The goal of my birthday road trip was Dunning Springs in Decorah. The photo below proves I made it:
I actually want to go back to Decorah and spend a little more time up there this summer. I guess we’ll see what happens.
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CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2
ISO: 125
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/3.5
EXPOSURE: 1/60
DATE: 05/20/2017 – 16:11
NO GPS DATA RECORDED
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Wet socks
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Take the Coltrane” by Duke Ellington from DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE
Here is another tulip photo from my brief trip to the Pella Tulip Festival:
No Kio, no pictures of What Cheer yet. But they are in the pipe.
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CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/5
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 05/06/2017 – 16:24
NO GPS DATA RECORDED
PHOTO ASSISTANTS: MOM, TERESA, AND LOGAN
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Oh Lord” by NF from THERAPY SESSION
FAVORITE LYRICS: “Leave me alone God, I’ll call you when I need you again; Which is funny, everyone will sleep in the pews; Then blame God for our problems, like He sleeping on you.”
My birthday present to myself was hitting the open road with just my thoughts, a killer playlist, and my camera. Union Grove Park was one of my first stops. Took this photo there.
Often people tell me that they want to go on one of my photo road trips, but I think it is rare, the person that could survive, let alone thrive under the conditions of my pilgrimages. But applicants are welcome, but you know, they aren’t often accepted.
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CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/125
DATE: 05/20/2017 – 12:04
PHOTO ASSISTANT: A good towel would’ve helped. Wish I would’ve had one of them.
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “One Day” by Matisyahu from LIGHT
FAVORITE LYRIC: “Sometimes in my tears I drown; But I never let it get me down; So when negativity surrounds, I know some day it’ll all turn around.”
More pictures that didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme AMERICANA:
Who know what these pictures could accomplish, if only they believed in themselves.
This is part of the collection of photos that didn’t have what it takes for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme AMERICANA:
If only these pictures believed in themselves, who knows what they could accomplish.
A couple Saturdays back I loaded up into an automobile with Mom, Teresa, and Logan and we headed to the What Cheer Flea Market. This photo has nothing to do with What Cheer, Iowa. On the way back we went through Pella to check out their world famous tulips. Here is a photo from that part of the road trip:
This portion of the road trip was slightly damaged by an overzealous, drunk-with-power, Johnny Law. However, my mood recovered enough from that interaction to enjoy the rest of the trip.
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CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/2.8
EXPOSURE: 1/100
DATE: 05/16/2017 – 16:11
PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Mom, Teresa, and Logan
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “All I Have” by NF from MANSION
FAVORITE LYRIC: You sniff lines, I write lines, you’ve now entered my mind.
One of the smartest and most talented and most interesting people I know!
For those of you who don’t have the good fortune to know Stephanie, she is in the bunny glasses.
Unrelated, for some reason Michelle from day job made this video. Enjoy:
As always, if you are an email subscriber to this here blog, you will have to go to the website to watch the video. It is 16 seconds long and it is glorious!
The images in the folder called 08-14-07B are all from a trip to Living History Farms that Shannon arranged for me.
Next Saturday’s folder will involve a trip to a flooded Ledges.
Here are some of my favorite images from the Selfie Project for the month of April:
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Of course, remember that I publish these on the daily on Instagram and you can follow me over here: @christopherdbennett
There are so many images in the folder 08-14-07/Iowa State Fair, that I’m only going to post some of my favorites. Here they be:
Next Saturday’s folder will center around a trip to Living History Farms.
