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The Archives: Edition Two

These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/2005 Calendar

I’m pretty sure these are the files from the 2nd year of the calendar, although it is possible that it was the 3rd or 1st year of the calendar. My records on such things are spotty at best.

In the early days of the calendar I made “individualized” calendars, but I only made 3 calendars back then, so it was somewhat easy to do. That is why there are more than 12 images in this folder.

These pictures would have been taken in 2004.


2005 Calendar - April
Until “Outburst of the Soul” this was the most popular picture I ever made. To this date, I believe it is the only picture I’ve ever taken that inspired a musical composition.

2005 Calendar - August

2005 Calendar - December
This is the first digital picture I ever took.

2005 Calendar - December Alternate

2005 Calendar - February

2005 Calendar - January
This picture was taken in Tulum near Cozumel. It was also fairly popular in its day.

2005 Calendar - July
This picture was taken between Upper Cullen Lake and Middle Cullen Lake in Minnesota.

2005 Calendar - June
This was the 1st (kind of feels like the last) picture I had accepted to the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. Apparently I’ve regressed as a photographer since this photo, the peak of my photography “career”.

2005 Calendar - March

2005 Calendar - May

2005 Calendar - November

2005 Calendar - October
I once had this terrible idea called the Beaver Machete Project. I’ll probably have to explain this later, but I’m going to buy myself a week or so to think of a good excuse for why I thought this was a good idea.

2005 Calendar September

2005 Calendar - September Alternate

Next week’s look at the archives will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Animals

A cursory glance of this folder reveals very few pictures of animals.

Small bookkeeping note, with this Journal Entry, Teresa becomes the 6th Person to be featured, mentioned, or alluded to in 100 entries. I’m sure she’ll put that on her resume.

RWPE Y2 #4: Harmony

Apparently there aren’t a ton of HARMONY lovers out there. I’m kind of surprised by the lack of participation this week, but what can you do. You buckle down and you carry on.

Here are the few submissions for this week:


WEEK 4 - HARMONY - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
Christopher D. Bennett

IMAGE LOST
Carla Stensland A

IMAGE LOST
Carla Stensland B

WEEK 4 - HARMONY - MIKE VEST
Mike Vest

I got up close and personal with the Random Theme Generator this week. It didn’t like it much, but it still spit out the following theme:

MACRO


What is macro photography?

To quote Wikipedia:

“The classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” is close to the same size as the subject. On 35 mm film, the lens is typically optimized to focus sharply on a small area approaching the size of the film frame. Most 35mm format macro lenses achieve at least 1:2, that is to say, the image on the film is 1/2 the size of the object being photographed. Many 35mm macro lenses are 1:1, meaning the image of the film is the same size as the object being photographed.
In recent years, the term macro has been used in marketing material to mean being able to focus on a subject close enough so that when a regular 6×4 inch print is made, the image is life-size or larger. With 35mm film this requires a magnification ratio of approximately 1:4, which demands a lower lens quality than 1:1. With digital cameras the actual image size is rarely stated, so that the magnification ratio is largely irrelevant; cameras instead advertise their closest focusing distance.”

The best way to think of the technical way to look at this project is that macro photography is close up photography of something that is small.

Here are a couple of examples:


Inferiority Complex - 2010

2007

Follow this link to look back at last year’s MACRO submissions:

MACRO

Good luck with this theme. Remember, most cameras have a MACRO setting. It is the little icon that looks like a flower.

Slice of Life Vol. 30

It is my habit to not comment on the pictures I post in this project, but I’m going to make a small exception here.

In the first couple of pictures, Carla is sitting on the old abandoned well in the basement of our old house on 415 Greene Street.

I was never allowed to even go near this well because my Mom feared that I would fall in it and be lost to the ages.

The fact that Carla was allowed to sit on this means 1 of 2 things to me:

1. She was the favorite child.
2. She was the expendable child.

I’m not sure what is the correct answer, but I’m fairly certain that my Mom never saw these pictures.


Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

Slice of Life Volume 30

A couple of more observations.

Usually there is always a ton of Alexis in Carla’s childhood pictures, but I’m struck in these pictures how much Johnathan there is.

Don’t be surprised when I steal some of these mirror ideas in the future.

RWPE #42 – Shadows

I think that at the aggregate level, this is the best batch of submissions to date. Here are the submissions for SHADOWS:


WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - SHANNON BARDOLE
Shannon Bardole

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
Christopher D. Bennett

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - BECKY PERKOVICH
Becky Perkovich

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - CARLA STENSLAND
Carla Stensland A

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - CARLA STENSLAND
Carla Stensland B

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - DAWN KRAUSE
Dawn Krause

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - MIKE VEST
Michael Vest

WEEK 42 - SHADOWS - JULIE JOHNSON
Julie Johnson

Dawn’s Poetry Submission

Shadows

Something lurks beneath the bright
It shies away from the light
Peripheral image that can’t be seen
What can that phantom visual mean?

Sense the dark as it closes in
Suffocates like a hidden sin
Run to a meadow open and free
Take a moment to breathe and see

The sun was shining just last week
Now the sky seems cold and bleak
Oh won’t the sun come out and play
Chase the shadows and gloom awa

I’ve walked the rocky trail that leads to the cottage that houses the Random Theme Generator. I gave it a cookie and it spit out the theme for this week:

SMOKE PHOTOGRAPHY

A compelling and interesting theme. I look forward to seeing the submissions and seeing what creative ways people waft with this theme.

CLU’s Holiday

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 after a number of Americans were murdered by the military during the Pullman Strike. After the massacre, President Grover Cleveland made reconciliation with unions a top political priority. Making Labor Day a national holiday was his form of reconciliation.

I celebrated Grover Cleveland’s political savvy and everything unions have done for this country and the memory of the 13 strikers murdered during the Pullman Strike by having the family over for a barbecue. Here are a few pictures:


Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day - 2010

Labor Day Toad

Labor Day Toad

Labor Day Toad

Labor Day Toad

Hope your Labor Day was as joyous as mine.

State Fair Trip 2 – Collection 1

A few pictures from my trip to the State Fair with Nader. We met up with Mom, Carla and Alexis. Later we met up briefly with the Baiers. I won them some Upper Iowa University band aids. I’m guessing their “Thank You” is in the mail.

At the end of the day Nader thanked me for the best day he has had all year. Quite frankly I wonder why more people don’t thank me for such things.


Iowa State Fair - 2010
Alexis’ cheerleading group ran through their routine, but didn’t do any of the actual dangerous stuff.

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010
Star Boars

Iowa State Fair - 2010
This sand sculpture is actually more interesting than the movies.

Iowa State Fair - 2010
I love this painting! I want it hanging in my house. Just not for $300 smackers.

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010
Alexis won a medal in a tumbling competition that didn’t look the safest to me.

Iowa State Fair - 2010
Nader seemed to think this sculpture was of him.

Iowa State Fair - 2010
In one of my favorite buildings Pioneer Hall.

Iowa State Fair - 2010

Iowa State Fair - 2010
A “Mark Twain” style storyteller.

A few more pictures coming on the morrow.