Wasn’t sure what I would post today. Then Russell reminded me that it was World Photo Day. So I decided to post a flower photo, since Russell LOVES flower pictures:
Hopefully, you enjoyed World Photo Day.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 500
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/16/2016
LATITUDE: 41.59485°
LONGITUDE: -93.55147°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Team Baby Got Rack
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: Some YouTube video on how the earth is really flat.
Yesterday, Baby Got Rack competed at the State Fair barbecue contest. After we got the pork and the chicken on the smoker, we had a couple of hours to kill. We smoke the chicken and pork for close to two hours and then we allow the meat to rest another hour.
During this time, we mostly conversate, dance, and wait anxiously for root beer stands to open. While Scottie D. and Marcus held down the fedora fort, I used a small amount of this time to pay my respects to the spot on the fairgrounds that used to hold Jennie’s Grinders. Then I went to visit probably my favorite part of the fairgrounds, Discovery Gardens.
While I was there, I took this picture:
As always, when I take a bee picture. I ask you all to take a moment to remember the horrible bee attack that decimated Houston in the 1970s. Never forget!
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO:640
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE:1/160
DATE: 08-16-2016
LATITUDE: 41.59489°
LONGITUDE: -93.55139°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Team Baby Got Rack
EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Retreat” by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Also, I’d be a failure if I didn’t recognize the anniversary of the birth of long time Photography 139 supporter and long time sister Teresa Kahler!
It has been too long since I posted a picture from the Iowa Arboretum.
Let me remedy that real quick:
I need to get out there for a visit again, sometime soon.
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 320
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4.5
EXPOSURE: 1/80
DATE: 07/03/2016 – 19:56
LATITUDE: 41.93876°
LONGITUDE: -93.86104°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Solitude
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: A replay of Iowa State’s whacking of UNI in football from last season.
There wasn’t much in the 04-29-07 folder. A couple photos of one of my Mom’s tulips.
The next folder contains plenty of grainy photos of Alexis and swans.
I’m starting to work on my endgame for Postcard Series #2. I’d like to do this once a week where I get out and shoot some part of Boone County for the use in the endgame. Most recently I spent a little bit of time in Ledges. These are the results:
A few of these, I was just dinking around with settings, but you’ll see, when the endgame comes around.
A mixture of wildlife and tulips in the folder 04-28-07:
The folder for next Saturday doesn’t have much in it. Maybe a couple of tulip photos. We’ll see.
Here are a collection of pathetic losers that didn’t make the snuff for my submission for the FLOWER theme of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
I’m glad we had this time together to bully and mock these photos.
There was a tremendous reaction to FLOWER. Lots of participation! How exciting!
The submissions for FLOWER:
Angie DeWaard 2
Carla Stensland 1
Carla Stensland 2
Carla Stensland 3
Carla Stensland 4
Carla Stensland 5
Shannon Bardole
Kim Barker 1
Kim Barker 2
Mike Vest 1
Mike Vest 2
Christopher D. Bennett
Becky Perkovich
Stephanie Kim
Another solid week of submissions!
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:
What is ART? I can’t define it but I know it when I see it.
Get out there and get a picture of your favorite sculpture or mural or stained glass window. Take a picture of somebody creating art. Somebody doing art. Something that is used to make art. Make you are arrogant enough to think any time you click the shutter release you make ART. I’m not here to judge. As always, though define the theme any way that you want. Maybe you know a guy named Art, I wish I did.
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. 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
Nothing new to report. Nobody new has displayed their class, taste, and sophistication by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try to do better next week.
That’s all I got, 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 artistic Monday.
Yep. Another lily. I’ve got a ton of them!
That just counts the lily pictures from my own yard.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 07/15/16 – 18:43
LATITUDE: 42.05527°
LONGITUDE: -93.87072°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Naima
EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Highway 69” by UnHingd
You might not know this about me, but I enjoy spending time in ditches looking for something to photograph.
I recently found this flower in a ditch.
It is actually hard for me to drive in the country this time of year because the ditches are so beautiful with green grass, yellow, orange, and purple flowers.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SON Y SLT-A65V
ISO: 500
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/100
DATE: 07/03/2016 – 20:32
LATITUDE: 41.93793°
LONGITUDE: -93.85909°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: The sound of silence.
EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Welcome to America” by Lecrae
