I remember this beatdown Iowa State put on Iowa like it was yesterday:
There are a ton more pictures that I didn’t include in this post. If you are interested, you can check them out in the following gallery:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will include Thomas the Tank and a building that has recently fallen apart.
I’m going to do this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE losers a little bit differently. I actually went out 3 or 4 times to take NATURE photos. I’m going to break them down into those trips. These are the pictures from the first trip that didn’t have what it takes:
These pictures were taken at McFarland Park, north of Ames.
NATURE really sparked something in a lot of people. I think this is the largest group of submissions we’ve had in weeks! Brooke even rejoined us! Welcome back Brooke!
But you don’t want to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You want to see the submission for NATURE:
Christopher D. Bennett
Bill Wentworth
Mike Vest
Stephanie Kim
Angie DeWaard
Brooke Milligan 1
Brooke Milligan 2
Cathie Raley 1
Cathie Raley 2
Shannon Bardole
Carla Stensland 1
Carla Stensland 2
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Micky Augustin
What a great week of submission!
But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:
As it so happens, I’m actually short of TIME to write a description of TIME right now. So the short, short version is that the idea of TIME is to capture a moment or moments in TIME. This should be done with either an extremely short or a long exposure. However, there are obviously other ways to define TIME. Some people think that TIME doesn’t even exist. Feel free to use any definition of TIME that works for you.
Good luck and I can’t wait to see your interpretations of TIME!
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
1. The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.
That is it, them’s the rules.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION
Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 MISSION DIVISION
For those of you that are observant of my schedule, I will be in Saint Paul on a mission trip next Monday. That doesn’t change the schedule of events. The deadline for inclusion of your submission will still be 11 AM on Monday. At 12:01, next week’s theme will be revealed. I won’t have much access to my email until I return to the Cyclone State on Friday, therefore I won’t reveal the submission until I return or until I feel that I have adequately recovered physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very timely Monday or whenever I release the submissions!
A few Sundays back was the Methodist Men’s 4th Annual Pie Auction. All the money raised wen to support youth activities in the church. Teresa took the majority of these pictures as I was working the event:
The Pie Auction was a rousing success and a plethora of moola was raised! A good start on fundraising for next year’s mission trip or painting projects or whatever.
On Sunday, I redid Page 24 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. While I already did this page with Shannon, I decided to redo it because of the lighting conditions for that photo shoot weren’t ideal and it made those pictures very noisy.
This time I used Naima as the model and Jesse was a photo assistant.
Page 24 is “Throw something at your subject and capture their reaction with a fast shutter speed.”
That picture is the one that will go in the book, but I thought you might also enjoy some of the rejects:
I took some photos with Nader on Wednesday, but I haven’t quite decided on them yet.
Here are a few of my favorites from the ongoing Selfie Project from the month of May:
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 9
May 10
May 12
May 14
May 17
May 18
May 19
May 20
May 23
May 24
May 25
May 27
May 29
May 31
Hoping June is just as good as May was!
These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes to be be included in the PORTRAIT theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
If only these pictures believed in themselves, no telling what they could accomplish!
A good solid set of submissions for PORTRAIT as we head down the homestretch of this year’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about submission rates. You came here to see the submission for PORTRAIT:
BILL WENTWORTH 2
STEPHANIE KIM
KIM BARKER
CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
MICKY AUGUSTIN 1
MICKY AUGUSTIN 2
CARLA STENSLAND 1
CARLA STENSLAND 2
MICHELLE HAUPT
CATHIE RALEY
MIKE VEST 1
MIKE VEST 2
What a great week of submission!
But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:
NATURE! What a great theme! I know getting out in NATURE might be outside of the comfort zone of some people, but trust me. It isn’t scary out there. Unless you go out to your favorite State Park and it is lousy with a bunch of posers. Only showing up when the weather is nice. Taking up space and getting in the way. But I don’t talk from personal experience. Lousy stinking posers!
But I digress. There is NATURE everywhere. Even people living in cities, have access to NATURE. That being said, there is more than one definition of NATURE. I’d tell you another one, but I bet you own a dictionary. If you don’t, they sell them at book stores. Field trip!
Good luck! I can’t wait to see the NATURE interpretations.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
1. The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.
That is it, them’s the rules.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
Want your own Photography 139 email subscription? Call, email, or text me and I’ll get you the hook up.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION
Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.
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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very natural Monday!
Most of the pictures from the folder called 09-09-07 are from an Iowa State football game with UNI. The others are from Pufferbilly Days.
Next Saturday’s folder will have lots of yellow flowers!
My new Wednesday Photo Project is to work my way through the book “Use This If You Want to Take Great Photographs. A photo journal” by Henry Carroll. I’m not sure how much I’ll do on each night, but I made my first foray into the book with Shannon’s assistance last Wednesday.
The way the book works is that is mostly a collection of pages to paste pictures into with photo directives like:
Take an ugly picture of something beautiful.
Create drama around the edge of your frame.
Use aperture to capture melancholy.
Make light the subject of your photography.
And so on and so forth.
Here are four images I started with:
Show us that photography is a form of magic.
Photograph your earliest memory.
Throw something at your subject and capture their reaction with a fast shutter speed.
Since I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to attack this project, I might redo a couple of these photos because I think I’m going to add on a rule that nobody can be in more than one picture
