Category Archives: Black & White

Black & White, Christianity, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Night, Sarah Toot, Self-Portrait, Steph, Still Life, Street Photography, Tim, Travel, Vacation, Vest

NYC – One

November 20, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in this collection are in a folder called New York City. These pictures are from a trip I took with Jesse to visit my cousin Sarah and her beau Tim. They live in Manhattan. We made this trip in 2011 and I thought that I’d probably go out and visit every couple of years. I haven’t been back since, and that is really pathetic.

There are also pictures in this collection I took with a pinhole camera.

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #58

RANDOM NEW YORK CITY IMAGES

MORE RANDOM NEW YORK CITY – NEAR GROUND ZERO

The next time we take a stroll down memory lane, that memory lane will still be in New York City.

Art, Black & White, Christianity, Flowers, History, Road Trip

Pocahontas County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1

November 17, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

Several weeks back I cruised around Pocahontas County harvesting their town signs. Pocahontas County is the home of the most awesome statue in Iowa. It is also home to one of the worst statues in Iowa. In this collection you will see the most awesome statue in Iowa.

Rolfe

Plover

Havelock

Laurens

I want to meet Bob.

There is one more collection of images from Pocahontas County still left to be shared.

Animals, Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Jill, Photoshop, Shannon, Still Life, Street Photography

March Misc.

November 13, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

As I’ve indicated before, the 2011 folders are a disaster. These images cover most of the March 2011 folders. These are mostly pictures that were taken for the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT (now called THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE), but a few were taken for a PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT.

WEEK 9 - SILHOUETTE - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

RWPE Y2 #9 – SILHOUETTE

RWPE Y2 #10 – STILL LIFE

RWPE Y2 #11 – COMMUNICATION

RWPE Y2 #12 – UNFOCUSED

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #60

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve New York City.

Art, Automobiles, Black & White, Flowers, History, Nature, Railroad, Road Trip

Hancock County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3

November 10, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

Here is the final collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Hancock County. Although I would say about 50% of these pictures were taken in other counties. Like Winnebago County or Cerro Gordo County or Worth County.

Forest City

Pilot Knob State Park

Fertile

Thornton

Dows

The next county I need to share auxiliary images from is Pocahontas County.

Art, Baseball/Softball, Black & White, Road Trip, Ruins

Hancock County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2

November 7, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

Here is the second collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Hancock County back several weeks ago:

Britt

Crystal Lake

Woden

Forest City

I’ve decided to start incorporating hobo signs into my everyday communication. There is one more collection of Hancock County pictures still to come.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jill

2011-02-27

November 6, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 2011-02-27 are from a photo shoot I did with Jill. Some are for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. One was displayed at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon.

Here are the pictures from the folder 2011-02-27:

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #65

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #67

RWPE Y2 #8 – MARKET

The next walk down memory lane will involve Derrick and music methinks. Amongst other things.

Art, Black & White, Christianity, Road Trip

Hancock County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1

October 31, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

Several weeks back I cruised around Hancock County harvesting their town signs. It was a solo trip. Some of these pictures were taken in Hamilton County. I stopped in Webster City to take a picture of their courthouse. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from this road trip:

Warning to the Puritans in the audience, there be boobs ahead!

Webster City

Goodell

Kanawha

Corwith

Garner

Duncan

Britt

This is something that has bothered me ever since I’ve seen it. The One Nation Under God wall. That seems fine to me. But why did they think it was necessary to add “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”. Do they not respect Hindu or Sikh or the other over 200 religions recognized by the United States Military? Is it necessary to put up a stinger that says, “Screw you Buddhist veterans!”

I don’t think so.

And my actual theory is that this was a clumsy attempt to be Islamophobic. Although I believe that Moslems would argue that they do worship the “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” I mean after all, Abraham (Ibrahim) is the second most referenced person in the Qu’ran. Even bad attempts at Islamaphobia are disgraceful.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the people of Britt just really hate Wiccan Veterans. Either way, it ruins what is otherwise a beautiful park giving tribute to veterans.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Shannon, Still Life, Willy

2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20

October 30, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The images in the folders 2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20 are mostly from THE NINE EMOTIONS PROJECT. Then there is also a picture I took for Valentine’s Day.

Here are the pictures in the folders 2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20:

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #55

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #63

The next time we walk down memory lane it will involve Jill.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jay, Jesse

2011-02-11

October 23, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 2011-02-11 are of Jesse and Jay posing for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT.

Here are the pictures from 2011-02-11:

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory:

PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK #61

The next time we take a walk down memory lane it will involve more of THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT.

Art, Baseball/Softball, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Christianity, Flowers, Road Trip, Shannon

Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3

October 20, 2021 Christopher D. Bennett

This is the final set of peripheral images I took on my road trip with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. The last couple of pictures are from Maxwell that I took on my way back home. I stopped there because I still needed to photograph their Freedom Rock. They have a tank next to their Freedom Rock. Story County don’t play.

Martensdale

Churchville

Cumming

Summerset

Maxwell

It was a good trip and hopefully Shannon joins me for another town sign harvesting trip in the future.