Category Archives: Friends

Personal Photo Project of the Week #70

Last week I removed and disassembled the Friend Wall. It is no longer in existence. No longer do I have friends on my wall.

I replaced the Friend Wall with the 9 Emotions Project Wall. The centerpiece of this new “exhibit” is a 24×36 print of the picture below. A picture that was the ultimate goal of the whole 9 Emotions Project.


I picked 1 person for each emotion. I like to think that there are reasons why each person was able to best represent each emotion.

Joy and Cousin Amy

Cousin Amy lives the joy of a life where she was told a diagnosis of her child by their doctor and told the doctor, “I don’t think so.” Then she went out and proved the doctor wrong.

Sadness and Willy

After the events of the last couple weeks, there isn’t a reason to cover this one.

Anger and Derrick

As hard as it is to believe, Derrick was the single angriest man I ever worked with when we were employed at the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire. I have numerous stories of him in my mind throwing searing tools across the room and punching things and telling the Store Manager to do unbecoming things to his anatomy that most people simply wouldn’t believe happened. Although once he was off the clock, he was the Derrick that everybody else knows.

Amusement and Shannon

When I think of Shannon I think of somebody that is amused by the simple things in life. Of course, that is the best way to be.

Fear and Jesse

Back in the days of Saturday morning basketball, I saw this look on Jesse’s face quite frequently. Pretty much any time he stood between me and the basket this look crept upon his face as he knew he was about to get embarrassed.

Jealousy and Jen

This one doesn’t really fit. Jen isn’t a jealous person and has very little to be jealous about. She has a great husband, a great kid, a great family and great friends. Basically she has all the right ingredients for the recipe to a happy life. I’m guessing that perhaps this is Jen showing off some long dormant acting skills. Perhaps she should pursue a role in one of the area community theaters. I know Jen LOVES community theater.

Surprise and Sara

While Sara is one of the most intelligent and best educated people I know, she lives life in a manner where whatever comes down the chute next is a gift and she seems genuinely surprised by it. While that might now seem like it is a compliment, I think that this is one of the best compliments I’ve ever given anybody. To live life with such unabandoned joy is a great life.

Sympathy and Jill

Jill fits sympathy so well as she has one of the best hearts of anybody I’ve ever known. She would tell you (yes we’ve had this conversation) that it isn’t that her heart is better than most people, but it is the fact that artists (Jill is an amazing flutist) are lead through life with their heart. While this is true, it doesn’t alter the fact that the first thing you notice about Jill when you meet her is her heart.

Boredom and Jay

I’ve always felt that people that are “bored” are boring people. Jay is a lot of things, but he is not a boring person. However, that doesn’t mean that I’ve never seen Jay bored. Being the closest of friends with Jesse, Willy, and I he has been subjected to more sporting events than many wives and girlfriends. Usually this is the look that glosses over his face right before he taps out and goes home to do things that interest Jay.

I also asked all of my models to pick out who they thought did the best job with each of the emotions. I gave extra credit to the people who were able to pick 9 different people for the 9 different emotions.

Here is the feedback I got fed back. In the order it came back to me.


The 9 Emotions Project -Shannon
Shannon’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Jill
Jill’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Sara
Sara’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Jen
Jen’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Jay
Jay’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Willy
Willy’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project -
Jesse’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Derrick
Derrick’s Pick

The 9 Emotions Project - Cousin Amy's Picks
Amy’s Picks

Next week’s Personal Photo Project with involve that most magnificent of creatures… the turkey.

Alice – 9 Months

Although I’m sure most people have seen these pictures by now, I have yet to post them here. What was tragically not captured digitally was Jon (who did an awesome job as a photo assistant) turning into a ghost at one point to act as a background. It will definitely be a lasting memory for me.


Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

Alice DeWaard - 9 Months

There are more pictures in the Alice – 9 Months Album in the store:

Alice – 9 Months

Next Wednesday will feature pictures of Logan running track.

The Archives: Edition Eighteen

These pictures are from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Insects


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Caterpillar

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Grasshopper

I believe both of these pictures were taken at Ledges when we were photographing Willy’s part of The Beaver Machete Massacre Project. For some reason that makes me nostalgic for having a day off in the middle of the week. That must mean I’m in desperate need of a vacation.

Next week’s folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/JC Janson

RWPE Y2 #20 – PAINTING WITH LIGHT

I’m guessing the technical demands of PAINTING WITH LIGHT scared off many contributors this week. Or it might have been all of the graduations going down this week. I anticipate with the coming Memorial Day weekend that there won’t be many submissions for next Monday either.


WEEK 20 - PAINTING WITH LIGHT - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
Christopher D. Bennett

WEEK 20 - PAINTING WITH LIGHT - MIKE VEST
Mike Vest

Next week’s theme:

ODD CAMERA ANGLE

A look back at ODD CAMERA ANGLE from last year:

ODD CAMERA ANGLE – 2010

I don’t know necessarily what my Memorial Day is going to entail, but at the very least, the theme for the following week will be posted at noon next Monday. I would advise you to have your picture in early.

Personal Photo Project of the Week #68

A brief word to explain these pictures. These are pictures taken with a pinhole camera with a trio of different filters. Although most of my photography is somewhat experimental, these are extremely experimental.

Often times I look at a picture and think, well that didn’t work. There are other times, I look at the picture and I think that didn’t work like it was supposed to, but it somehow works in a different way. These pictures I think work in a different way.


The Better
The Better

I’m not really sure where the ripple effect came from in these pictures. I think it was somewhere in the development process, unless I bent the film while winding it.

Here are a few more pictures from the The Better Series.


The Better

The Better

The Better

The Better

I don’t usually reveal where my picture titles come from, but I think everybody knows that they come from quotes that I like. I’m going to break with tradition slightly and reveal that this title comes from the following Ralph Waldo Emerson quote:

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve tulips.

Turkey Hunt

I’m known as the tree-hugging environmental whacko in my department of the Computer Mine. I have this title because I don’t hunt, voted for Obama, and want guns to be regulated. Also, I don’t actively hate our environment. I don’t pay much attention to the derision that comes my way on that front because one of my cognitive shortcuts is that when people use words like treehugger or Obamacare, I instantly assume they aren’t particularly well informed and I needn’t pay attention to what comes out of their mouth. After all, anybody can regurgitate talk radio taking points and catch phrases. It doesn’t mean that they have actually thought about an issue. I still let them speak, but I’m thinking about mayonnaise cake or something like that.

However, on the last day of April I pulled myself out of my very comfortable bed at 4 in the morning and drove to the Computer Mine parking lot to meet Micky to go turkey hunting.

Don’t be concerned. I haven’t had a radical change. I went carrying a camera and a tripod.

Here are some pictures from Micky and I’s early morning excursion.

I apologize for the last picture, but it had to be taken.



Micky


The view from the blind.


More Micky


The Decoys


This is as close as a turkey came to us. 75 yards. Too far to shoot at even if it was a “bearded turkey”, which it is not.


The Blind


The Decoys


What a turkey might have seen if it would have come anywhere near us.


Micky and I in the middle of the field after our failed hunt.


Micky carrying the blind out. I carried the decoys in and out.


If you look closely, you can see a deer. This is about as close as we came to any wildlife besides a squirrel.


An old abandoned slide.


Micky on the way out.


The ladder we used to cross the fence to get into the field to hunt turkeys.


The road we drove down to get to the ladder.


At Micky’s parents’ home we saw this goose nesting on top of a muskrat hut. The next day the eggs hatched and the family was gone.


A bullfrog in Lake Augustin.


As we were leaving beautiful Lake Augustin, we came across a tract of land that I can only describe as Deer Auschwitz. I made Micky stop the truck and I took this picture of the inside of a deer’s ribcage because… it was there.

Next Wednesday will be 9 Month Old Pictures of Alice.

The Archives: Edition Seventeen

These pictures are from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Godzilla



Jay carved this pumpkin.


I used to have lots of bad double exposure ideas… Still do actually.


A better look at Jay’s pumpkin carving prowess.


Olivia knitted this scarf for Godzilla. He wears it to this day.

Next week’s folder is: Backup/Old My Pictures/Insects/

RWPE Y2 #19 – COLORFUL

There were a few submissions for COLORFUL. Here they are:


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Sara Junck

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Julie Johnson

WEEK 19 - COLORFUL - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
Christopher D. Bennett

WEEK 19 - COLORFUL - MIKE VEST
Mike Vest

I’ve been down to the Random Theme Generator and it gave me the following theme:

PAINTING WITH LIGHT

A look back at last year’s PAINTING WITH LIGHT submissions:

PAINTING WITH LIGHT – 2010

The best way to think of PAINTING WITH LIGHT is having an object in total darkness and then illuminating just that object. This is the most technically demanding theme of the year, so I hope there nearly as many submissions for this as there were last year.