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!
Mother’s Day – 2017
Category Archives: Family
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – FLOWERS
ANNOUNCEMENT: I WILL BE A PALL BEARER AT A FUNERAL AT THE TIME THAT THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE PICTURES ARE NORMALLY PUBLISHED AND THE THEME FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEK IS REVEALED. DON’T PANIC ON MONDAY WHEN THE NEW THEME ISN’T REVEALED AT 12:01 PM. IT WILL BE REVEALED AT SOME POINT ON MONDAY. DON’T WORRY. I WILL FEED YOU BABY BIRDS!
A reminder that this week’s theme is FLOWERS:
FLOWERS!
I could come up with some kind of fancy pants elitist definition for what would constitute a FLOWERS picture, but instead, I’ll just show you a few examples:
Carla Stensland
Kim Barker
Stephanie Kim
Mike Vest
Angie DeWaard
That should get your photography blood pumping.
Happy photo harvesting!
Manger Things
I don’t usually explain the titles of the entries in The Artist’s Notebook, but I’m going to explain this one.
Last night as I was restlessly watching a DVRed copy of THE HUNT FOR THE ZODIAC KILLER and thinking about general events of the day, I played a snap from Alisa from her church’s youth group. The theme from their current sermon series is “Manger Things”.
A reference to the Netflix hit (and second best show on television) STRANGER THINGS.
I thought that was a clever idea and I’m curious how it is. Often times when Christians try to appropriate pop culture it comes off like this:
I’m hoping it is actually pretty cool, but I guess I’ll just never know.
On Sunday, following the soup supper my church (Boone First United Methodist Church represent!) did its own version of MANGER THINGS. Here are a few images:
Solid work from everybody involved! I think it was one of my favorite Christmas plays we’ve done to date!
#Methodists2Houston
I wanted to start today’s entry into An Artist’s Notebook by thanking Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile to the Senate.
Thank you Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile to the Senate.
Thank you Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile that thinks that homosexuality should be a crime and compared it to bestiality to the Senate.
Thank you Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile that thinks that homosexuality should be a crime and compared it to bestiality and thinks that we should get rid of the amendments that freed the slaves, gave African-Americans the right to vote, gave women the right to vote, and outlaws voter suppression via taxes.
Thank you Alabama!
Now to the meat of this entry. On Sunday night we had our annual Christmas Play at the church. Before the play the youth group hosted a soup supper as a fundraiser for the mission trip to Houston. Here are a few photos from that event:
Thank you to everybody that came out and supported the youth group mission trip and donated the fat stacks of cash!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – WATER
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER theme is WATER:
WATER
WATER! What a great theme! But rather than defining a WATER image, thought I’d just show you a few examples:
Carla Stensland
Monica Henning
Michelle Haupt
Micky Augustin
Happy photo harvesting!
Strap a Grenade to my Head, Pull Out the Pin, My Photography is Mind Blowing, Ain’t Nobody Do It Like I Do It
The world wasn’t ready for these PORTRAIT images on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer:
Most of these PORTRAITs were taken around the computer mine. Some were taken during communion at my church. Others were taken in my back yard.
You’re welcome world!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 116 – PORTRAIT
The theme PORTRAIT was the least popular theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in years. A bit surprising because usually I get quite a selection of pictures of children and grandchildren. A little disturbing to me that children have fallen so out of favor with this group of people. But I get it. Children. They are here to replace us. You have to watch them all the time!
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk tommyrot about participation rates. You came for the submissions:
Angie DeWaard
Becky Parmelee
Cathie Raley
Michelle Haupt
Christopher D. Bennett
Tamara Peterson
A solid week of submissions!
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:
WATER!
WATER! What a great theme! I don’t think I need to define WATER for you. It is literally everywhere. Granted most of it is polluted because one of the ingredients in the recipe to make humans is something like 30% stupidity. Higher in certain parts of the South and Nebraska. However, it is still there. For now!
As always, I look forward to 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. 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.
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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 watery Monday!
Selfie Project – November
I don’t know that I did much that was particularly interesting in November, but I do feel like I did get some interesting photos, even though it doesn’t feel like I did that much in November.
Here are my favorites from THE SELFIE PROJECT from the month of November:
November 3
November 4
November 5
November 6
November 7
November 9
November 10
November 11
November 12
November 13
November 15
November 16
November 19
November 20
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 25
November 26
November 28
November 30
There is 1 month and one day left in THE SELFIE PROJECT. I’m sure that my Instagram followers look forward to its conclusion. I don’t know if I will substitute with a different daily project or if I will just take some time to sit under my own vine and fig tree.
If you do want to keep up with THE SELFIE PROJECT on a daily basis and see what other things I Insta, you can follow me under the following handle
@christopherdbennett
You can also see all of THE SELFIE PROJECT images by clicking on the link below:
SELFIE PROJECT – 2017
I’ll try to finish up the last 30 or so THE SELFIE PROJECT images strong! But we’ll see.
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – PORTRAIT
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is PORTRAIT:
PORTRAIT
Here is a good definition of PORTRAIT provide by the good folks at Wikipedia:
Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study.
Seems simple enough! Here are a few examples:
Micky Augustin
Angie DeWaard
Carla Stensland
Mike Vest
Kim Barker
That collection ought to get your creative juices flowing!
Happy photo harvesting!
Dog Face
I have a considerable backlog of images that I need to edit. Part of the problem is that I edit photos in 2 separate distinct locations and it is often difficult for me to figure out what I have edited in one location, but not the other. I have begun the process of mirroring these images in both locations so that I can actually make real head way on my back log. Plus, it should free up some valuable hard drive real estate in both locations.
Not to bore you with too many details, but the first step in this process involves tons or robocopy scripts AND an external hard drive.
And with that, here are some backlog images of Naima from February.
In addition to trying to get a better organizational grasp on my images that are physically in my possession, I’m also trying to get a better organization to my images that are in the SmugMug Gallery.
While it doesn’t help that effort, it is part of a slight re-design of the website. If you’ve been on the website lately you may have noticed some slight changes.
*The base color remains purple. It will always be purple. However, I got rid of some gold and green accent colors and replaced those with a silver and a light blue.
*I completely replaced the old headers with new headers.
*On the homepage, gone is the slide show of recent pictures added to the SmugMug Gallery. It has been replaced with a slide show of images submitted for The Weekly Photo Challenge.
There are some more changes coming, eventually. I’m looking to re-design every page from the About page to the Products page. I might even add a services page where I quote my prices. Like $75,000 to do a wedding on a Saturday that is an Iowa State home game. I hope you don’t think that prices me out of the market.
Here are a look at the current rotating headers on the website:
In the end, I hope to add about 15 more rotating headers to the slight website redesign.