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Angie, Animals, Brooke, Carla, Cathie, Flowers, Kim, Linda, Micky, Nature, Shannon, Steph, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 92 – NATURE

June 19, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

NATURE really sparked something in a lot of people. I think this is the largest group of submissions we’ve had in weeks! Brooke even rejoined us! Welcome back Brooke!

But you don’t want to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You want to see the submission for NATURE:

Linda Bennett

Christopher D. Bennett

Bill Wentworth

Mike Vest

Stephanie Kim

Angie DeWaard

Brooke Milligan 1

Brooke Milligan 2

Cathie Raley 1

Cathie Raley 2

Shannon Bardole

Carla Stensland 1

Carla Stensland 2

Kim Barker 1

Kim Barker 2

Micky Augustin

What a great week of submission!

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:

TIME!

As it so happens, I’m actually short of TIME to write a description of TIME right now. So the short, short version is that the idea of TIME is to capture a moment or moments in TIME. This should be done with either an extremely short or a long exposure. However, there are obviously other ways to define TIME. Some people think that TIME doesn’t even exist. Feel free to use any definition of TIME that works for you.

Good luck and I can’t wait to see your interpretations of TIME!

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.

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.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 MISSION DIVISION

For those of you that are observant of my schedule, I will be in Saint Paul on a mission trip next Monday. That doesn’t change the schedule of events. The deadline for inclusion of your submission will still be 11 AM on Monday. At 12:01, next week’s theme will be revealed. I won’t have much access to my email until I return to the Cyclone State on Friday, therefore I won’t reveal the submission until I return or until I feel that I have adequately recovered physically, emotionally, and psychologically.

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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 timely Monday or whenever I release the submissions!

Boone FUMC, Jaxon, Teresa

4th Annual Pie Auction

June 16, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

A few Sundays back was the Methodist Men’s 4th Annual Pie Auction. All the money raised wen to support youth activities in the church. Teresa took the majority of these pictures as I was working the event:

The Pie Auction was a rousing success and a plethora of moola was raised! A good start on fundraising for next year’s mission trip or painting projects or whatever.

Animals, Jesse, Nader, Naima, Photo Journal

A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 24

June 15, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

On Sunday, I redid Page 24 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. While I already did this page with Shannon, I decided to redo it because of the lighting conditions for that photo shoot weren’t ideal and it made those pictures very noisy.

This time I used Naima as the model and Jesse was a photo assistant.

Page 24

Page 24 is “Throw something at your subject and capture their reaction with a fast shutter speed.”

That picture is the one that will go in the book, but I thought you might also enjoy some of the rejects:

I took some photos with Nader on Wednesday, but I haven’t quite decided on them yet.

Bethany, Dae Hee, Flat Earth Joe, Flowers, FNSC, Michelle, Mom, Naima, Nature, Nora, Religion, Road Trip, Sara, Self-Portrait Project, Shannon, Travel, Willy

Selfie Project – May

June 14, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Here are a few of my favorites from the ongoing Selfie Project from the month of May:

May 2

May 4

May 5

May 6

May 9

May 10

May 12

May 14

May 17

May 18

May 19

May 20

May 23

May 24

May 25

May 27

May 29

May 31

Hoping June is just as good as May was!

Animals, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Logan, Naima, Self-Portrait, Street Photography, WPC - Alternate

If She Keeps It Up I Just Might Tell Her So

June 13, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes to be be included in the PORTRAIT theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:

If only these pictures believed in themselves, no telling what they could accomplish!

Bill, Black & White, Carla, Cathie, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Johnathan, Kim, Michelle, Micky, Steph, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 91 – PORTRAIT

June 12, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

A good solid set of submissions for PORTRAIT as we head down the homestretch of this year’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about submission rates. You came here to see the submission for PORTRAIT:

BILL WENTWORTH 1

BILL WENTWORTH 2

STEPHANIE KIM

KIM BARKER

CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT

MICKY AUGUSTIN 1

MICKY AUGUSTIN 2

CARLA STENSLAND 1

CARLA STENSLAND 2

MICHELLE HAUPT

CATHIE RALEY

MIKE VEST 1

MIKE VEST 2

What a great week of submission!

NATURE!

NATURE! What a great theme! I know getting out in NATURE might be outside of the comfort zone of some people, but trust me. It isn’t scary out there. Unless you go out to your favorite State Park and it is lousy with a bunch of posers. Only showing up when the weather is nice. Taking up space and getting in the way. But I don’t talk from personal experience. Lousy stinking posers!

But I digress. There is NATURE everywhere. Even people living in cities, have access to NATURE. That being said, there is more than one definition of NATURE. I’d tell you another one, but I bet you own a dictionary. If you don’t, they sell them at book stores. Field trip!

Good luck! I can’t wait to see the NATURE interpretations.

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

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

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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!

Candid Portrait, Nora, Photoshop, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – PORTRAIT

June 9, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This is the your reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is PORTRAIT:

Happy photo harvesting!

Laura, Nate, Night, Road Trip, Travel

Manhattan Nights

June 7, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

Thought I’d share another one of my favorite photos from my trip to Manhattan to visit Nate and Laura.

This water tower is on top of Manhattan Hill. I think Manhattan Hill is one of my favorite places in Manhattan. Although on this recent trip I was introduced to Top of the World. I’ll definitely be checking that out during the day on my next trip to Wildcat Land.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2
ISO: 200
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 10 seconds
DATE: 05/27/2017 – 22:31
NO GPS DATA COLLECTED
PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Nate and Laura deserve credit for introducing me to this sweet spot.
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Speak Like a Child” by Herbie Hancock from KEN BURNS JAZZ
FAVORITE LYRIC: It is an instrumental silly!

Bethany, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Dae Hee, Holidays, Jim, Nora

Memorial Day – 2017

June 6, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

I spent most of my Memorial Day enjoying my day off. Watching old war movies and grilling with the family. But the highlight of my day was seeing Nora for the first time in WAY TOO LONG! Which is completely my fault, but an error in my judgment that I will fix in the future. Hopefully on a trip to Manhattan, Kansas in July!

Here are a few pictures from our trip to the Kiddy Corral.

Nora also brought Bethany, Dae Hee, and Jim with her. Very thoughtful of her!

Angie, Art, Carla, Cathie, Kim, Linda, Michelle, Shannon, Steph, Teresa, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 90 – PURPLE

June 5, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This week I had a technology snafu, so if you emailed in a picture before the 11 AM deadline and don’t see it posted, just email it to me again and I’ll get it up. Late, but I’ll get it up.

But you didn’t come here to talk all tommyrot about technology and snafus. You just want to see the submission for PURPLE:

Angie DeWaard 1

Angie DeWaard 2

Christopher D. Bennett

Cathie Raley 1

Cathie Raley 2

Carla Stensland

Kim Barker 1

Kim Barker 2

Kim Barker 3

Michelle Haupt

Shannon Bardole

Mike Vest 1

Mike Vest 2

Stephanie Kim

Linda Bennett 1

Linda Bennett 2

A solid week of submissions!

PORTRAIT!

PORTRAIT! What a great theme! I think everybody knows what a PORTRAIT is, but don’t think that you have to make this a formal portrait. A group of people awkwardly posed in front of some scene from nature. You CAN do that, but you don’t have to do that. Candids work great as well! Don’t think that a PORTRAIT has to be of a human subject. Animals make great portraits. So do inanimate objects. Don’t think that a PORTRAIT has to be of a face. Think creatively and feel free to define the theme any way you see fit!

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

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

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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 portraity Monday!