “art place”. This was painted onto a window on the third or fourth floor. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V FOCAL LENGTH: Unrecorded APERTURE: Unrecorded EXPOSURE: 1/80… Read More »Gannon and Duarte
This Sunday the Youth Group from my church is having a fundraiser for our Mission Trip to Milwaukee. It is a two tiered fundraising effort. When: Sunday 2-4 PM Where: The Historic J.B. McHose House – 921 5th Street – Boone, IA But what is it? I’ll just steal Alisa’s… Read More »J.B. McHose House
These are the SHAPES pictures that didn’t make the cut. All eerily similar to the one that did make the cut. Almost like they were all taken in the same place. Interesting Richard. Yes provocative. When I stopped to photograph all of these magnificent SHAPES, I got quite the history… Read More »Baby’s in Reno with the Vitamin D
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
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.
As I’ve posted about before, I spent my weekend (a few weekends back) with my church’s youth group on their annual retreat to the Y Camp. Here are some pictures I took with a cruddy camera phone of the weekend. Jentry being oh so scary. Docking Time! Shawn, enjoying the… Read More »Docking Station Alpha
There aren’t as many people out there that are as passionate about a TREE as they are about their PET. However, the people that have passion are very passionate. Here are this week’s submissions for TREE: Bill Wentworth Kim Barker 1 Kim Barker 2 Sarah Karber Angie DeWaard 1 Angie… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 27 – TREE
Here is a collection of images I took for the WEEKLY CHALLENGE, that didn’t make the cut. JUNK, GRAFFITI, MUSIC, and LANDMARK are all included. I’ll try to be better next time.
When you read the subject of this entry, you probably thought that this post was going to be about the Iowa Caucuses, but actually it is an image from my most recent trip to visit Nate and Laura. Behold! Laura tells me that it is quite the thing for people… Read More »Check Out this A Hole!
It is exciting times around the PHOTOGRAPHY 139 WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS. There is a first time submitter in Dustin Jackson this week. Dustin is a very talented photographer and I would encourage you to follow him on his Facebook page, if you haven’t. I would post a link, but then I’d… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 19 – GRAFFITI
Looking at these images I think I might go back to my old school way of lining up images with their months in 2017. If I walk away from the all flower calendar. I guess we’ll see how that plays out. January February March April May June July August September… Read More »2012
SURPRISE AHEAD A short story By Christopher D. Bennett Age 10 Write what the pictures tell. Pictures are of a family in a station wagon driving down a road and the luggage that has been strapped to the top of the car has fallen off. At a small town, in… Read More »Superfluff Chronicles No.1 – SURPRISE AHEAD – Age 10
Although I haven’t touched the real camera lately, I have sorta documented some stuff with my cruddy camera on my phone. Thought I would post some of those from the last few months. Remember, these are taken with a cruddy camera phone. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve already… Read More »Phonetos – Vol. 1
Found this guy at Antique Archaeology in LeClaire. If I were to hazard a guess, I would guess that we heard customers ask at least 10 times if Mike and Frank were there. At least 10 times.
The inside of this awesome castle type thing that Nate and I found on Vine Street. We really should have went inside of it and explored it but Nate was worried about being stabbed by homeless man, but we will return here some day.
Another look at giant shuttlecocks. Although I did enjoy some of the sculptures in Kansas City, the best sculpture garden I’ve ever seen is still in Des Moines. Go Cyclone State!