Time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. This is the final collection of images from the photo shoot with Elainie & Sabas from last fall. There aren’t many pictures left to share, so this is a pretty small collection.
I only have one more formal portrait photo shoot to share. Hopefully we will start on that one next Sunday.
Time once again for another Formal Portrait Sunday. Once again, sharing a collection of pictures from when I took portraits for Elainie and Sabas last year.
Here are some of my favorites:
I still have one more small collection of images from this photo shoot left to share. How about same time, same place, next Sunday.
I’ve finally gotten around to having another Formal Portrait Sunday. I don’t take many formal portraits, so I don’t have many of these. This one though is dedicated to some pictures I took of Elainie and Sabas from a few months back.
Here are some of my favorites:
Still plenty more pictures from this photo shoot to share in the future!
Happy New Year to those of you sheeple that follow the Gregorian Calendar. I for one, moved to Unix time years ago. So if I have a birthday party this year (Sara wants me to have one, but I doubt it happens) the invites will list the time of the event in Unix Time, like an adult. But I don’t want to tell you what calendar to use.
I think you should look at the options. By the Gregorian Calendar, when this post publishes, it is the year 2022. But there are other calendars.
Here is a list of other calendars and what year it is if you use those calendars:
Hebrew – 5783
Islamic – 1444
Chinese – 4659
Coptic – 1739
Japanese – Reiwa 4
British Regnal – 1 Cha. 3
Buddhist – 2566
Nanakshahi – 554
Hindu – 5123
Juche – 111
Byzantine – 7531
Roman – 2775
Holocene – 12022
Unix Time (like an adult): 1672531199 (roughly)
As you can tell, Unix Time is clearly superior.
Even though I don’t celebrate New Years, I do like to give holiday Power Rankings.
Here are my champagne power rankings:
CHAMPAGNE POWER RANKINGS
10. All champagne is trash.
9. All champagne is trash.
8. All champagne is trash.
7. All champagne is trash.
6. All champagne is trash.
5. All champagne is trash.
4. All champagne is trash.
3. All champagne is trash.
2. All champagne is trash.
1. Champere
So Happy New Years to those who celebrate it. I will have been asleep a couple hours when the bell tolls for 2022. I’m old, lame, and don’t get invited to adult parties.
Time to reveal the December image for the 2023 Photography 139 Gregorian Calendar:
The December image is a picture of the old mill in Independence, Iowa. I took it while harvesting the town signs of Buchanan County for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. In retrospect, it isn’t a great image for the brutal colds and snows of December. But it was the last selected image and December was the last month that didn’t have an image. These things tend to sort themselves out.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M4
DATE: May 28, 2022 – 9:41 AM
LENS: Tamron 17-28 f/2.8
FOCAL LENGTH: 28mm
APERTURE: f/9
EXPOSURE: 1/320
ISO: 100
EXPOSURE BIAS: +.3
I have no calendar images to share tomorrow. Or again until December. If the Photography 139 Calendar exists again in 2024.
This year when I handed a calendar to somebody I asked them to pick a favorite image. Then I photographed them with their favorite image. I also asked people that I didn’t hand deliver a calendar to to pick a favorite image and then send me a picture of them with that image. Like 3 people did that. So good for them? Not that such treachery might factor in who gets a calendar next year…
I forgot to do this for the attendees of the Westhaven Christmas, so this won’t be held against them. Maybe Nate. I did ask him and he said “No problem” and then never sent me a picture.
Any way here is a collection of, but not comprehensive collection of pictures of people with their favorite pictures from the calendar:
Bethany and Nora
Colleen
Also Colleen
Also, also Colleen
Andy
Baier (Jason)
More Baiers (Olivia)
More Baiers (Ben)
More Baiers (Carrie and J.J.)
More Baiers (Will)
Russell
Michelle
Elizabeth
Willy
Micky
Kio
Kim
Brandon
Teresa
Logan
Elainie
Sabas
Johnathan
Jason
Carla
Dawn
Lockners
Gorshes
Scott
Anders
Becky
Alexis
Jesse
Jay
Nader
It is possible more pictures might trickle in, if people I mailed calendars to haven’t received them yet. I think every picture got picked except for January. Poor January. Might try this again next year. We’ll see if the people like it.
This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is BODY PART:
IT IS POSSIBLE I MIGHT ROAD TRIP ON MONDAY. IF I DO, THERE WILL BE NO ADDITIONAL REMINDERS. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!!!
BODY PART! What a great final theme for Year 9 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what is a BODY PART image? Simply put, it is a picture where a major compositional element of the image is a BODY PART. Doesn’t have to be your BODY PART. Could be somebody else’s. It could belong to an animal. There are so many BODY PART(s) to choose from! Heads. Shoulders. Knees. Toes. Just to name a few.
Happy photo harvesting!
Looking at my SELFIE PROJECT pictures from the month of October, I’m not sure I had a very active October. Seems like I barely left my house. I’ll try to be more active in November.
Here are some of my favorite selfies from THE SELFIE PROJECT in October:
October 2
October 4
October 5
October 6
October 7
October 8
October 10
October 11
October 12
October 14
October 15
October 16
October 17
October 19
October 20
October 21
October 22
October 23
October 25
October 27
October 29
October 30
I didn’t take any extra selfies this much. I might do better in November. There are no promises.
The pictures in the folders 2011-05-22, 2011-05-26, and 2011-05-27 are mostly of irises, a flower that is well-documented to be my least favorite flower. There are also pictures from Elainie’s high school graduation and one picture from the Left Behind Party Funk and I had, but was really hosted by Sara.
The Left Behind Party, took place a few days after a billboard in Boone claimed that the world was going to end. It did not, or at least we weren’t raptured. Which is pretty much okay with me, cause I don’t believe in the rapture. Think it was something some dude just pulled out of his bum in the 19th century.
By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:
RWPE Y2 #21 – ODD CAMERA ANGLE
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve Evie.
I don’t know that I did all that much in February that will made THE SELFIE PROJECT all that interesting. I guess I did spend a week in Pittsburgh, but there was no real free time on that trip, so you might find those selfies disappointing. However, I did manage to take a few images that I liked. Here are my favorites from February of THE SELFIE PROJECT:
February 2
February 3
February 5
February 6
February 8
February 9
February 10
February 12
February 14
February 15
February 16
February 17
February 18
February 19
February 22
February 24
February 26
February 27
February 28
Here are some of favorite alternate pictures for THE SELFIE PROJECT:
I will try to be more impressive in March.
This Formal Portrait Sunday comes from a photo shoot I did with the Stenslands. It was a pretty brief photo shoot, so I can include this in just one journal entry.
Here are some of my favorites from the day:
Next Sunday’s formal portrait collection will return to the photo shoot with Alexis’ family.
The pictures in the folders 2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14 are mostly from a Mother’s Day celebration we held at my house. But there are also pictures there from the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT (now known as THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE) and Logan running track.
By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve the greenhouse formerly known as the Northwest Greenhouse.
The July image from the 2022 Calendar is a picture of an Easter lily.
Tomorrow I will share the August image.
Last Saturday a few people got together at Teresa’s house to make Christmas treats. I stopped by to take a few pictures.
I think next year Johnathan, Logan, and Brandon might get an invite. However, I’m not in charge, so we’ll see.
