If you have always wanted to own your very own copy of Hearts Beat High with Joy, here is your chance!
I have donated an 11×14 copy of this picture to the Sacred Heart School Carnival. This picture is matted and framed.
You can purchase it by winning its silent auction.
The Sacred Heart School Carnival is this Friday. From 6-8. It is at the Sacred Heart School in the Ryan Gym.
All the money goes to a good cause, so show up and bid, silently!
Apparently there aren’t a ton of HARMONY lovers out there. I’m kind of surprised by the lack of participation this week, but what can you do. You buckle down and you carry on.
Here are the few submissions for this week:
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Carla Stensland A
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Carla Stensland B
Mike Vest
I got up close and personal with the Random Theme Generator this week. It didn’t like it much, but it still spit out the following theme:
To quote Wikipedia:
“The classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” is close to the same size as the subject. On 35 mm film, the lens is typically optimized to focus sharply on a small area approaching the size of the film frame. Most 35mm format macro lenses achieve at least 1:2, that is to say, the image on the film is 1/2 the size of the object being photographed. Many 35mm macro lenses are 1:1, meaning the image of the film is the same size as the object being photographed.
In recent years, the term macro has been used in marketing material to mean being able to focus on a subject close enough so that when a regular 6×4 inch print is made, the image is life-size or larger. With 35mm film this requires a magnification ratio of approximately 1:4, which demands a lower lens quality than 1:1. With digital cameras the actual image size is rarely stated, so that the magnification ratio is largely irrelevant; cameras instead advertise their closest focusing distance.”
The best way to think of the technical way to look at this project is that macro photography is close up photography of something that is small.
Here are a couple of examples:
Follow this link to look back at last year’s MACRO submissions:
Good luck with this theme. Remember, most cameras have a MACRO setting. It is the little icon that looks like a flower.
These negatives are in pretty bad shape, so take this for what it is worth.
I don’t get all jazzed up by this type of thing, but I’m sure Jesse will. I’m sure if you look hard at these pictures you will probably find me. You will probably find Jesse. You will probably find some of my other friends. Don’t ask me where. I don’t really care all that much.
These negatives were in pretty rough shape, so take these for what they are.
It is hard to believe that this journal has reached entry 1,000.
Since I enjoy rather meaningless statistics, I’m going to go over a few right now.
According to how many times they have been viewed, these are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Artistic Gallery:
2. Outburst of the Soul
3. Jen Between UnHingd Sets
3. UnHingd Publicity Still
5. US30 East of Ogden
6. 1900
6. Abandoned Piano – McCallsburg
6. Becca Senior Picture
9. Grizzly McAlpine
10. Obama Political Rally
10. Campanile Self-Portrait
These are the 10 Most Popular Snapshots Gallery Pictures:
2. Jesse and I Backstage at the Surf Ballroom
3. Jesse Eating a Bob’s Dog
4. Shannon Reading a Map at Backbone State Park
5. Jesse and I at Eagle Point Park
5. Cousin Amy, Sara and Jen at Bonne Finken Concert
5. Jesse Kissing the Blarney Stone in Emmetsburg
8. Jesse Onstage at the Surf Ballroom
8. Jesse and I Resting at the Sargent Floyd Monument
10. Some Kind of Deal Going Down at a Bonne Finken Concert
10. Sara and Jen at Bonne Finken Concert
The Top Ten People I Write About, Photograph or Contribute in Some Way (Tagged in Journal Entries):
1. Jay (144)
2. Jesse (143)
3. Shannon (140)
4. Derrick (117)
5. Jen (101)
6. Teresa (96)
7. Willy (93)
8. Sara (88)
9. Baier (65)
10. Dawn (64)
Of course, we will revisit these numbers and pictures in about 100 or so journal entries. Of course, it will be interesting to see what has changed!
I’ve finally distributed almost every last 2011 Photography 139 Calendar. Allow me to explain what images were used and I will include the briefest of notes on the pictures.
This year, the calendar was a little bit more of an adventure than usual. The printer from the last two years baled on me. I couldn’t find the kind of paper that I have used the last couple of years. The paper I used was too thick to duplex. In the end though, it all came together and a perfectly acceptable calendar has been produced.
Here are the pictures:
This picture was taken at the Iowa State Fair. I like to photograph one of the flower gardens at the Iowa State Fair every year. I have to confess to being a little disappointed with the garden this year, but I have no doubt it will be back to its full glory in 2011.
This picture was taken in my backyard. It is actually connected to the August picture. I purchased a bouquet of flowers for the August photo. Then I waited for the flowers to die and photographed them for the January picture.
I found this frog in my favorite frog finding spot – Lost Lake in Ledges. He was surprisingly brave for coming from a race of creatures that are notorious cowards.
Sara was with me when I took this picture down in the Papajohn Sculpture Garden. This is the only picture in the calendar that was taken with the aid of a photo assistant.
This lonely farm scene can be found between Boone and Ames on US30. There is a secret to how this picture was produced, but Photoshop isn’t that secret.
Even though I drove to Pella in a rainstorm to photograph their tulips, I found my best tulip picture in my Grandma’s front yard.
On a road trip with Mom and Teresa to State Center, I must have taken at least 300 pictures of roses, but it was this picture of a rose leaf that stood out as the most memorable image of the day.
I visited a couple different wild daisy patches, but the daisy image that made the calendar was found in my Mom’s yard. It was my belief that after “The Solace of Ordinary Humanity”, I couldn’t possibly take a better daisy picture, but I took camera in hand to photograph daisies to figure out a birthday present for Jill.
This is the only image from the Random Weekly Photo Experiment to make the calendar. This picture was taken in the middle of the Winter with a daisy bouquet. This image is hanging in Kelly’s salon – Salon 908.
This picture is meant to be parody. Nobody else in the world will understand that, but believe me, it is meant to be parody. This is also the only picture in the calendar that is manipulated by Photoshop in a meaningful way. This hibiscus grows in my Mom’s yard.
In retrospect, I’m not sure this picture belongs in October, but it is too late now. This picture was taken near the sewage treatment center in Boone. I hope that doesn’t take some of the romance away from it.
I photographed this lily in my Grandma’s flower garden. She planted so many lilies that she wasn’t sure what colors were even going to come up.
This is a picture of my Grandma Bennett’s Bible.
I have only 1 stated goal for the 2012 calendar. There will be a picture of an iris in it. Jen’s favorite flower is the iris and it is the one flower that I can’t figure out how to photograph. I will meet my adversary head on this year and 1 of us will fall.
It is my habit to not comment on the pictures I post in this project, but I’m going to make a small exception here.
In the first couple of pictures, Carla is sitting on the old abandoned well in the basement of our old house on 415 Greene Street.
I was never allowed to even go near this well because my Mom feared that I would fall in it and be lost to the ages.
The fact that Carla was allowed to sit on this means 1 of 2 things to me:
1. She was the favorite child.
2. She was the expendable child.
I’m not sure what is the correct answer, but I’m fairly certain that my Mom never saw these pictures.
A couple of more observations.
Usually there is always a ton of Alexis in Carla’s childhood pictures, but I’m struck in these pictures how much Johnathan there is.
Don’t be surprised when I steal some of these mirror ideas in the future.
1 word or short phrase answers for the rest of the questions.
Your favorite virtue?
Humanitas
Your favorite qualities in a man?
Logic
Your favorite qualities in a woman
Empathy
What you appreciate the most in your friends?
Follow through
Your main fault?
Disinterest in money
Your favorite occupation?
Mixer
Your idea of misery?
Paperweight
If not yourself, who should you be?
My better self
Where would you like to live?
In the country.
Your favorite prose authors?
http://www.jennyblovesyou.com/
Your favorite poets?
http://impassionedversifier.blogspot.com/
Your favorite heroes in fiction?
Dexter
Your favorite heroines in fiction?
1 of my own creation.
Your favorite painters and composers?
Painter: Klemmer
Composer: http://www.guggenheimgrotto.com/
Your heroes in real life?
My friends
Your heroines in real life?
Mom
Your heroines in World history?
Any woman that lives under sharia law.
Your favorite food and drink?
Oklahoma Joe’s and Pepsi
Your favorite names?
Evie
What I hate the most?
Doubt
World history characters I hate the most?
Any tyrant
The reform I admire the most?
Health Care
The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with?
I’d be satisfied with being as good at basketball as I used to be.
How I wish to die?
Fearless
Your favorite motto?
Matthew 6:21
That concludes my look back at 2010. We may have to do this again next December.