It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
Here are a few more of those BLACK & WHITE pictures:
My favorite theme was a very popular theme. BLACK & WHITE had a plethora of submissions from such exotic places as New York City to Indianola to Mount Pleasant to Roland to Woodward to near Adel. I was expecting a submission from Canada, but I’m guessing that that person just couldn’t get a signal up there in the rugged north.
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions!
Andy Sharp
Tamara Peterson
Jodie Cue
Christopher D. Bennett
Jodie Cue
Monica Henning
Jodie Cue
Monica Henning
Monica Henning
Monica Henning
Monica Henning
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Michelle Haupt
Stephanie Kim
Stephanie Kim
Tamara Peterson
Logan Kahler
Mike Vest
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Micky Augustin
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:
LETTERS OR NUMBERS! What a great theme! But what is a LETTERS OR NUMBERS photo. Simply enough, it is any picture that involves LETTERS OR NUMBERS. They don’t have to spell out a word or make up an equation. Random LETTERS OR NUMBERS work just fine.
I look forward to seeing your interpretations!
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
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.
Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.
OR
I now allow people to text me their submissions. In the past, I had made exceptions for a couple people that aren’t real computer savvy, even though it was an inconvenience for me and required at least 3 extra steps for me. I am now lifting that embargo because I have a streamline way of uploading photos. I’m not giving out my phone number, but if you have it, you can text me.
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
Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and do better next week.
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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 numbered Monday!
This is the final collection of photos of the Howards from 2017.
Of course, there are 2018 Howard photos out there, but those won’t be released for public consumption until after Christmas. Probably.
Another collection of photos from the Howards 2017. These are from a different camera than the previous collections. I don’t believe I’ve used that camera since this photo shoot. I probably should do something about that.
There is one last collection of 2017 Howard pictures in the hopper.
Time for another collection of pictures from the 2017 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
There are still more pictures of the 2017 Howards coming your way!
Time for another collection of pictures from the 2017 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
More Howard pictures are on their way soon. Like in 7 days!
About this time last year I headed to McHose Park and photographed the Howards for their annual family photo.
This Sunday, we will be heading to Cedar Falls for this year’s family photo.
But let us just enjoy last year’s for now:
Plenty more pictures of the Howards in the next week or so!
This post will wrap up the 3rd to last photo shoot from 2016 to have the 2016 backlog cleared up!
More from the 2016 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
Next Sunday when we tackle the 2016 backlog, we will visit with them Degeneffe boys!
By the time this gets published, I’ll probably be making the trudge up Expo Hill towards the Cultural Building to pick up my photos from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon.
If you didn’t get a chance to duck into the Cultural Building to check out my photos, that is fine. That is dandy. Here are the 4 pictures I entered. 2 were accepted for display. 2 were not.
Not selected for display.
Selected for display.
Selected for display.
2 pictures for display was a solid showing. You never know what the judges will like. I was surprised that Willy’s eye was selected for display. I thought of the 4, it had the worst chance to make it. I guess you never know.
A few statistics from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon:
1018 Photographers Entered
3201 Photographs Entered
Photographers from 20 other states entered
863 Adults Entered
466 of adults who entered have at least one photograph on display
27% of the photos entered were exhibited
I should start planning for next year, but that hasn’t really been my style, yet.
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Starting on the 3rd to last photo shoot from 2016 to have the 2016 backlog cleared up.
This collection is from the Howard Family Photo Shoot:
I told all the people that missed Saydie Sundays that she would be back. For at least one more week after this, even!
This picture for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT was taken a couple months back during the annual Howard Family Photo Shoot:
Here are some other I took during the same session that I like, but won’t be physically adhered in the physical manifestation of A PHOTO JOURNAL:
I’m not sure what page we will hammer out next time we check-in with THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Possibly pages 50-51.
