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!
Mora
Category Archives: Family
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 33 – WINDOWS
A slight dip in submissions this week, but that was to be expected with a bit harder of a theme. It wasn’t too much of a challenger for first time contributor Geri Derner though! Here are the submissions for WINDOWS:
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Kim Barker 3
Kim Barker 4
Micky Augustin
Mike Vest
Carla Stensland
Christopher D. Bennett
Geri Derner.
What is this week’s theme? Keep scrolling!
PORTRAIT!
This is a nice and easy theme. The only person I would expect to struggle with this theme would be a true Lone Wolf. For the sake of this theme, a PORTRAIT would be considered a posed photo of somebody. That somebody could be a person, an animal, or a stuffed animal. Interpret away! As always, I can’t wait to see the submissions.
No HOUSEKEEPING today. I’ll try to do better next week.
Wagon Wheelin’
Another photo of the fallen Wagon Wheel Bridge:
Probably just a couple more of these up my sleeve.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO:125
FOCAL LENGTH: Unrecorded
APERTURE: Unrecorded
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 03/11/2016 – 14:22
LATITUDE: 42.06273°
LONGITUDE: -93.97021°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Carla Stensland
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!
Destructo
Time for another look at the fallen Wagon Wheel Bridge.
Probably have quite a few more of these sad images in the hopper.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 24mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 03/11/2016 – 14:07
LATITUDE: 42.06252
LONGITUDE: -93.96999
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Carla Stensland
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 30 – RUINS
I’ve been looking forward to this week’s theme since I wrote it on a green Post-It Note and dropped it in the hat. Jesse Howard, long time Photography 139 supporter and apparent beard lover, entered his first submission. Hopefully it is the beginning of many more.
Let’s look at the submissions for RUINS:
Carla Stensland 1
Carla Stensland 2
Carla Stensland 3
Bill Wentworth
Christopher D. Bennett
Jesse Howard
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Time to look to the future. This week’s theme is…
OLD!
Maybe it is unfortunate that these two themes got drawn back to back, but they are different ya know. While RUINS calls for you to photograph something that is deteriorating. This just calls for you to photograph something that is old. OLD can still be in very good shape. See William MacAlpine.
HOUSEKEEPING
No new email subscribers this week. Maybe next week.
As we are over halfway home, now is a good time to share the remainder of the themes. If this continues into another year, please put ideas for new THEMES in the COMMMENTS section of this here blog.
THE REMAINING THEMES
BLUE
HOMETOWN
PORTRAIT
MACRO
COUNTRY
FLOWER
PERSPECTIVE
ARCHITECTURE
LETTERS OR NUMBERS
GLASS
ART
SKY/CLOUDS
WINDOW
SMOKE
TRANSPORTATION
ROAD TRIP
SPORTS
REFLECTIONS
EMOTIONS
SUNSET/SUNRISE
WILD CARD
Analog Efex Pro
Recently my WB Joe stumbled across an article that Google had made their Nik Plugins free.
I rushed to the website and downloaded this collection of 7 plugins to play with immediately.
I thought I would give you a quick overview of some of the settings of these plugins, starting with the Analog Efex Pro plugin.
The description of this plugin from the website is as follows:
Get the photo you’re looking for, even if you don’t own the equipment. Let effects inspired by traditional cameras bring you back to the vintage age of photo development.
There are 9 default classic cameras you can start from and I’ll show you what those look like.
Let’s start with the original image from a gas station in tourist hot spot Cottonwood Falls, Kansas (photo assistant – Nate Miller).
Original Image
When I took this photo, this was my original vision.
Original Vision
Here is a look at the 9 default Classic Camera settings in the Plugin.
Classic Camera 1
Classic Camera 2
Classic Camera 3
Classic Camera 4
Classic Camera 5
Classic Camera 6
Classic Camera 7
Classic Camera 8
Classic Camera 9
But these Classic Cameras are just a jumping off point. Within this plugin you can play with roughly 50 different DIRT & SCRATCHES settings, 3 different LENS VIGNETTE settings, and roughly 50 different FILM TYPE settings.
I played with it a bit and came up with this image that feels like Cottonwood Falls, Kansas to me:
It is a cool FREE plugin to grab and add to your arsenal. Especially if you’re like me and love old and vintage photography.
Works with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements (more or less), and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
There are several more plugins in this collection. We’ll be taking a look at those as well.