Time for another collection of pictures from the 2017 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
There are still more pictures of the 2017 Howards coming your way!
The 2017 Howards – Gamma
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2017 Pufferbilly Days Petting Zoo
This is the final collection of photos from the 2017 Pufferbilly Days.
These pictures are from the petting zoo, which is one of my favorite parts of Pufferbilly Days. Behind the Photo Contest and the food. Although the food wasn’t really all that great this year.
But I digress…
If you liked the 2017 petting zoo photos, I bet you’ll love the 2018 petting zoo photos!
07-20-07
The images from the folder 07-20-07 run the gamut from pictures from the first mission trip I ever went on to pictures from the Miller Farm to pictures from a RAGBRAI stop in Ames.
The mission trip photos are from Cedar Rapids. I went with an adult group from my church.
The Miller Farm pictures were taken before June and Dean moved off the farm and into town.
The mission trip to Cedar Rapids was after a flood. After working the second day, you drove home. One the second day we worked in a house where they had to pull a Youth Group out of because they found pornography.
I still can’t describe how bad that house smelled. The family had left their cat behind. It survived the initial flood. Then it came back to the house. Then it crapped all over the house. Well, mostly behind the couch. The food was still in the fridge. You could stand on the other side of the street and still smell the house.
By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Photography Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:
Jeff and Yin
There are a ton more pictures from the Cedar Rapids Mission Trip than I posted here. You can peruse those by clicking on the link below:
Cedar Rapids Mission Trip – 2008
There are also a ton more pictures from the Miller Farm. You can peruse those by clicking the link below:
Miller Farm – 2008
Next week’s walk down memory lane will involve a vacation I made to Kentucky.
The 2017 Howards – Beta
Time for another collection of pictures from the 2017 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
More Howard pictures are on their way soon. Like in 7 days!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 159 – ARCHITECTURE
Before we get into the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, here is my plea to help the Boone First United Methodist Church’s Youth Group fund their annual mission trip:
Download and print that flyer. Cut it into 4 coupons. Then, come to the Boone Pizza Ranch this Wednesday night and have supper. Between 5-9.
Where: Boone Pizza Ranch
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Time: 5-9
What: Mission Trip Fundraiser
The Boone First United Methodist Church will be going to Rapid City, South Dakota for a mission trip the last week of June. Help us get the kids there!
Thank you!!!
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It was a good rebound week. More people were moved by the ARCHITECTURE theme than the previous week.
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:
Carla Stensland
Christopher D. Bennett
Jaxon Schoff
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Kim Barker
Tamara Peterson
Tamara Peterson
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
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:
Mouth
MOUTH! What a great theme! But what is a MOUTH photo? A MOUTH photo would be any photo that involves a MOUTH. Or things that go in a MOUTH or is used by a MOUTH. Of course, there is more than one definition of MOUTH.
I look forward to seeing your interpretations!
HOUSEKEEPING
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
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 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date. 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 mouthy Monday.
The 2017 Howards – Alpha
About this time last year I headed to McHose Park and photographed the Howards for their annual family photo.
This Sunday, we will be heading to Cedar Falls for this year’s family photo.
But let us just enjoy last year’s for now:
Plenty more pictures of the Howards in the next week or so!
A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 55
A few weeks back Jay sent me an enigmatic message about archaeological photography. After drilling down, I figure out he was talking about taking pictures of a recently abandoned apartment in his building. An apartment that the former occupants left in less than stellar conditions.
One Sunday after a post church meal with the family I grabbed a camera and went over to Jay’s apartment building for a tour of Apartment 4. After a quick look around, I knew that somewhere in this mess was a perfect subject for Page 55 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
Page 55 – ‘I am at war with the obvious.’ William Eggleston. Join Eggleston’s war.
Here is the idea for this page in THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT from the tips in the back.
Sunsets, pretty flowers, and beaches. These are ‘obvious’ subjects offering a conventional idea of beauty. Instead, hunt down more unusual, surprising subjects-the sort that only come alive when they are photographed.
Only one picture can physically be adhered into the physical manifestation of THE PHOTO JOURNAL, however I did take several other pictures in Apartment 4. Here are the pictures that I like, but won’t be place in THE PHOTO JOURNAL.
Next time we check in with THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, we will probably check in with Page 40 or Page 47 or Page 111.
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Here is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is PERSPECTIVE.
A PERSPECTIVE photo is any photo that involves a different perspective from the way you normally see the world. Above where you normally see the world. Below where you normally see the world. Another example of perspective is making something small look big by putting it in the foreground and something large in the background. This is called forced perspective.
PERSPECTIVE!
Happy photo harvesting!
The Great Eclipse Failure of ’17 – Dos
Here are more pictures from our mostly failed trip to Saint Joseph, Missouri to see the Solar Eclipse back in 2017.
These pictures aren’t exactly in chronological order because I used 2 camera on this day and I didn’t have the foresight to synchronize their clocks.
There is one more set of solar eclipse photos in the hopper.
2017 Pufferbilly Days Pet Show I
Now that Pufferbilly Days has passed, it seems like an apropos time to hit the 2017 backlog and start releasing photos from the 2017 Pufferbilly Days Pet Show.
It was my first time at the Pufferbilly Day Pet Show ran by the Boone Area Humane Society.
I completely enjoyed the experience. Here are some pictures from the Pet Show:
More pictures from the 2017 Pet Show still in the hopper!
Them Degeneffe Boys – Volume 2
As Pufferbilly Days wound to a close, I would like to share the photos that were selected by popular vote and how they did in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest:
No Love.
No Love.
No Love.
3rd Place – Hidden Treasures of Boone County.
1st Place – Photojournalism.
1st Place – Photoshop.
As far as I know, there wasn’t anybody else in the contest that I know. Once again, they didn’t put any names on any of the photos. In years past they had at least put a sheet of paper at the bottom of the display with a list of who finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. It is what it is.
I started entering the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest again 2 years ago because I was worried that the amount of entries had gotten really small. the last couple of years the numbers had ballooned. This year, the amount of entries atrophied again.
Hopefully it bounces back again next year.
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We are so close to the end of the 2016 backlog that you can probably feel it. After this post, there is only one photo shoot left to publish.
But before we get to that, we need to finish up with the pictures of Austin and Porter at a McHose Park playground.
Next Sunday, when hit the 2016 backlog, we look at a commercial photo shoot I did for a Minnesota leather company.