Category Archives: Black & White

Angie, Animals, Art, Becky, Black & White, Personal Photo Project

Personal Photo Project of the Week #46 Beta

December 18, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett 6 Comments

The rest of the I Recommend Pleasant pictures.

Personal Photo Project #46 Alternate - I Recommend Pleasant

I think if you look closely at these pictures, you can see the exact moment where Foster is no long amused.

Something else I am reminded of when I look at these pictures is that I need to invest in another backdrop. I’ve also been considering painting the “studio” area of my basement silver. Mostly because of its light reflective properties and it will look awesome in black and white. I do worry that people will think that I stole the idea from Andy Warhol and I can’t stand Andy Warhol. I can live with it though.

There have been a couple of developments in the world of Foster Q. Bunny.

1. Thanks to Angie, Foster now has an actual cage. Foster was living in a giant rubbermaid container with a screen window on top to prevent escape attempts.
2. My rabbit expert Becky came over and sexed up Foster. Foster is officially a chick rabbit. Good thing Foster is an androgynous name.

Animals, Black & White, Dawn, Personal Photo Project, Shannon

Personal Photo Project of the Week #46 Alpha

December 17, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

I Recommend Pleasant

There is a long and elaborate story about how this rabbit came into my possession. The details that you need to know are that he was homeless so I opened up my home to him.

To slightly elaborate, I borrowed him from Dawn to photograph. While he was in my care all of his siblings died a horrible parasitic death. So he has kind of de facto became mine.

However, he needed a name. I understand that naming a rabbit is kind of like naming a car or a cat or fish or a washing machine. It is a complete waste of time. But since it easier to just say “Name X” rather than explaining why it is a waste of time to name a rabbit I finally settled on the name Foster Q. Bunny.

I gave him the name Foster to remind him that the people that were supposed to love him rejected him. I never want him to forget that. It will burn inside him and propel him to greatness. The Q. part is from John Q. Public. I want him to be a rabbit of the people. The bunny part is fairly self-evident. Bunny is clearly cuter than rabbit and lepus gives me nightmares because of the epic giant rabbit movie Night of the Lepus.

A special thanks to Shannon for acting as the bunny wrangler on this job.

Here are more pictures from the I Recommend Pleasant Photo Sessions.

Just a quick reminder. Nobody has correctly answered the most recent Christopher D. Bennett Trivia Question.

If you would like to take a guess, follow this link and try your luck in the “Comments” section. You can also read more of my political rantings.

Proust No. Three

You can guess more than once, but only one guess at a time.

Baier, Black & White, Julie, Still Life, Vest, WPC - Submissions

RWPE #49 – Love

December 13, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

A few people had their imaginations lit by the concept of LOVE. There were 4 submissions. The male to female ration was 3:1. Proof positive that men are the truly romantic gender.

Mike Vest

Christopher D. Bennett

Jason Baier

Julie Johnson

Only 3 weeks left. The theme for this week might be a little tricky:

RESTAURANTS

I can imagine this will be a hard theme for some people. Especially with a busy holiday season, but I have hope. Maybe there are people that love restaurants more than they love love?

Animals, Black & White, Dawn, Macro, Personal Photo Project, Shannon

Personal Photo Project of the Week #45

December 10, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett 7 Comments

Turtle Thoughts are Turtle

Special thanks should go to Dawn for loaning me this homeless turtle and to Shannon for acting as turtle wrangler on the inside photos of my stinky friend.

More pictures from the Turtle Thoughts are Turtle Photo Sessions.

My understanding is that this homeless turtle eventually found a home where he is being tortured with country music.

Black & White, Dawn, Photoshop, Self-Portrait, Vest, WPC - Submissions

RWPE #47 – Discover

November 29, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett

I don’t know if it was the theme or if it was the holiday, but once again submissions were somewhat anemic. Here are the submissions for DISCOVER.

Christopher D. Bennett

IMAGE LOST
Dawn Krause

Mike Vest

There are only 5 themes left before this little experiment starts over. I went down and kicked the Random Theme Generator and told it to give me a theme that would light the fires of creativity under more people. It just sat there. Then it spit out the following theme:

ACTIVE

On the surface that seems like a good solid theme that could be interpreted in a bazillion different ways. Hopefully this will get RWPE back on track.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Kalista, Kelly, Saydie, Taylan

The 2010 Howards

November 24, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

Here are some pictures from the 2010 Howards Photo Shoot. It got dark really quick.

I’m already looking forward to the 2011 Photo Shoot!

Angie, Black & White, Formal Portrait

3 Months

November 23, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett 8 Comments

I took some pictures of Alice when she was 3 months. Here are a few of my favorites from that photo shoot:

There will be Alice pictures at 3 month intervals, if you are scoring at home.

Art, Black & White, Dawn, Vest, WPC - Submissions, Writing

RWPE #46 – Spiritual

November 22, 2010 Christopher D. Bennett

The theme of SPIRITUAL didn’t ring the bell of many people this week. It reminds me of one of my favorite Daniel Tosh jokes.

“When people tell me, ‘I’m not religious, but I’m spiritual’, I tell them ‘I’m not honest but you’re interesting.'”

Here are the submissions for SPIRITUAL:

Dawn Krause

Mike Vest

Christopher D. Bennett

Dawn’s Poetry Submission

Spiritual

I thought of love in its glory
How each of us has a story
I thought of awe and thought of grace
Survival of the human race

And so it came I thought real hard
Of birds and trees in the yard
Of what it was that gave us life
And gave us strength in our strife

I pondered on many things
Of promises and wedding rings
Of how it is we know He’s there
The change we sense in the air

I felt a warmth begin to spread
It filled my soul from toe to head
I yearned to stay within that light
And so I prayed and said good night

We are definitely in the homestretch now. Just a handful of themes for the RTG to spit out. The theme for this week has been spat:

DISCOVER

That is a good broad theme. Hopefully it will light a fire of creativity under several people and the submission pool will gain a good depth again next week.

Art, Becca, Black & White, Flowers, Macro, Photoshop, Road Trip