Here are some pictures from a trip to Kansas to see Nate:
There is so, so, so, so much more in the backlog. But at least this was a start.
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Rust Bucket – Strong City Kansas
Another automobile I found fascinating in the car graveyard that is Strong City, Kansas.
I have maybe a couple more pictures left to share from beautiful (cough, cough) to me Strong City, Kansas.
Added a new category in PARTICULARS since I love minutia.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/6.3
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 04/03/2016 – 10:46
LATITUDE: 38.39543°
LONGITUDE: -96.53934°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nate Miller
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Straight, No Chaser” – Thelonious Monk from the album STRAIGHT, NO CHASER
THE CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT TRIVIA QUIZ
QUESTION 13
I was born with limited musical skills. What instrument did I play poorly in the Boone High School Band?
ANSWER: TROMBONE
BONUS
Who was my high school locker partner?
ANSWER: Lowell Davis
For Russell
I actually have been pretty lax about photographing flowers this year. That is partially because the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar will go in a new direction. Partially because I haven’t even planted flowers in my yard this year. Partially because my daffodils didn’t bloom this year. Partially because I missed my window of opportunity to go to Pella this year to photograph tulips. Regardless, my daisies were the first of my flowers to bloom this year.
So I dedicate the first flower picture of 2016 to Russell, because he hates my flower photography. He will be in mourning since flowers will start to become a bigger part of this here blog in the coming months. Probably. Sorry Russell, that is how the cookie crumbles.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 125
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/20
EXPOSURE: 1/100
DATE: 05/22/2016 – 13:18
LATITUDE: 42.05511°
LONGITUDE: -93.87082°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: None
THE CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT TRIVIA QUIZ ANSWER SHEET
QUESTION 5
When Olivia and I got married, who were my 5 groomsmen?
ANSWER: Jesse Howard, Anders Runestad, Jay Janson, William McAlpine, and Eric Hiatt
BONUS
I’ve been a groomsman or bridesman 7 times. Name the 7 grooms/brides I’ve served:
ANSWER: Jesse Howard, Jay Janson, Anders Runestad, Scott Degeneffe, Derrick Gorshe, Sara Lockner, and Nate Miller
Hey Baby…
“You look like you could be from Kansas.”
After seeing the remains of this truck and its license plate, I legitimately think that might be a legit pickup line.
Now that I’m through the party, I’ll try to get caught back up with my postings.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 30mm
APERTURE: f/9
EXPOSURE: 1/400
DATE: 04/03/2016 – 10:49
LATITUDE: 38.39563°
LONGITUDE: -96.53952°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nate Miller
Feeling Kansas
I might have processed this image to within an inch of its life. However, it turned out pretty much exactly as I wanted it so. Everybody wins!
It feels like I should show you what the original image looked like. But I’m not going to.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 22mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 04/03/2016 – 10:46
LATITUDE: 38.39540°
LONGITUDE: -96.53952°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nate Miller
Mora
A couple weekends back I went up to Minnesota with Nate and Laura to visit Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, and Colleen.
Here are a couple photos from that weekend.
I’m sure you’ll get exposed to many more Nora pictures. You lucky dogs!
Strong City Elevator
On Nate and I’s jaunt from Wichita back to Manhattan we made a stop in Strong City so I could photograph a surprisingly photogenic town.
Here is a photo of some rusty goodness:
You can take it to the bank, there is more Strong City coming your way!
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 35mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/125
DATE: 04/03/2016 – 10:39
LATITUDE: 36.9505°
LONGITUDE: -96.53696°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nate Miller
Paisley Park
This last weekend I made a trip up with Nate and Laura to visit Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, and Colleen. On Saturday night we made our way to Long Lake to eat at Primo. Dae Hee and I left early so we could swing by Paisley Park to see the Prince Memorial.
Below are some pictures.
So part of the reason I went to Paisley Park is because it was history. It was like going to Graceland after Elvis died. However, it wasn’t the majority of the reason that I went.
I don’t normally get too caught up in celebrity deaths. It is usually a time when people flock to social media to overstate their “relationship” with the deceased celebrity.
However Prince’s death to have an effect on me. I can’t claim to be a huge fan of Prince’s music, although I did enjoy it. I also admired his musicality and he was without a doubt one of the foremost musical geniuses of the last 50 years. He produced an album a year for over a decade. There are rumors that he has well over a thousand unreleased songs that he has recorded and not released. On some of his biggest hits he played every instrument on the recording. Often recording the song in one day. Often recording more than one song in a day in this manner.
One of my favorite Prince stories is when he played the Super Bowl halftime show in the pouring rain. The producers of the halftime show were worried that he would want to pull out. When they called him and asked him about the rain he gave a great response.
“Can you make it rain harder?”
The rain didn’t stop until he played his final song of the night, Purple Rain. Despite this fact, he gave what was easily the best Super Bowl Halftime show in history. A show that will stand the test of time for its pure virtuosity alone.
I’ll miss Prince because one of my fondest memories of my childhood was my eldest sister Teresa’s friends infatuation with Prince (even though I think Teresa was more into Phil Collins). One even dressed like Prince and his license plates matched Prince’s from PURPLE RAIN. It is up there with listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 on family road trips. Or Dad telling Teresa that if she wanted to go Hall some Oates, he could take her to a farm.
Prince dying is like a piece of my childhood dying.
I may have to become an adult yet.
Nora
Bethany and Dae Hee recently brought forth new life into this world. Nate, Laura, Jim and rolled up I-35 (or 35 Interstate in Kansan) and visited little Nora Olivia Yoon.
I don’t normally post pictures of people in the hospital, but I’ll make an exception, this one time.
Here is Nora:
Nate is unpictured because there was a limit of 3 people in the NICU at a time and I was never in there with him.
I should point out that to be allowed in the NICU with Nora, you had to have your flu shot. I was never so happy that my Mom’s incessant nagging to get my flu shot actually paid dividends. Nate, Laura, and Jim had to scramble the day before we went up to get theirs. Meanwhile, I was kicking back with Carla taking pictures of the remains of the Wagon Wheel Bridge.
Oh wait. I forgot I have some cruddy phone pictures to share as well. You can see Nate’s arm in one of those.
Dae Hee’s interpretation of child birth!
I’m going up to visit Nora again this weekend, so there might just be more Nora pictures in your future… you lucky dog!
Pre-Work
There is an old timey hamburger joint in Manhattan (Kansas) that I want to photograph at night at some point. On my recent trip to visit Nate, I was never in Manhattan at night. So it didn’t happen.
However, I did scout the area out and took a few test photos. Maybe a few months down the road I’ll post the photo that this scouting trip helped make possible.
Here are some scouting photos:
A Kansas State area restaurant that calls their desserts Cyclones? I get your subliminal message Vista Drive In. Loud and clear!