Category Archives: Macro

Andree, Animals, Baier, Birthdays, Flowers, Jesse, Macro, Naima, Russell

It Just Blooms

July 26, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

I need to start today by wishing Russell a happy birthday. Happy birthday Russell!

I hope ripped it up on your birthday as much as you desired to rip it up!

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Today’s collection is a bunch of pictures I took tooling around my back yard back in May.

The title of today’s blog post comes from a quote:

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
– Zen Shin

Russell hates my flower pictures. Maybe if he engaged in some Zen Shin Meditation, he would be so angry and learn to love the simple beauty of flowers.

Flowers, Macro, Naima

Aqua

July 23, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Today is a collection of pictures I took back in the good old days, when it used to rain in Boone. Back before the drought. Or I sprayed these things down with a water bottle.

That is a lot of wet flowers.

Flowers, Macro

Daisies for Days!

July 21, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

Here is a collection of daisy pictures I took back in May. A couple of different types of daisies here. African Daisies and Gerber Daisies.

With working from home and rarely going more than a mile from my house, I have taken so many flower pictures this year. So many.

Alexis, Animals, Birthdays, Brandon, Elainie, Jason, Johnathan, Kanoa, Kupono, Logan, Macro, Mom, Sabas, Teresa

Bodega Bay

July 17, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

I need to start today by wishing Alexis a happy birthday. Happy birthday Alexis!

I hope your birthday is as amazing as you wanted it to be!

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I thought I would give you a break from flowers for a day and shows some pictures of some baby robins from my front yard. A pair of robins built a nest in my bush in my front yard for the second time this year. Here are some pictures:

I recently added a birdhouse and a second bird feeder to my property. Well it is really a first bird feeder, because I keep the first bird feeder for the wasp nest that I nurture.

Actually the second bird feeder was a gift from my Mom and the birdhouse was a gift from Kio. The second bird feeder has proved to be popular thus far.

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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is NIGHT.

NIGHT

A NIGHT picture is simply any picture taken at NIGHT.

Happy photo harvesting!

Flowers, Macro, WPC - Alternate

Mashup

July 16, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

This is a collection of some small collectionS of pictures I took back in May. Oh, May. Such a simple time.

Some of those pictures were alternates for the RULE OF THIRDS theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.

Baseball/Softball, Flowers, Macro

Grotty

July 15, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

A few weeks back I took some super macro photos. Some of a baseball. Some of an allium. Some of a dandelion.

Have a peek:

So many flower pictures taken this year. So many!

Flowers, Macro, Naima

Dog and Daisy

July 14, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

This is just a cleanup of some photos I took of Naima and of a daisy that lives in the flower box on my garage. Took these on my birthday.

These pictures were before Naima had surgery, as you can tell, she doesn’t look weird. Her fur is slowly growing back, but I think it won’t be until the fall where her coat is even again.

Andy, Animals, Becky, Carla, Cathie, Elizabeth, Flowers, Kim, Macro, Michelle, Micky, Tamara, WPC - Submissions

WPC – WEEK 252 – FACELESS PORTRAIT

July 13, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

41 straight weeks of double digit submissions! WooHoo! Once again, I didn’t even have to send out reminder message this morning!

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:

Micky Augustin

Michelle Haupt

Tamara Peterson

Becky Parmelee

Carla Stensland

Christopher D. Bennett

Andy Sharp

Elizabeth Nordeen

Kim Barker

Jason Foley

Cathie Raley

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:

NIGHT

NIGHT! What a great theme! But what is a NIGHT photo? It is literally any photo taken at NIGHT. I know this one might be challenging for some people, but it doesn’t have to be taken outside. Doesn’t have to be a picture of a NIGHT sky. It just has to be taken at NIGHT. Easy!

Although, I do have to confess that this is one of the themes that I worry will snap the double digit streak. I hope you guys blow my doubts out of the water.

I look forward to seeing your interpretations.

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HOUSEKEEPING

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.

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 dark Monday!

Black & White, Candid Portrait, Flowers, FNSC, Formal Portrait, Jay, Macro, Nature, Willy

2010-01-30

July 11, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 2010-01-30 are from both THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. The flower pictures were taken for the theme PLANTS. THE PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT involves a broken mirror and Willy.

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory: