Here is another photo from the work afternoon I spent with a group of people turning the old grain elevator in west Ames into an “art place”.
This was painted onto a window on the third or fourth floor.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: Unrecorded
APERTURE: Unrecorded
EXPOSURE: 1/80
DATE: 04/13/2016 13:38
LATITUDE: 42.03700°
LONGITUDE: -93.68144
ASSISTANT: Micky Augustin
There were only a couple of PORTRAIT images that I took, but didn’t use for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here they are:
Here is Christopher D. Bennett Quiz question:
QUESTION 2
I use Sony cameras because they bought out what was the Bennett family’s unofficial official camera brand, what was that brand?
ANSWER: Minolta
BONUS
What is the name of song and the artist that recorded it, about a snake that steals people’s root beer that was on my favorite 8 track that we used to listen to in the Slice of Life Dark Room?
ANSWER: Sneaky Snake & Tom T. Hall.
GLASS did not end up being an extremely popular theme. That being said, there are some solid submissions here. Let’s have a look at the submissions for GLASS.
Mike Vest
Angie DeWaard
Sarah Karber
Christopher D. Bennett
Carla Stensland
Amy Hahn
But that is the past. Let’s look to the future. After all, the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives! Future events such as these will effect us in the future!
I don’t think LETTERS AND/OR NUMBERS requires much of an explanation. You are staring at letters right now. However, there are many forms of letters and numbers, so as always… define the theme as you see fit.
It is a good time to review the rules of the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
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.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
I am pleased to announce that in the last week, we have added 4 new email subscribers to the Photography 139 Empire. Jodie Bennett, Corinna (Logan’s lady friend that I never attained a last name for), Jeff Daniel, and Stephanie Kim all showed off their keen intellect and sophistication for signing up for an email subscription to this here blog. I’d normally go into a lengthy description of each person, but since this entry is already getting off the presses over 7 hours late, I’ll just remind you that if you run into these fine folks on the streets of Brooklyn or wherever, feel free to give them the knowing glance and teach them the super secret Photography 139 handshake.
That is all I got, so if the Lord is willing and the creek don’t rise we’ll see you here again next Monday.
Another solid week of submissions. Here are the submissions for PORTRAIT:
Bill Wentworth 1
Bill Wentworth 2
Angie DeWaard 1
Angie DeWaard 2
Sarah Karber
Christopher D. Bennett
Mike Vest
Micky Augustin
Carla Stensland 1
Carla Stensland 2
Solid submissions across the board! But why live in the past. Let’s look to the future. After all, that is where we will live the balance of our lives.
This week’s theme…
Those of you with a little bit of elephant in you may be a little like: “Didn’t we just do GLASS?” However, those of you that are more learned will know that more than just windows are made of GLASS. Things like glasses are made of GLASS. The kind you drink out of and the kind you put on your face. (At least they used to be.) Bottles. Also made of glass. (At least they used to be.) Lenses. Made of glass. (At least they used to be.) Lots of wonderful art is made out of GLASS. So go out and explore the wonderful world of GLASS.
HOUSEKEEPING
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
I might have processed this image to within an inch of its life. However, it turned out pretty much exactly as I wanted it so. Everybody wins!
It feels like I should show you what the original image looked like. But I’m not going to.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 22mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 04/03/2016 – 10:46
LATITUDE: 38.39540°
LONGITUDE: -96.53952°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nate Miller
The subject of this here entry is what I’m guessing most people will think or even feel when they look at the photo that makes up the entirety of this here entry. Possible exception, Anders Runestad.
At least I enjoy it. Possibly Anders as well.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 04/23/16 – 07:35
NO GPS DATA RECORDED
NO PHOTO ASSISTANT
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 next two folders are pretty small so I combined them.
03-04-07 & 03-07-07
Man. I’m not aging well.
Back to the March 2007 folders next Saturday.
Here is a collection of pictures that didn’t make the cut for RUINS in the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
One of the reasons these photos ended up on the loser pile is because I had already used an abandoned train bridge (on the same abandoned right-of-way) in my WATER picture. While it is a different bridge, I didn’t want to draw water from too similar of a well.
Going to be a quick write up today, but excited that there were a plethora of submissions this week. Including a submission from first time submitter Jodie Bennett. Which is pretty sweet!
Here are the submissions for COUNTRY:
Bill Wentworth
Jodie Bennett
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Shannon Bardole
Christopher D. Bennett
Angie DeWaard 1
Angie DeWaard 2
Mike Vest
Micky Augustin
A fine selection of submissions!
But what is the theme for this week?
WINDOWS is not as easily accessible of a theme as COUNTRY, but everybody has access to WINDOWS. Of course there are many ways to interpret WINDOWS. Some would say that the eyes are the WINDOWS to the soul. If you are serious about running your business, WINDOWS is the OS for you. Of course, there are WINDOW(S) displays for WINDOW(S) shopping. Even cars have WINDOWS. Translate the theme however you see fit.
No HOUSEKEEPING today. I’ll try to do better next week.
