It is Senior Sunday once again! Everybody’s favorite day of the week! Once again, we will check-in with a collection of pictures of Autumn. These pictures of Autumn were taken on a farm near Gilbert.
Still got a several more Senior Sundays to go!
This is normally the time when I reflect on how my work from home week went this week. But I don’t really have anything to share this week. The main bonus I got from working from home this week is that I had a couple customers I had to work with outside of normal work hours. I didn’t have to hang around the office and wait to work with them. I just took a nap and did some yardwork, then I came back in and dealt with them.
I will get into details of the Master Playlist next Friday. I’m sure.
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Time once again to check in with pictures that were triggered by Elainie coming home last September. It is possible that I might be almost done with the 2019 backlog next week. More realistically, it will be the week after.
Here are some more pictures to enjoy:
Yep, there is even more Stenslands in the hopper. So many Stenslands.
Time for yet another collection of images from the 2019 Howard Family Photo Shoot. With this collection I am now over half-done curating the photos from this collection. The final collection will actually be a small one. Very small depending on what I do with the port-a-potty pictures that Jesse made us take.
Still more Howards to come!
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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is RULE OF THIRDS:
Think of RULE OF THIRDS like this:
The image is broken into 9 equal boxes. Place the subject of your image on one of the corners of the center box. NOT inside the middle box.
The subject could also go along one of the the 4 lines that go through the inside of the image. BUT not in the center of any of the middle boxes.
The reveal picture should be very helpful.
Happy photo harvesting!
Here in the 5th set of pictures triggered into existence by Elainie’s homecoming last September, Elainie makes a reappearance.
But there are also quite a few pictures of Alexis, Kupono, and Kanoa.
Of course, plenty of Sabas in this collection as well!
You’d think that we were halfway through all the Stensland photos, but we’re just warmed up now. So much more Stensland in our future!
Another collection of pictures that were triggered by Elainie coming home in September, but don’t include a single picture of Elainie.
Here is the fourth collection from that set of photos. Exclusively of Alexis, Kupono, and a very young Kanoa.
So many Stensland pictures left in the hopper. So many!!
This post is another in the series of pictures that were triggered by Elainie coming home back in September. However, there are no pictures of Elainie in this collection. All the pictures in this collection are of Alexis, Kupono, and Kanoa.
So much kissing!
Don’t worry, there are a ton more Stensland photos still to come!
32 straight weeks of double digit submissions! The fourth straight week that I didn’t send any reminder text messages this morning and still made double digit submissions, easy.
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the EMOTIONS submissions:
Jodie Cue
Jodie Cue
Kim Barker
Tamara Peterson
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Becky Parmelee
Aaron Barnett
Christopher D. Bennett
Monica Henning
Monica Henning
Elizabeth Nordeen
Andy Sharp
Andy Sharp
Andy Sharp
Michelle Haupt
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Elainie Stensland
Carla Stensland
Cathie Raley
Micky Augustin
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:
RULE OF THIRDS! What a great theme! But what is a RULE OF THIRDS picture. First you need to understand the RULE OF THIRDS:
“The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.[2] Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject.”
Most cameras by default have a default grid of the RULE OF THIRDS on the viewfinder. So RULE OF THIRDS should be one of the easiest themes yet!
If you are still struggling with the concept, look at the theme reveal picture. The goal here is to get the subject out of the center of the frame.
I look forward to seeing your interpretations!
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
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.
Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.
OR
I now allow people to text me their submissions. In the past, I had made exceptions for a couple people that aren’t real computer savvy, even though it was an inconvenience for me and required at least 3 extra steps for me. I am now lifting that embargo because I have a streamline way of uploading photos. I’m not giving out my phone number, but if you have it, you can text me.
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 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and do better next week.
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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very off-center Monday!
I need to start this post buy wishing all mothers out there a very happy Mother’s Day. Take this picture of a Mother’s Day Peony as my way of saying thanks for all that you mothers do!
My Mom’s Mother Day wasn’t typical. Teresa bought some Pizza Ranch chicken and we hung out and watched Netflix. She went out to Carla’s for a short grill-out in the evening. But I’m sure she still considered a successful Mother’s Day.
Hope all you mothers had a successful Mother’s Day too!
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Today is Becca’s birthday. Happy birthday Becca!
I hope it was a truly magical birthday!
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Also, happy birthday to Michelle!
I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted it to be!
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Finally, it is yet another Senior Sunday and it is once again Taylan’s turn in the rotation. Here are more pictures of Taylan:
Still a ton more Taylan photos still to come!
35 days working from home in the book. I did discover a new positive about working from home this week. I had to go into the physical computer mine twice this week because Apple products suck. They really do. I have nothing positive to say about them.
But that isn’t the positive. The positive I figured out two positives for working from home on my trip to the mine.
One, I can control the lights in my office. I usually just daylight that streams in from my south facing office windows is enough. But on cloudy days I will sometimes run a lamp. If I need more light for some reason I can turn on the overhead lamp.
The mine has the soul crushing fluorescent lighting that is always on. I miss many things about the mine, but the lighting isn’t one of them.
The other positive, my own toilet paper. Seems like a minor thing, but the toilet paper at the mine leaves a lot to be desired. A lot!
My home listening habits were the same. Life 107.1 from 7-9. Then The Master Playlist until 2 PM roughly. This week I made it all the way to track number 1456, “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt.
A decent pandemic song:
“You and me, we used to be together
Every day together, always
I really feel that I’m losin’ my best friend
I can’t believe this could be the end”
I did delete a couple songs from the Master Playlist for sound quality reasons:
#1337 – “You” by Candlebox
#1299 – “Slow Ride” by Foghat
Pretty sure I will finish off the Master Playlist next week. At that time, it will be time, to start adding to it. That should be fun!
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Here is a reminder that the Sharp family is collecting empty laundry detergent jugs to fill with homemade laundry detergent to donate to local pantries. They have setup a collection can at the end of their driveway for you to leave your empty jugs.
They live at the very end of Division Street. Keep going south on Division until you can’t go any farther. It is easy and contact free. I dropped off a couple of jugs last night:
If you can’t find it, drop your jugs off to me and I’ll get them there.
Here are a few pictures of their soap operation that Andy has sent me:
It is a great ministry and I hope some of you can help them out!
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Last Saturday I went over to Iowa State to walk the campus with Teresa. While I was there I took a few TREE pictures that didn’t quite make the cut for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE on Monday. Here are a few of them:
Iowa State University, still world’s reigning champ for most beautiful campus!
The cherry blossom pictures are from my backyard though.
I need to start this post by announcing that the Sharp family is making laundry detergent like crazy and donating it to area food banks like IMPACT and the Toreador Pantry.
However, they need more laundry detergent jugs, so they have set up a garbage can at the end of their driveway where people can donate jugs for them to fill. No jug is too small or too big.
You can find the donation dropoff spot at the end of their driveway.
The live at 1005 South Division Street in Boone. Basically keep going south on Division Street until you can’t go any farther. There will be some photos of their work shared at a later point.
Thanks to anybody that donates!
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Happy birthday to Kelly! She doesn’t subscribe to this blog, so she will never see this, but happy birthday anyways:
I hope it is a great birthday!
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Time for another collection of Stensland pictures I took when Elainie came home last fall:
A reminder that I love the candid pictures that I take between the posed pictures so much more than I do the posed pictures. But that is maybe just me.
So much more coming from Elainie’s homecoming.
