There are quite a few pictures that couldn’t make the cut for this week’s theme RELIGION:
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Here are a few STILL LIFE photos that didn’t make the cut for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
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Old Salvation Army Building Wall Phase #2 Beta
Mediacom. That is all I’m going to say for now.
So these pictures actually started out with me just wanting to document a little bit of the Mural Project progress, but then a bunch of kids wanted to take pictures. Which made me nervous, but I let Jaxson, Wyatt, and Kyle take the majority of these picture while I stood as close to them as possible.
This week, I’m going to bring the camera that wasn’t a thousand dollars with the $700 dollar lens attached to it and let them go as wild as they want.
The first mural has been finished and will be going up this Wednesday. Hopefully. At least that is the plan, Stan.
Old Salvation Army Building Wall Phase #2 Alpha
Here are a few more photos of the progress we’ve made with the Old Salvation Army Building Wall. Where the windows are boarded up, we are going to put up murals. The work on those began on Wednesday night in Fellowship Hall.
This one is going to be a cross with paint drippings behind it.
Some of the ideas.
Working on tracing hands for a heart-hand thing.
More of the same.
Bonus picture of Sarah G. leading Devotions/Worship.
Hoping to make significantly more progress on a couple of them this Wednesday night!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 40 – BLUE
I though I would be Johnny-on-the-Spot and guess this out as soon as I got back from Milwaukee, but I spent my weekend being in parades, helping give sermons, raising money through pie auctions, supping with friends and family, going on walks with Naima, going to baby showers, watching about a thousand secondary characters I don’t care about get killed on GAME OF THRONES, and sleeping. Lots of sleeping. Laundry too.
This morning was the first time I’ve touched a computer in over 8 days.
So without further adieu, here are the submissions for BLUE:
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Stephanie Kim 1
Stephanie Kim 2
Angie DeWaard
Christopher D. Bennett
In a couple of hours, I’ll be posting the images from HOMETOWN. Better get the emailed to bennett@photography139.com soon!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 36 – LETTERS AND/OR NUMBERS
It looks like LETTERS AND/OR NUMBERS also wasn’t an extremely popular theme. Might have to put it on the chopping block if this little project continues into a second year. I guess we’ll see.
On the positive though, it was extremely popular with first time submitter Sara Lockner. Hopefully this won’t be the last time a theme rings the creative bell for Sara.
This week’s submissions:
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Sara Lockner 1
Sara Lockner 2
Sara Lockner 3
Sara Lockner 4
Angie DeWaard
Christopher D. Bennett
Becky Perkovich
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 is…
EMOTIONS!
But what are EMOTIONS! Google defines EMOTION as a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationship with others. So capture somebody displaying an emotion. Even a second hand emotion like love. Or capture a scene that is the result of a emotion. Capture an image that is supposed to incite an emotion. (Although, quite frankly I hope that is what you’re trying to do with every image.) Or as always, define the theme any way that you want.
HOUSEKEEPING
RULES
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 noon 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 REMINDER DIVISION
A reminder that you can check out all the submission thus far by visiting the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE TAKE 3 Gallery on this here website. Click the below:
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE TAKE 3 GALLERY
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
I’m pleased to announce that the Persons are the latest people to show their taste, class, and sophistication by grabbing a Photography 139 email subscription. The short scoop on them is that they are the most talented photographers I know and have been family friends for as long as I have memories. If you see them out and about walking the mean streets of Boone, give them a knowing glance and show them the Super Secret Photography 139 handshake.
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, we will commune again next Monday. Hopefully with a plethora of EMOTIONS pictures!
Paisley Park
This last weekend I made a trip up with Nate and Laura to visit Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, and Colleen. On Saturday night we made our way to Long Lake to eat at Primo. Dae Hee and I left early so we could swing by Paisley Park to see the Prince Memorial.
Below are some pictures.
So part of the reason I went to Paisley Park is because it was history. It was like going to Graceland after Elvis died. However, it wasn’t the majority of the reason that I went.
I don’t normally get too caught up in celebrity deaths. It is usually a time when people flock to social media to overstate their “relationship” with the deceased celebrity.
However Prince’s death to have an effect on me. I can’t claim to be a huge fan of Prince’s music, although I did enjoy it. I also admired his musicality and he was without a doubt one of the foremost musical geniuses of the last 50 years. He produced an album a year for over a decade. There are rumors that he has well over a thousand unreleased songs that he has recorded and not released. On some of his biggest hits he played every instrument on the recording. Often recording the song in one day. Often recording more than one song in a day in this manner.
One of my favorite Prince stories is when he played the Super Bowl halftime show in the pouring rain. The producers of the halftime show were worried that he would want to pull out. When they called him and asked him about the rain he gave a great response.
“Can you make it rain harder?”
The rain didn’t stop until he played his final song of the night, Purple Rain. Despite this fact, he gave what was easily the best Super Bowl Halftime show in history. A show that will stand the test of time for its pure virtuosity alone.
I’ll miss Prince because one of my fondest memories of my childhood was my eldest sister Teresa’s friends infatuation with Prince (even though I think Teresa was more into Phil Collins). One even dressed like Prince and his license plates matched Prince’s from PURPLE RAIN. It is up there with listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 on family road trips. Or Dad telling Teresa that if she wanted to go Hall some Oates, he could take her to a farm.
Prince dying is like a piece of my childhood dying.
I may have to become an adult yet.
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 28 – SILHOUETTE
This week being more of a challenging theme, it was expected that participation might take a dip. However, on the positive side, my nephew Logan became a first time contributor. I’m expecting big things from that guy in the future.
The submissions for SILHOUETTE:
Bill Wentworth
Logan Kahler 1
Logan Kahler 2
Logan Kahler 3
Angie DeWaard
Christopher D. Bennett
Kim Barker
Carla Stensland
But what is this week’s theme?!?!?
Look below this text…
SHAPES!
A quick shout out to the Baier clan for providing the blocks for the Theme Release Image.
So what does that SHAPES mean? You could almost take a picture of anything and submit it and say “that has a shape”, however what you really want to look for is a subject or scene where a shape or shapes are heavy in the composition. A tile floor. A pile of pipes. A brick wall. A bunch of street signs. You get the idea.
However, define the theme any way that you want.
We haven’t went over the rules lately, so here is a quick refresher.
RULES
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.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by noon 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.
Once again, no HOUSEKEEPING this week. I’ll try to do better next Monday.
And Put it in Neutral
Here is a collection of images I took for the WEEKLY CHALLENGE, that didn’t make the cut. JUNK, GRAFFITI, MUSIC, and LANDMARK are all included.
I’ll try to be better next time.
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 20 – MUSIC
This week’s theme was MUSIC. There must not many lovers of MUSIC out there as participation took a bit of a dip this week. That is okay, because the submissions were great. Hopefully next week’s theme trips more triggers.
The submissions for MUSIC:
KIMBERLY BARKER
CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
ANGIE DEWAARD
SARAH KARBER
Time to reveal this week’s theme:
LANDMARK!
While there aren’t many music lovers out there, maybe there are numerous LANDMARK lovers out there.
What is a LANDMARK?
Something that a town might be known for. A famous thing. Like the Campanile at Iowa State or the water tower in Ogden. Something that if you were giving directions, you would reference. At Milton Lott’s Grave, take a right. Right into the river.
Time for a reminder of the rules.
RULES
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.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by noon 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.
HOUSEKEEPING
PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
Nothing new to report. Nobody showed their keen intellect and sophisticated tastes by becoming an email subscriber to this here blog.
Maybe you have a keen intellect and sophisticated tastes and would like to become an email subscriber to this here blog, but don’t know how.
It is easy, just send an email to this email: bennett@photography139.com indicating that you would like to become an email subscriber. The benefits are… well there are just too many to describe at this time.
PHOTOGRAPHY 139 ONGOING PHOTO PROJECT DIVISION
A reminder that the THE SELF-PORTRAIT PROJECT is ongoing and you can check it out by following the link below:
THE SELF-PORTRAIT PROJECT
That is it for today. I look forward to all the LANDMARKS that end up in my inbox.