Category Archives: Calendar

Animals, Calendar, Flowers, Macro, Photoshop

2006

December 16, 2015 Christopher D. Bennett 5 Comments

Looking back at my records, as near as I can tell, the first year I made a calendar for was 2001. That means this years calendar is the sixteenth calendar I have produced.

I don’t have templates or know what was on the calendar before 2005.

However, I thought it would be a fun little exercise to look back at the calendars from the last 10 years. Starting with the 2006 Calendar:

January

January Alternate

February

March

March Alternate

April

April Alternate

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Remember, there is still time to order your 2016 PHOTOGRAPHY 139 CALENDAR. I know a guy that knows a guy that can hook you up.

Animals, Calendar, Flowers, Macro, Photoshop, Russell

2016

December 15, 2015 Christopher D. Bennett

WARNING!

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A TRANSMISSION FROM PHOTOGRAPHY 139’S SHAMELESS COMMERCE DIVISION…

I did get a late jump on the calendars this year, but there is and will be a PHOTOGRAPHY 139 2016 CALENDAR for sale. I haven’t laid my hands on them yet, but the stash will arrive on Friday and be available for weekend delivery.

All the pre-orders will be fulfilled this weekend.

This year’s price is… $11.00… cheap.

The best way to order your calendar is to contact me via email bennett@photography139.com.

Here is a look at this year’s images.

Cover

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January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

There were requests this year that the calendar to include a wider swath of my work besides just photos. Apparently, more than just Russell hate my flower photography. I took this under consideration, but it just didn’t work out this year. However, the 2017 Calendar will consist of more than just flower pictures.

Calendar, Flowers, Macro

2015 Photography 139 Flower Calendar

December 19, 2014 Christopher D. Bennett

Just a reminder that today is the last day (most likely) to order a Photography 139 Flower Calendar for 2015.

Here are the pictures that are featured in the calendar:

The Cover

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

This year the calendars are $10.00 American!

There are many ways to order:

You can send an email to bennett@photography139.com!

You can follow this link and fill out the form:

PRODUCTS!

You can direct message me on Twitter or Facebook or even hit up me on my phone if you are one of the lucky souls to have those sacred seven digits (10 counting area code).

Thanks for your support!

365 Day Project, Alexis, Black & White, Brandon, Calendar, Elainie, Holidays, Jason, Logan, Music, Photoshop, Self-Portrait, Still Life, Teresa, Work

365 Day Photo Challenge: 176-182

December 30, 2013 Christopher D. Bennett

Almost halfway done!

Day 176: Tradition

Day 177: Wrapped

Day 178: Best Bit of Your Day

Day 179: Where You Slept – Or where I wish I could…

Day 180: What You’re Doing Now

Day 181: Something Awesome

Day 182: Reflect: Best Bit of 2013

The next 7 themes:

Day 183: You
Day 184: Celebrate
Day 185: Lunch
Day 186: Begins with G
Day 187: My Town
Day 188: Words to Live By
Day 189: Found

The themes for January:

1. Lunch
2. Begins with G
3. My Town
4. Words to Live By
5. Found
6. Happens Everyday
7. Upside Down
8. Lucky Number
9. Natural
10. Manmade
11. Looking Down
12. Colorful
13. Makes Me Smile
14. 3 Things
15. Black & White
16. Sun
17. Tiny
18. Happy Place
19. Breakfast
20. To Do List
21. Blue
22. Nice!
23. Bedtime
24. Your Space
25. A Taste of Winter
26. Fun Stuff!
27. Something I Brought
28. Dinner
29. Window
30. Best Invention Ever
31. Polka Dot

Calendar, Flowers

2014 Photography 139 Calendar on Sale!

December 11, 2013 Christopher D. Bennett

It is time to rejoice! The 2014 Photography 139 Flower Calendar is now on sale!

The price: $10.70, including sales tax.

Want a sneak peek?

Front Cover

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

There are several ways you can order your high quality 2014 Photography 139 Flower Calendar.

1. You can contact me in person. Not easy to do, but it does happen.
2. You can contact me via phone or text.
3. You can place your order via email: bennett@photography139.com
4. You can visit the Photography 139 Products Page. Clicking on the following link: Photography 139
Products

What kind of payments do I accept? These(in no particular order):

1. Cash
2. Checks
3. Major Credit Cards
4. Iowa State Basketball Tickets

Of course, it goes without saying, these make great Christmas presents!

365 Day Project, Black & White, Calendar, Naima, Photoshop, Still Life

365 Day Photo Challenge: 155-161

December 9, 2013 Christopher D. Bennett

Closing in on the halfway point in this project:

Day 155: Where I Stood

Day 156: Silver

Day 157: Tiny

Day 158: In the Cupboard

Day 159: Shadow

Day 160: 6 O’Clock

Day 161: Where I Shop

I’ll be happy when the days start getting longer again and I have more light to play with.

The next 7 themes:

Day 162: This is the Weather Today
Day 163: R is For…
Day 164: Green
Day 165: Joy Is…
Day 166: Composition
Day 167: Drink
Day 168: Lights

All themes come from the Fat Mum Slim website.

Animals, Black & White, Calendar, Flowers, Iowa State, Macro, Night, Personal Photo Project, Photoshop, Railroad, Ruins

Personal Photo Project of the Week #151

January 4, 2013 Christopher D. Bennett

In addition to the flower calendar that was for sale last year, I made a small run of the traditional Merry Christmas calendars. The remainder of the Merry Christmas Calendars will be distributed on the morrow, so I don’t think their is any harm in sharing those images at this time.

Front Cover

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I went down a completely different road with the production of this calendar. It was freeing and difficult at the same time, but I am very pleased with the results.

Andree, Becky, Calendar, Dad, Dawn, Derrick, Evie, Faust, Jeff Kewer, Jen, Linda, Monica, Personal Photo Project, Postcard, Robert, Russell, Sara, Shawn Lockner, Slice of Life

Personal Photo Project of the Week #144

November 16, 2012 Christopher D. Bennett

This week’s Personal Photo Project is a blatant attempt at commerce. Good old fashioned in-your-face-capitalism.

I’ve been talking to Barb Henning of Everlastings about selling high quality Photography 139 products in her store for several years now, but I have always been unable to pull the trigger. However, I’ve turned over a new leaf and have decided to invest some money in “product” and we’ll see where that gets me.

Starting tomorrow (at least I’m 98% sure) a person can go to Everlastings Flowers & Gifts in beautiful downtown Ogden, Iowa and purchase a couple different products from Photography 139.

The first line of products:

Postcards!

This is not a completely original idea. This idea is both stolen from and an homage to my Dad’s line of Slice of Life postcards. Which incidentally will be incorporated into this line of postcards as well. The picture of the #1385 is my Dad’s picture.

The current pricing structure is thus:

1 Postcard = $.75
3 Postcards = $2.00
5 Postcards = $3.00

Series #1 of the Photography 139 line of postcards consists of 5 different images. My hope is that every 3-4 months, I will release a new series and 5 different postcards. The subject matter will mostly consist of flowers or local interest. Look for Series #2 to be released around February or March.

Thanks to all my Postcard Beta Testers:

Jen, Derrick, and Evie Gorshe
Sara and Shawn
Russell Kennerly
Andree Jauhari
Aunt Linda
Becky Perkovich
Dawn Krause
The Fausts
The Kewers
Robert Henning

The second line of products:

Calendars!

The second product line is a calendar consisting of high quality Photography 139 flower images. The first run of these is extremely limited, so the price structure is a little higher than I would like, but there is a chance that a second run of calendars will be printed and the price might go down slightly. No promises though.

Calendar Price Structure:

1 Calendar = $15.00

But what about the future? I’m also looking into releasing a line of holiday cards. Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and Mother’s Day. It is somewhat dependent on how the first two lines of high quality products fare in the marketplace. I would consider it highly doubtful that there will be Christmas cards available for this Christmas, but stranger things have happened.

To repeat, these high quality products will be available at Everlasting Flowers & Gifts starting tomorrow.

Everlastings Info:

223 W. Walnut St.
Ogden, IA 50212
Store Hours: M-F 9:30 am to 5 pm; Sat. 9:30 am to noon
Website: http://www.everlastingsbybarb.com/
All major credit cards accepted

These products may come to other venues in the future, but Barb definitely gets to be the launching point for this commercial endeavor.

Yes, you can buy products straight from me, but I don’t accept credit cards at this time. If you need something shipped to you, there would be a shipping and handling fee.

You can find out that info by writing me directly at: bennett@photography139.com

Next week’s Personal Photo Project will either involve trains or mums. We’ll see.

9 Emotions Project, Animals, Black & White, Calendar, Cousin Amy, Derrick, Flowers, Formal Portrait, Jay, Jen, Jesse, Jill, Macro, Nader, Personal Photo Project, Sara, Shannon, Travel, Vest, Willy

Personal Photo Project of the Week #99

January 6, 2012 Christopher D. Bennett

I only had time last year to make a handful of calendars. If you didn’t get a calendar this year, I am sorry. I only had one left and I gave it to Nader because he actually called and asked for one. If somebody begged I suppose I could print another one off, but who would want a calendar that is almost 25% useless?

Here are the images from this years Photography 139 Calendar:

Front Cover

January

February

March

April

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

As usual, Mike Vest helped finish up the calendars with his hole punching and binding skills. Thanks Mike!

Alexis, Blogging, Brandon, Calendar, Carla, Elainie, History, Jason, Johnathan, Logan, Mom, Steph, Teresa, Willy

The Archives: Edition Two

February 1, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/2005 Calendar

I’m pretty sure these are the files from the 2nd year of the calendar, although it is possible that it was the 3rd or 1st year of the calendar. My records on such things are spotty at best.

In the early days of the calendar I made “individualized” calendars, but I only made 3 calendars back then, so it was somewhat easy to do. That is why there are more than 12 images in this folder.

These pictures would have been taken in 2004.

Until “Outburst of the Soul” this was the most popular picture I ever made. To this date, I believe it is the only picture I’ve ever taken that inspired a musical composition.

This is the first digital picture I ever took.

This picture was taken in Tulum near Cozumel. It was also fairly popular in its day.

This picture was taken between Upper Cullen Lake and Middle Cullen Lake in Minnesota.

This was the 1st (kind of feels like the last) picture I had accepted to the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. Apparently I’ve regressed as a photographer since this photo, the peak of my photography “career”.

I once had this terrible idea called the Beaver Machete Project. I’ll probably have to explain this later, but I’m going to buy myself a week or so to think of a good excuse for why I thought this was a good idea.

Next week’s look at the archives will be: backup/Old My Pictures/Animals

A cursory glance of this folder reveals very few pictures of animals.

Small bookkeeping note, with this Journal Entry, Teresa becomes the 6th Person to be featured, mentioned, or alluded to in 100 entries. I’m sure she’ll put that on her resume.