Category Archives: Johnathan

Alexis, Brandon, Carla, Elainie, Formal Portrait, Iowa State, Jason, Johnathan, Logan, Mom, Teresa

One of Nature’s Masterpieces

April 19, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Time to hit the backlog again. Here are some family pictures we took when Elainie was in town… back in March… 2017.

Unfortunately, the weather was terrible that day, so we were trapped inside. Hopefully, next time we do a family portrait, the weather will be more cooperative.

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A Minor Announcement

Just wanted to let everybody know, as we are now less than one month from my birthday, that I will not be having the birthday party this year. Time just escaped from me and I don’t have the time to plan such a shindig. Better luck next year.

Alexis, Basketball, Black & White, Boone FUMC, Brandon, Carla, Christianity, Elainie, Event, History, Holidays, Jason, Jaycees, Johnathan, Mom, Music, Shannon, Teresa

03-25-08

March 17, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

These are the pictures from the folder 03-25-08:

By restoring these photos to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following classic blog entries to their former glory:

MY HAPPY EASTER
THURSDAY NIGHT WITH KOUNTERTOP (PT.1)
A NEW GIG
RELAY FOR LIFE

The picture of me dunking is not a photo trick or a lowered hoop, I’m sure.

I’m not quite sure why I took the religious photos. But I like them.

The Easter photos are interesting because this year we won’t be celebrating Easter on Easter for the first time that I can ever remember. Mom is heading to Virginia with her favorite child that weekend. I might have my own private Air Fryer Easter that day.

The pictures of Shannon are from when she started at United Way. She needed a head shot for some kind of press release or newsletter or to hang in the company bathroom. I’m not really sure. However, I am 100% sure that Shannon will continue to work at The United Way for the foreseeable future. She will probably retire from there.

Next week’s walk down memory lane will involve snow.

Art, Johnathan, Kim, Photoshop, Tamara, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 125 – JEALOUSY

February 6, 2018 Christopher D. Bennett

Finally finding some spare time to get the submissions for last week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE published. The theme was JEALOUSY:

Tamara Peterson

Kim Barker

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But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:

SMALL TOWN!

SMALL TOWN! What a great theme! But what is a SMALL TOWN photo? A SMALL TOWN photo is anything that is suggestive of a SMALL TOWN. From businesses to water towers to schools to parks.

As always, I look forward to seeing your interpretations.

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

1. The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.

2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date. It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.

That is it, them’s the rules.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION

I’m pleased to announce that Johnathan Stensland is the latest to show taste, class, and sophistication by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. Johnathan is my nephew and my most recent roommate. Like all people with Bennett genes, he is a badass. If you see him walking the mean streets of rural Boone County, feel free to give him a knowing glance and show him the super secret Photography 139 handshake.

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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very small town Monday!

Alexis, Animals, Art, Black & White, Brandon, Event, Flowers, Johnathan, Logan, Mom, Teresa

Mother’s Day – 2017

December 17, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Hitting the backlog for pictures from the Bennett Family Mother’s Day Barbecue:

I hope when you celebrated Mother’s Day 6 months ago, it was as awesome as our Mother’s Day celebration!

Alexis, Alisa, Anders, Animals, Baier, Becca, Bethany, Bill, Brandon, Carla, Derrick, Elainie, Evie, Flat Earth Joe, Holidays, House, Iowa State, Jason, Jay, Jen, Jesse, Johnathan, Jorge, Logan, Mom, Movies, Nader, Naima, Nate, Pastor Sarah, Sara, Sarah Toot, Scottie D., Shannon, Shorty, Tenderloining, Teresa, Tim, Willy, Youth Group

Won’t Take that Credit; I know Where We Get It; Them Blessings Be Comin’ from God Above

November 23, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Rather than my standard picture of an inflatable turkey, thought (with apologies to Lecrae, I’d give thanks for some of the many blessings in my life.

Count it up, count it up, count it up.
Line ’em up, line ’em up, line ’em up.

Blessed with a tremendous biological family. Blessed to share DNA and a life with these people.

Blessed to be a part of Olivia’s family. Blessed to learn a new definition of the word “family” from Shorty and Doris.

Blessed to be a part of an incredible church family. From Youth Group to Methodist Men to the people I see in the pews on Sundays.

Blessed to have a job and double blessed to have a great work family. 7 AM comes pretty early, but so many of the people I work with make the struggle worth the effort.

Blessed to share a life with this band of brothers. Not one of us has any fashion sense, but I’d still take a bullet for any of them.

Blessed to fit in with this band of sisters as well.

Blessed to be able to share my love of weird cinema with like minded individuals once a month.

Blessed to be a Cyclone and double blessed to have somebody to share so many trips to Jack Trice (a spiritual place for me) with.

Blessed to have a roof over my head that belongs to me. Blessed that I can extend that roof over friends and family when their life needs it. Blessed that when I say, “Want to help paint by house?” 20+ people show up.

Blessed that friends from past jobs are still important pillars of my current life.

Blessed that people that aren’t related to me consider me an uncle to them.

Blessed to have a car that I can drive out of town and not worry about the tire falling off.

Blessed to have so many people in my life that when I say, “I’m coming to your city”, they say, “You’re staying with us right?”

Blessed to have so many people in my life that fill gaps.

Blessed that even though I’m aged, I still healthy enough to still ball. Although pretty poorly these days.

Blessed that even though I’m aged, I still have people in my life that keep me young.

Blessed to have people in my life that want to change the world for the better, when I get cynical.

Blessed to have art in my life.

Blessed to have a beautiful beard. Even if the old guys at my church hate it.

Blessed to have people who will help with projects like this, no questions asked.

Blessed to share a life and a domicile with this crazy beast. Teaches me about selfless love every single day.

Blessed to have a chance to spread my blessings to others, sometimes, with some of my favorite people.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of my blessings. But I don’t want it to start to sound like I’m bragging.

Boone FUMC, Event, Johnathan, Kio, Logan

A Methodist Trio

November 8, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Here is a collection of photos from 3 Methodist events. The Event Formerly Known as the Methodist Men Steak Fry, Safe Trick-or-Treat Night at the Eastern Star Home, and Consecration Sunday Brunch.

One of the bizarre things about the world of social media is that bizarre things happen. I posted a picture of Johnathan and Logan grilling for the Event Formerly Known as the Methodist Men Steak Fry on our church’s Facebook page thanking everybody that made the event such a smashing success.

A lady from the church left a comment on the photo tagging her husband with the comment, “See (husband name) they are cool.”

I don’t know what she meant by this comment, but here is my theory:

This lady has tried to get her husband to be active in the Methodist Men. He has openly dismissed her because the Methodist Men are “lame” and “uncool”. However, when she saw a picture of two dudes participating in Methodist Men activities like Logan and Johnathan that are undeniably cool and comport themselves with a little bit of their uncle’s well-documented badassness, she felt that this would be the example that would make her husband see that the Methodist Men aren’t “lame”. In fact, we are “cool”.

In fact, we are pretty lame. But their is coolness in lameness when you own it.

Becca, Brandon, Dawn, Derrick, Jesse, Johnathan, Logan, Mom, Nader, Scottie D., Self-Portrait, Self-Portrait Project, Teresa, Youth Group

The Selfie Project – September

October 4, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Here is a look back at my favorite September photos from THE SELFIE PROJECT:

September 1

September 2

September 6

September 7

September 10

September 15

September 16

September 17

September 20

September 21

September 23

September 24

September 25

September 26

September 27

September 28

September 29

And if you can’t wait for these monthly updates, you can follow THE SELFIE PROJECT’S daily updates by following me on Instagram:

@christopherdbennett

I think I had a pretty decent September. Hopefully October treats me well.

Johnathan, Logan, Photo Journal, Self-Portrait

A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 59

September 28, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

On Labor Day I was able to take a picture for Page 59 of the Photo Journal:

Page 59 – Take a picture of yourself as yourself.

Logan assisted with the production by moving the camera here and there. Johnathan watched in a distance.

While most people will disagree, I think that I don’t take enough pictures of rubber dinosaurs. Probably should get on that.

Faust, Football, History, Jay, Johnathan, Willy

11-03-07

September 23, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 11-03-07 are from the Iowa State-Kansas State game. Including a couple pictures of a guy whose family owns a restaurant near Manhattan. I think he might have played professionally for a team with a really ugly color scheme.

There are many more pictures from that folder. If you want to see them, click on the link below:

2007 – IOWA STATE CYCLONES FOOOTBALL

I will add that this post allowed me to “restore” the post below:

A GREAT SATURDAY

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve some pictures of one of the world’s worst humans and some experimental photography.

Angie, Candid Portrait, Cathie, Johnathan, Michelle, Micky, Mom, Shannon, Tamara, Teresa, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 105 – FAMILY

September 18, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

A pretty decent amount of submissions to ring in Year 3 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE (REDUX). Including a submission from first time submitter Katelyn Augustin. She also might be the youngest to ever submit as well.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came here to see the submissions. Here they are:

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Tamara Peterson

Teresa Kahler 1

Teresa Kahler 2

Katelyn Augustin

Micky Augustin

Angie DeWaard

Cathie Raley 1

Craig Haupt

Cathie Raley 2

Michelle Haupt

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A solid week of submissions!

NATURE!

NATURE! What a great theme!! I don’t think I need to define NATURE for you. It is basically the great outdoors. So get out there!

As always, I look forward to seeing all the interpretations!

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.

That is it, them’s the rules.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION

Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.

Want your own Photography 139 email subscription? Call, email, or text me and I’ll get you the hook up.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION

Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.

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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very natural Monday!