The 2nd 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge:
Day 9 – 8 o’clock
Day 10 – Fruit
Day 11 – Faceless Portrait
Day 12 – Ring
Day 13 – Purple
Day 14 – Spoon
A special thanks to Willy for the assist on the ring picture. Also a special thanks to Jen and Derrick for loaning me the ring, 5 or 6 months ago.
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 15 – Simple
Day 16 – Arrow
Day 17 – Crossed
Day 18 – Food
Day 19 – Faces
Day 20 – Shopping
Day 21 – Hole
The 1st 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge went fairly smoothly:
Day 2: A Silly Face
Day 3: Behind Glass
Day 4: One
Day 5: Flash
Day 6: Sunflower
Day 7: Logo
These are the themes for the next 7 days:
Day 8: Writing
Day 9: 8 o’clock
Day 10: Fruit
Day 11: Faceless Portrait
Day 12: Ring
Day 13: Purple
Day 14: Spoon
These pictures come from the following folder:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Friends/Campusites
What I see in these pictures was a call for help. Somebody needed to come over and uninstall my copy of Photoshop. It would have been for the betterment of mankind.
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Friends/Hiatts
Once again, none of these were “faked”. Nudge-nudge. Wink-wink.
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Hoping for more interesting venues this week!
It is the time of year that is filled with sadness. Another college basketball season has come to an end. But despite the gloom that will set upon the land for many more months, it is a time of joy as well. We get to crown a new King of the Roundball Oracles. A new name goes on the plaque of immortals with these past champions:
Roundball Oracles Past Champions.
2011 – Carrie Baier
2010 – Mark Wolfram
2009 – Mark Wolfram
2008 – Mark Wolfram
2007 – Tim Peterson
2006 – William McAlpine
2005 – William McAlpine
The latest immortal is…
In the closes Roundball Oracle competition ever, Lowell beat Corey Faust on the tiebreaker.
I will be ordering Lowell’s trophy soon and will be presenting it to him in the very near future. I’m sure there will be photographic evidence to back this up presented in this forum in due time.
Another reason why it was a good year for the Roundball Oracles is that we set a new record with 29 combatants. Shattering the previous participation mark by several people.
Without further adieu, here are the final standings of the 8th Roundball Oracles Challenge:
Rank/Name/Points/National Title Choice/Last Year’s Finish
1. Lowell Davis – 275 – Kentucky – 13th
2. Corey Faust – 275 – Kentucky – 6th
3. Jason Baier – 265 – Kentucky – 5th
4. Angie DeWaard – 255 – Kentucky – DNP
5. Robert Henning – 245 – Kentucky – 8th
6. William McAlpine – 236 – Kentucky – DNP
7. Mark Wolfram – 235 – Ohio State – 15th
8. Jason Stensland – 229 – Ohio State – DNP
9. Dawn Krause – 228 – Kentucky – 4th
10. Jesse Howard – 225 – Kentucky – 2nd
11. Jon DeWaard – 222 – Kentucky – DNP
12. Derrick Gorshe – 220 – Kentucky – DNP
13. Nader Parsaei – 216 – Connecticut – 14th
14. Jackson Faust – 214 – Michigan State – DNP
15. Bill Wentworth – 211 – North Carolina – DNP
16. Tim Peterson – 209 – Kansas – 11th
17. Mike Donner – 206 – Michigan State – DNP
18. Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 199 – North Carolina – DNP
19. Michael Augustin – 196 – North Carolina – DNP
20. Carrie Baier – 194 – Michigan State – 1st
21. Shawn Lockner – 189 – Baylor – DNP
22. Russell Kennerly – 176 – North Carolina – 9th
23. Shaun Kirsch – 175 – Iowa State – 16th
24. Teresa Kahler – 173 – Iowa State – DNP
25. Yours Truly – 164 – North Carolina – 7th
26. Toby Sebring – 157 – North Carolina – DNP
27. Brandon Kahler – 142 – Kansas State – DNP
28. Jordan Toot – 119 – North Carolina – DNP
29. Becky Perkovich – 0 – Undecided – DNP
Some people might think that I need to explain why somebody with my nearly infinite basketball knowledge could have fared so poorly, but I will not defend my lowly ranking. Truth is that my goal is just to beat Russell and the fact that I didn’t this year means that I will have to try harder next year. I cannot let RMK get the best of me two years in a row!
Even though the dust has barely settled on this year’s NCAA tournament, I am already very excited for next year’s season. I think that the Cyclones will be even better next season and I can’t wait to see them prove me right. I guess until the season begins anew, I will look forward to the Spring Football Game that is only days away!
It is the time of the year known as March Madness. That, of course means it is also time for me to run my annual NCAA Tournament Pool.
It is open to all interested parties (I’ll take a few uninterested parties as well) regardless of their basketball knowledge. After all, this pool was won by a woman last year* and the 3 years before that is was won by a dude living in Taiwan. You couple that with the fact that somebody with my immense knowledge of the greatest sport ever invented has yet to bring the title home to Union Street means that there is a certain degree of luck involved, so you shouldn’t be too intimidated by my intimate knowledge of the pick and roll.
As always there is no entrance fee. The winner does get a trophy. The only thing one has to risk is pride.
Pride, it would be pointed out by C.S. Lewis is the greatest sin, so you are out of excuses for not getting in to the fray with the combatants from last year.
2011 Final Standings
1. Carrie Baier
2. Jesse Howard
3. Linda Toot
4. Dawn Krause
5. Jason Baier
6. Corey Faust
7. Your Humble Narrator
8. Robert Henning
9. Russell Kennerly
10. Andree Jauhari
11. Nate Buckingham
11. Tim Peterson
13. Lowell Davis
14. Nader Parsaei
15. Mark Wolfram
16. Shaun Kirsch
17. Frank Meiners
The pool of entrants atrophied last year slightly, so I hope to garner more participants this year so all you have to do to get in is email me at:
And I’ll email you instructions and in no time you’ll be on the road to having your name on the Plaque of Immortals:
Previous Champions
2011 – Carrie Baier
2010 – Mark Wolfram
2009 – Mark Wolfram
2008 – Mark Wolfram
2007 – Tim Peterson
2006 – William McAlpine
2005 – William McAlpine
*I hope that sounded at least half as sexist as I hoped it would, but already two members of the fairer sex have thrown their hat into the arena.
The images below come from the following folder:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Display Pictures
These pictures were mostly old IM profile pictures or pictures from our pregnancy blog.
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts
This project was just to capture some pictures of storied Goeppinger Field with the fisheye lens. Hope you are enjoying the fisheye lens 1/20th of as much as I am enjoying it, because it isn’t going away. I expect you’ll see more sporting events captured with it in the future. I’m really excited to take it to The Jack this Fall.
The rest of the Go for the Great Series.
Of course thanks to Logan for running track. Otherwise I wouldn’t have even been at this event and taken these pictures.
I only had time last year to make a handful of calendars. If you didn’t get a calendar this year, I am sorry. I only had one left and I gave it to Nader because he actually called and asked for one. If somebody begged I suppose I could print another one off, but who would want a calendar that is almost 25% useless?
Here are the images from this years Photography 139 Calendar:
January
February
March
April
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
As usual, Mike Vest helped finish up the calendars with his hole punching and binding skills. Thanks Mike!
There were a couple of submissions for ADVENTURE. Here they are:
Mike Vest of Waxen Media
Christopher D. Bennett
I’ve visited the Random Theme Generator is pursuit of a theme for this week. This is what it spit out:
As it is warming up, this seems like just the right time for this theme.
Here is a look back at last year’s COLORFUL submissions:
Good luck everybody!
