Category Archives: Jesse

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse, Personal Photo Project

Personal Photo Project of the Week #61

April 1, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

Jesse – 9 Emotions

Jesse’s take on the 9 emotions. If you have forgotten, these are the 9 emotions. Left to right. Top to bottom.

1. Joy
2. Sadness
3. Anger
4. Amusement
5. Fear
6. Jealousy
7. Surprise
8. Sympathy
9. Boredom

A closer look at Jesse’s interpretation of these 9 emotions:

Joy

Sadness

Angry

Amusement

Fear

Jealousy

Surprise

Sympathy

Boredom

The next person to pose for the 9 Emotions Project was Jay.

Jay – 9 Emotions

A closer look at Jay’s characterizations of the 9 emotions.

Joy

Sadness

Anger

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Amusement

Fear

Jealousy

Surprise

Sympathy

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Boredom

Next week’s Personal Photo Project of the Week will involve the Statue of Liberty.

Black & White, Christianity, Jesse, Sarah Toot, Still Life, Street Photography, Travel

More Random New York City – Near Ground Zero

March 30, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

Here are some random New York City images from the Second Day of the trip. These were taken at and around Ground Zero and at St. Paul’s Chapel, which is across the street from Ground Zero.

Regrettably, some of these pictures were taken through a window, leading to a regrettable reflection.

More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday.

Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse, Jill, Personal Photo Project, Photoshop, Shannon

Personal Photo Project of the Week #60

March 25, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Think Negative

There were two points to this project. My first point was that I wanted to scan a negative. In this day and age, it is a borderline revolutionary act to use film. Unfortunately I have let too much time and space get between me and my film camera(s). This is an injustice that I hope to remedy this year.

My first point was to make sure the viewer knew that this picture was taken with film. However, initially I felt that just scanning a negative so you knew it was a negative wouldn’t be enough. This lead to my 2nd point.

I was going to hit these negatives with a hammer. This is somewhat loosely based on something I did a long time ago when I printed a picture and then crumpled it up and then rescanned the picture.

However, this photo project lead me down several different avenues and in the end hitting the negatives with a hammer didn’t really produce the result I was looking to produce.

Here are some of the other images and other avenues I ventured down.

I did point out to everybody that I photographed that I would be hitting their picture with a hammer and not to be offended by that fact. Amazingly none of them were.

Next week I’ll return to publishing pictures from the 9 Emotions Project. Jesse and Jay are next up in the hopper.

Animals, Jesse, Music, Sarah Toot, Steph, Street Photography, Travel

Random New York City Images

March 23, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

Even though I only recently started the tradition of posting movie reviews on Wednesdays, I’m already walking away from that tradition. I want to keep this website about photography as much as possible, so I’m going to start posting my movie reviews on my collective blog:

Robot Monster Bros.

If you were to follow that link, you would not find any movie reviews. You will find an explanation of why I do my movie reviews the way I do. You will also find a posting the 10 Things I Learned in NYC. In the near future, I should have a review of Cedar Rapids up.

Wednesdays now will be more of a random photography day. This way I get more photography on the photography website and more writing on the writing website.

Here are some random pictures from my trip to New York City:

The Carnegie Deli, our first stop after the hotel.

The Melo – That is what I am talking about!

Maybe the best cheesecake of my life.

Central Park

Central Park Horse

Manhattan Skyline from Central Park

Broadway

David Letterman does not amuse me, but this was still kind of cool.

“Don’t want to be an American Idiot. Don’t want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind (fudge) America….”

Want to know what 72 dollars worth of alcohol looks like in NYC? Sarah and Tim are showing it off.

Steph and I after American Idiot

Jesse and I after American Idiot

Amy’s Bread’s Red Velvet Cake. Tim said this would be the best red velvet cake of my life. Shhh…. My Mom’s is better!

Sarah and I outside of Amy’s Bread

More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday and don’t forget to check out the other website for my list of 10 things I learned in NYC.

Jesse, Kelly

The Archives: Edition Nine

March 22, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Cruise Vacation – 2004 – December/PICTURES

These pictures were mostly taken by Kelly on the Howard’s new digital camera, probably purchased on the Home Shopping Network.

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O’Hare

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Hot cup of tea always hits the spot on vacation.

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Much ado about nothing.

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Leaving Miami

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Miami

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Leaving Miami

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Titanic

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On the dance floor.

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Haiti

Next week’s folder will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Deg-Porter Wedding

History, Jesse, Kelly

The Archives: Edition Eight

March 15, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Cruise Vacation – 2004 – December

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I bought this hat in Haiti for 10 bucks. Originally the guy wanted 80.

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Jamaica if I remember correctly.

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I’ve always enjoyed black and white photography of rusty things.

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Off the coast of Tulum.

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Tulum

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Grand Cayman

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I wish we had iguanas roaming our yards like squirrels.

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In Tulum

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Grand Cayman

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Tulum

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Tulum

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Dragon’s Breath in Haiti

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Grand Cayman

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The Sea

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Haiti

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Bell tower in Haiti

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Bell tower

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In Tulum

Next week’s folder is: backup/Old My Pictures/Cruise Vacation – 2004 – December/Pictures

Anders, Bill, Formal Portrait, History, Jay, Jesse, Steph, Willy

The Archives: Edition Five

February 22, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures are from backup/Old My Pictures/Beaver Massacre

I’ve try to come up with a good reason for why these pictures exist, but I can’t really defend them.

I will just try to explain what the general idea was supposed to be. These were supposed to be “Production Stills” for a movie that didn’t exist, The Beaver Machete Massacre.

Why?

I don’t know. I think Beaver looks like the set of a horror movie and I owned a machete.

Here they are:

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I believe Jay was the first person to fall under my blade. Sometimes when two great artists get together a creative synergy occurs and amazing things are done. Sometimes they do garbage like this…

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Bill was next and by this time my maniacal hillbilly character had bought a new plaid shirt. I think it was quilted so he wouldn’t get cold during the long winter nights in the woods.

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By the time Willy had come around, I had lost the machete. But I had found an axe. Locally there was a clothing sale at Big Bear and the maniacal hillbilly had picked up yet another quilted flannel shirt.

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We drove all the way out to Ledges, we might as well take more than one shot.

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Poor Steph. Why did she ever agree to such a thing.

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Jesse was next. I think this was done on his lunch break. Apparently I had found a hammer by this point.

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I think we found that bottle littered on the ground at Wakefield Woods.

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Jesse used to have a similar look on his face when he saw that he was going to have to defend me on the basketball court.

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I’m pretty sure that Jay took these cinematic shots.

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Jesse must have really been into this little project.

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I must have found the machete again. The look on Andy’s face almost makes this old project worthwhile.

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Take that Old Navy!

Next week’s folder is backup/Old My Pictures/County Fair 2004

Anders, Animals, Bill, Faust, History, Jay, Jesse, Movies, Steph

The Archives: Edition Three

February 8, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/ Animals

In retrospect, I don’t know why I named this folder Animals. There aren’t that many animal pictures in it. I guess I must have considered it witty at the time.

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Kalona

For my 30th Birthday Party, I talked Andy and Jesse into dressing up like Sandmen from Logan’s Run and posing for pictures all over the awe-inspiring beauty of the Iowa State University campus. Jay was the photographer. I really need to watch Logan’s Run again sometime.

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The notorious Black Angel in Iowa City.

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Bill took this picture of Faust at our wedding.

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Tulum

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Kalona, in front of the now defunct Kalona Cupboard.

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The poster for Steph’s Senior Recital.

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Brandon as Henrik Ibsen.

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Lost Lake.

Next week’s look at the archives will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Backgrounds

Still another week before I have to come up with a good excuse for the Beaver Machete Massacre Project.

Dawn, Jesse, Jill, Julie, Vest, WPC - Submissions

RWPE Y2 #3: Panning Camera Blur

January 24, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

There was a decent response to what I consider to be the most technically demanding (with the possible exception of PAINTING WITH LIGHT) theme of the 52 different themes.

Here are the submissions for PANNING CAMERA BLUR:

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Julie Johnson

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Dawn Krause

Jesse Howard

Christopher D. Bennett

Mike Vest

After two weeks of fairly technical themes, I hoped that the the Random Theme Generator would give out a more interpretable theme and it did cooperate. Here is this week’s theme:

HARMONY

That is a theme that is fairly open to interpretation. Here is look back at last year’s HARMONY submissions:

HARMONY

Good luck with this theme. Hopefully it will inspire many people to contribute next Monday!

Jesse, Julie, Vest, WPC - Submissions

RWPE Y2 #2: Long Exposure

January 17, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

I think the technical aspects of this theme scared off some contributors this week. Although I am excited to have a submission from Jesse who was a founding member of RWPE who quickly dropped out.

I should point out that I had some hiccups with my email system this morning. It is remotely possible that there are more submissions waiting for me when I get home, so check back later tonight to see if there were more submissions. Also don’t panic if your submission isn’t up, it will be tonight.

Here are the submissions for LONG EXPOSURE:

Jesse Howard

Christopher D. Bennett

Mike Vest of Waxen Media

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Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey

I’ve been down to speak to the Random Theme Generator and I begged it for a less technical theme, but it just spit in my eye and then spit out the following:

PANNING CAMERA BLUR

The idea of this theme is to track a moving object with a short enough exposure so that the subject remains in focus (in the ballpark of focus), but with a long enough exposure that the background is blurred. It is a way of conveying motion in a still photograph.

A look back at last year’s PANNING CAMERA BLUR submisions:

PANNING CAMERA BLUR

Hopefully many people out there are inspired by this weeks theme. Hopefully next week I’m not in so much physical pain that I don’t screw up my email system on Monday morning.