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2017 Photography 139 Calendar Cover

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I spent the last few days designing the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar.

The design of this calendar is different than the last several years in a few different ways.

1. This isn’t a flower photography only calendar. There are flower pictures, but they are the minority.
2. Gone is all the old ways I lined pictures up with certain months in the past.
3. Each picture is lined up with a month that the picture was taken in. For example, the January 2017 image was taken in January of 2016. December’s picture was taken in December of 2015.
4. The number format is the same as 2016, but I’ve added back some of the “holidays” from calendars past.
5. A price for this year’s calendar has yet to be determined. I haven’t quite figured out how much it cost me to make, but it will probably be in that $10 range again this year.
6. I didn’t include a “title” or location of the pictures, despite people requesting that. I didn’t find away to do it that I liked. Maybe in 2018.

So without further adieu, I present the cover of the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar:


2017 Calendar - Cover
Cover

This picture came from a THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE reject for the theme MACRO. I chose this picture because I decided not to include any portraits or animals on the inside of the calendar, I wanted the cover to include a self-portrait. This is my favorite self-portrait from 2016.

I will have ordering information in a future post. I’m sure.

Animals

Howard the Spider

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(Editor’s note: Pretend like I published it on the day I intended.)

It is Black Friday. My least favorite day of the year. The day where my faith in humanity has to be reset as mass-consumerism runs amok. People fight each other. Sometimes kill one another, so they can save 50 cents on socks or get Best Buy deals that will come around again in 2 weeks.

Or as one of my spirit animals* Tyler Durden would say:

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don’t need.

My Black Friday traditions.

1. Sleeping in.
2. Watching FIGHT CLUB
3. Ring the bell for the Salvation Army, as I see it as the least consumerism thing I can do. It is my 1 man silent protest to the day of the year that brings out the worst in humanity.

When I get all black and dark about the state of humanity, I like to look at pictures of cute and cuddly creatures. I thought I would share one that makes me feel joy on this darkest of days.




You’re welcome America.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
LENS: 60mm
ISO: 500
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 10/02/2016 – 14:50
NO GPS DATA RECORDED
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Keep On Looking” by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

*The upcoming generation is really big into spirit animals.

Animals

Squirrelly

As I was leaving the Junck farm a few months back I spied this guy hanging around by their driveway.




I’m not going to identify the species of this guy because I know there is somebody out there waiting to say, “Well actually it is a 13 lined ground squirrel.” While sipping their morning cup of joe.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 125
FOCAL LENGTH: 300mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/500
NO GPS DATA RECORDED
DATE: 07/31/2016 – 14:07
PHOTO ASSISTANT: The Juncks
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “What the Rain Will Bring” by Pokey LaFarge

Animals, Vest, Work

Mantisdemic

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Got a message that I needed come up front at work the other day. When I got up there, it was to check out this guy:




It was a good day at work!

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 160
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
DATE: 10/10/16 – 11:39
LATITUDE: 42.01246°
LONGITUDE: -93.61196°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Vest
EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Real” by NF