I haven’t posted a picture of an animal (besides Naima) for a bit. No worries though. This animal posting will not make any references to the current inane social media debate.
I present a ground squirrel…
I found this guy scurrying around the Memorial Union. The only one that I know exists.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 160
FOCAL LENGTH: 70mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/125
DATE: 05/331/2016 – 16:39
LATITUDE: 42.02441°
LONGITUDE: -93.64683°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nader Parsaei
EMOTIONS was a profoundly unpopular theme. I’m sure destined to hit the cutting room floor if this challenge extends into a second year. Maybe it was the holiday weekend. Maybe people were like feelings? Actually feeling something? No thanks! Back to my mass consumerism, thank you very much*. Either way, Angie was the only person that kept this theme from being a shutout and being the first strike against this challenge.
Here are the submissions for EMOTIONS:
Angie DeWaard
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…
Back when I was compiling the list of 52 themes, I thought about breaking PERSPECTIVE into LOW PERSPECTIVE and HIGH PERSPECTIVE, but I thought it would be interesting, given the choice where people would go. The level of a rat or the level of an eagle. Both animals forage through trash for food, but their perspective on the world is totally different.
However, being high or low isn’t the only definition of perspective. As always, feel free to define perspective any way that you want.
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.
That’s all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune again next Monday. Hopefully with a lot of new perspectives on the world.
*Just wanted to make sure everybody knows that I’m a minimalist and that I’m super excited about the new movie coming out about my people.
QUESTION 7
Quentin Tarantino famously was once quoted as saying: “When I’m getting serious about a girl I show her RIO BRAVO and she better (expletive deleted) like it.” What one of my 3 favorite movies do I use as a test of the quality of the people in my life? They better (expletive deleted) like it!
ANSWER: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
BONUS
What are my other 2 favorite movies? To earn the point, you must include the year of release.
KING KONG (1933) & PSYCHO (1960)
The collection of COUNTRY losers from the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE isn’t large in size, but the magnitude of their loserness…
I’m actually all caught up on my losers now.
The images posted here are from the folder 02-22-07.
As promised, there is some squirrel.
The next folder is supposed to be 02-28-07, but it seems to be just a bunch of pictures that were already in another folder, so we’ll probably just skip that one and move on.
This folder, entitled SNOW, comes from January of 2007.
Next week’s folder is entitled 02-22-07. Probably pretty obvious what is in that folder.
This collection images comes from a folder called “Minnesota”. It is also from January 2006.
These were taken on the Mississippi River in Saint Paul.
Next Saturday’s folder is entitled “Sculpture Garden”.
Quick post today:
Lots of submissions for PET! Here they are:
ANGIE DEWAARD
CARLA STENSLAND
DUSTIN JACKSON 1
DUSTIN JACKSON 2
DUSTIN JACKSON 3
KIM BARKER 1
KIM BARKER 2
SARAH KARBER
TERESA KAHLER
SHANNON BARDOLE
MICHELLE HAUPT
Great submissions! Keep the momentum rolling with this week’s theme:
Should be an easy one! Everybody has access to a tree or even trees!
No HOUSEKEEPING this week.
This past weekend I spent hanging with my church’s youth group at the Y Camp.
There were numerous interesting moments, that I’d share with a person face to face.
But one of my favorite moments was watching a bald eagle swoop down out of the air and onto a sandbar on the opposite side of the Des Moines River. Although the eagle was too far away for me to get a decent photo, I did at least get a photo.
Here is that photo:
This will not be the last time you hear about that weekend.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 800
FOCAL LENGTH: 300mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/500
DATE: 03/06/2016 – 8:24
NO GPS DATA
I think there were a healthy amount of SELF-PORTRAIT submissions this week. I know that submitting a selfie isn’t for everybody, it takes a certain amount of courage or arrogance. Whatever. Not judging.
Here are this week’s submissions for SELF-PORTRAIT:
Michelle Haupt
Angie DeWaard
Christopher D. Bennett
Bill Wentworth
Some great submissions… obviously.
But why dwell on the past… Let’s look to the future or more specifically… let’s look to this week’s theme:
Almost everybody has a pet. Yes there are a few out there that don’t have pets. Living lives of quiet desperation. Usually in Ankeny. However, even these people have access to the pets of other people. So I’m expecting big numbers next week.
As always, I can’t wait to see the submissions.
Also, remember. Your submission has to be taken the week of the theme AND has to be emailed to me at bennett@photography139.com by noon on Monday.
PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
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I feel like it has been too long since I published a picture of Naima.
So I’m going to remedy that:
Naima does love new fallen snow. Probably because she doesn’t have to snow. Oh wait… I never have to shovel snow either!
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/200
DATE TAKEN: 02/14/2016 15:52
LATITUDE: 42.05517°
LONGITUDE: -93.87072°
FIELD OF VIEW: 22.6°
