Here is another photo from the work afternoon I spent with a group of people turning the old grain elevator in west Ames into an “art place”.
This was painted onto a window on the third or fourth floor.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: Unrecorded
APERTURE: Unrecorded
EXPOSURE: 1/80
DATE: 04/13/2016 13:38
LATITUDE: 42.03700°
LONGITUDE: -93.68144
ASSISTANT: Micky Augustin
Another solid week of submissions. Here are the submissions for PORTRAIT:
Bill Wentworth 1
Bill Wentworth 2
Angie DeWaard 1
Angie DeWaard 2
Sarah Karber
Christopher D. Bennett
Mike Vest
Micky Augustin
Carla Stensland 1
Carla Stensland 2
Solid submissions across the board! But why live in the past. Let’s look to the future. After all, that is where we will live the balance of our lives.
This week’s theme…
Those of you with a little bit of elephant in you may be a little like: “Didn’t we just do GLASS?” However, those of you that are more learned will know that more than just windows are made of GLASS. Things like glasses are made of GLASS. The kind you drink out of and the kind you put on your face. (At least they used to be.) Bottles. Also made of glass. (At least they used to be.) Lenses. Made of glass. (At least they used to be.) Lots of wonderful art is made out of GLASS. So go out and explore the wonderful world of GLASS.
HOUSEKEEPING
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
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 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!
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.
Going to be a quick write up today, but excited that there were a plethora of submissions this week. Including a submission from first time submitter Jodie Bennett. Which is pretty sweet!
Here are the submissions for COUNTRY:
Bill Wentworth
Jodie Bennett
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Shannon Bardole
Christopher D. Bennett
Angie DeWaard 1
Angie DeWaard 2
Mike Vest
Micky Augustin
A fine selection of submissions!
But what is the theme for this week?
WINDOWS is not as easily accessible of a theme as COUNTRY, but everybody has access to WINDOWS. Of course there are many ways to interpret WINDOWS. Some would say that the eyes are the WINDOWS to the soul. If you are serious about running your business, WINDOWS is the OS for you. Of course, there are WINDOW(S) displays for WINDOW(S) shopping. Even cars have WINDOWS. Translate the theme however you see fit.
No HOUSEKEEPING today. I’ll try to do better next week.
So the walk down memory lane now concludes. With a look at the images that were in the calendar that early this morning will be taken down from kitchen walls (most common place I’ve seen the calendar hung up), office walls, cubicle walls, and placed gently in the trash with yesterday’s coffee grounds. 2015 Photography 139 Calendar I bid you a fond adieu.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
If you ever get bored and want to take this walk down memory lane again, you can visit the Calendar and Postcards Gallery in the PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY. Link below:
Since yesterday was the end of year and a holiday that many people celebrate (not me though, I don’t need the calendar gestapo telling me when to start a new year) I would like to take a quick moment to thank everybody that has continued to be an email subscriber to this here blog.
Off the top of my head and I apologize if I miss anybody:
These people are all original subscribers or at least haven’t changed their email since August 22, 2011. Which is how far back the records from off the top of my head go.
Jay Janson
Jason Baier
Shannon Bardole
Scott Degeneffe
Corey Faust
Susanna Funk
Jill Gorshe
Jesse Howard
Sara Lockner
Teresa Kahler
Nader Parsaei
Becky Perkovich
Bernice Verhoorn
Janice Peterson
Suzie Brannen – Since June 22, 2012
Eric Hiatt – Since August 20, 2012
Kim Barker – Since September 18, 2012
Amy Junck-Wallendal – December 18, 2012
Russell Kennerly – Since May 13, 2013
Tim Tucker (Not the one most of you are thinking about) – Since June 27, 2013
Michelle Haupt – Since July 12, 2013
Tim Tucker’s Woman (Sorry, never caught her name) – Since August 22, 2013
Geri Derner – Since September 30, 2013
Micky Augustin – Since October 10, 2013
Angie DeWaard – Since August 24, 2015
Mike Vest – Since September 9, 2015
Melissa Degeneffe – Since September 14, 2015
DaeHee Yoon – Since September 29, 2015
Monica Kewer – Since October 2, 2015 (Current email)
Carla Stensland – Since October 5, 2015
Joe Lynch – Since October 9, 2015
Jorge Rios – Since October 9, 2015
Anders Runestad – Since October 11, 2015
Elizabeth Nordeen – Since November 2, 2015
Laura Miller – Since November 9, 2015
Michael Houlihan – Since November 16, 2015
Dawn Krause – Since December 21, 2015
Joe Duff – Since December 21, 2015
Thanks for all the support and for making 2015 a successful year, by some sense of the word. I hope our little family here continues to grow. I’ll try and do better in 2016!
I don’t think that it is a secret to anybody that knows me at all that black and white photography is my true photographic love. And we all know that true love is the greatest thing in the world – except for a nice MLT – mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe.
But I digress.
The point is I’ve been looking forward to this week for 13 weeks now! Let’s see the submissions.
Angie DeWaard
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Deb Kibby
Micky Augustin 1
Micky Augustin 2
Christopher D. Bennett
Mike Vest
If it was up to me, I would’ve thrown in BLACK AND WHITE as a category 4 or 5 times. Unfortunately, it just dawned on me that it is up to me. Maybe next year.
But why dwell on the past, when we have the future to look forward to? Let us look at this week’s theme…
This category doesn’t necessarily mean an object inside of a literal frame. Think of this as an object that your view is framed by other objects. Or think of this any way that you like.
MESSAGE FROM PHOTOGRAPHY 139’S SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION.
Big time welcomes are due to not ONE, but TWO new email subscribers. So give BIG welcomes to new Photography 139 email subscribers Dawn Krause AND Joe Duff. I believe Joe to be our first subscriber from Texas! Going global… soon!
I would normally tell you that if you see them on the streets to give them a knowing glance AND don’t be shy about showing them the secret Photography 139 handshake. However, the Secret Handshake Division has yet to finalize the handshake. So at this time the knowing glance will have to suffice.
Welcome aboard Joe and Dawn. I know you shall fare well!
A pretty fair amount of submissions this week. I hope the momentum continues next week with a subject matter many people are less familiar with than FOOD. There is also, not one, but TWO first time contributors in this week’s submissions! Hopefully they feel inspired to keep submitting, even though this week’s theme will be harder. Hooray!
This week’s submissions:
Laura Miller
Micky Augustin
Michelle Haupt
Angie DeWaard One
Angie DeWaard Two
Christopher D. Bennett
Monica Kewer
Mike Vest
Shannon Bardole
Kim Barker
Becky Perkovich
Teresa Kahler
Time to reveal next week’s theme. My clue earlier was that it was something that many people aren’t as familiar with as they are food. Of course, that doesn’t include anybody with in the sound of these words.
Next week’s theme!
WORK – /werk/ noun – Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.
Hopefully the enthusiasm for this project carries over!
Time for a quick housekeeping note from Photography 139’s Shameless Self-Promotion Division. We are pleased to announce that a new email subscriber has been added: Laura Miller of Manhattan, Kansas. I believe her to be the third person that resides in Kansas to subscribe to this here blog. If you see her out and about, give her the knowing glance AND feel free to teacher her the super-secret Photography 139 handshake. Welcome aboard Laura!
I was a bit worried about this week. Early this morning there were zero submissions. I thought that this week might be strike 1 against the Weekly Photo Challenge, but slowly a few submission came in.
Here are those submissions:
Michelle Haupt
Mike Vest
Christopher D. Bennett
Becky Perkovich One
Becky Perkovich Two
Monica Kewer One
Monica Kewer Two
Carla Stensland One
Carla Stensland Two
This brings us to the time where we unveil this week’s theme. It is an easy one!
There should be a ton of submissions for this theme! Almost everybody I know eats! And the majority of those people eat food!
food – noun – Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth.
It is also time for a quick housekeeping note from Photography 139’s Shameless Self-Promotion Division:
We are pleased to announce the addition of a new member of the email subscription family… Elizabeth Nordeen. Therefore, if you see Elizabeth Nordeen out and about (when she goes out and about) give her a knowing look and feel free to teach her the super-secret Photography 139 handshake.
Welcome aboard Elizabeth! We know you won’t openly regret it!
Admittedly, at this time of year, this is a hard theme to tackle. However, a fair amount of people were able to find a WILD ANIMAL. The challenge gets harder and harder as the weather gets colder and colder.
This week’s submissions:
Michelle Haupt
Mike Vest
Christopher D. Bennett
Angie DeWaard
Time to reveal this week’s theme:
I don’t know that I need to define this one, I think everybody knows the definition of portrait. I think everybody knows what a face looks like. So this is a portrait that doesn’t include a face.
No other real news to share. No new subscribers this week. The website is undergoing a metamorphosis, if you haven’t noticed. It isn’t there yet, but it almost is, so feel free to check the website’s new look out. Including new headers! New logo! My Snapcode! Same great content!
As always, good luck this week to you and your faceless victims… um… subjects!
This was an awesome week of participation! Hopefully this continues.
A quick note because I forgot to mention this last week. The photo needs to be taken the week of the challenge. This isn’t a I have this photo I took 3 years ago that fits the category challenge. This isn’t a curate challenge. This is a get out and photograph challenge.
This week’s submissions:
Becky Perkovich
Micky Augustin
Angie DeWaard
Michelle Haupt
Christopher Bennett
Dawn Krause
Mike Vest
Now is the moment where I reveal this week’s challenge!
Sign
noun
plural noun: signs
1. an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probably presence or occurrence of something else.
2. a gesture or action used to convey information or instructions
verb
3rd person present: signs
1. write on’es name on (a letter, card, or similar itemt) to identify oneself as the writer or sender.
2. use gestures to convey information or instructions
Remember to get you submission to me by noon next Monday, however, the earlier the better!. Email me at bennett@photography139.com.
I can’t wait to see next week’s submissions!
