Category Archives: Macro

Flowers, Jay, Jesse, Macro, Nature, Photoshop

Skin to Win

June 21, 2009 Christopher D. Bennett

A lifetime ago I knew this girl that was entering a wet t-shirt contest. She was explaining to Jesse, Jay and I her strategy for winning this contest.

We tried our best to explain to her that there really is only one strategy for winning a wet t-shirt contest.

That strategy, of course, is “Skin to Win!”

She didn’t believe us.

While you are probably wondering why I am telling you the story of somebody that would sell their dignity so cheaply, the answer is simple. On a recent wet morning, I wandered out of my house and took a few pictures of some wet plants.

I hope you find them to be as sexy as I do.

If you are wondering, this girl’s strategy was about teasing. She did in fact lose to a girl that knew the cardinal rule of wet t-shirt contests.

Calendar, Flowers, Macro

November

January 5, 2009 Christopher D. Bennett

November’s image.

I also added about 20 pictures to the Flora Album:

Flora

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I should point out that because my galleries were victimized by spam, if you decide to register as a user because:

A. You want to comment on an image.
B. You want to rate an image.
C. You want to favorite an image.
D. You like me as a human being.

I do have to approve all new registrations to keep the spammers at bay. Don’t be disheartened, I’m pretty quick at approving real people for registration.

You might also notice that you are familiar with most of the images added to the Flora Album. I have finally gotten some of the classics up for your perusal. Including My Giverny and Happiness Shared #01.

Calendar, Flowers, Macro

October

January 2, 2009 Christopher D. Bennett

October’s picture.

Some mums.

Flowers, Macro

J.M. Barrie

November 19, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett

Animals, Art, Candid Portrait, Flowers, Jay, Macro, Mom, Road Trip, Still Life, Teresa

Kalona (Part 2)

October 15, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett

More pictures from Kalona.

Have I mentioned how much I love cheese curds lately?

Candid Portrait, Flowers, Jay, Macro, Mom, Road Trip, Still Life, Teresa

Kalona (Part 1)

October 14, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett

Some pictures from the trip to Kalona.

The beginning of the trip was a little bit sad. It turns out that one of my favorite restaurants, The Kalona Cupboard, has went out of business. We tried out The Parlor Cafe, but it was not anywhere near as good as The Kalona Cupboard. In fact, they microwaved everything. I mean everything.

If you don’t know, I have a pretty big prejudice against food made in the microwave.

On top of that, the “chef” (who both took your order, microwaved it and put it on your plate) asked me if I was an Iowa State fan.

“Yes.”

“How much did you guys lose by last week?”

Iowa fans. God love them, if there is any room left for how much they already love themselves.

After the disappointment of the Cupboard closing and the poor food from the Microwave Cafe, we at least found Yotty’s Ice Cream Shop. It was excellent.

Animals, Becky, Candid Portrait, Commercial, Flowers, Macro, Shannon

Volt-face

October 4, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett

Last Sunday I had some unexpected free time when I got fired from a friend’s photo project.

That is right I got:

A career change opportunity
Discharged
The Pink Slip
Dehired
Canned
Downsized
Let Go
Outsourced
Made Redundant
Skill-mix Adjustment
Released
Walking Papers
Shown the Door
The Ax
Terminated
Sacked

On the positive side, this freed up my Sunday afternoon.

I made the use of my time by taking some flower pictures.

I also was able to witness some Ames Party Bus painting. I have more pictures of this, but even posting the one picture that I’m posting is kind of violating an agreement I made.

I made use of my unexpected freed up future.

Alexis, Black & White, Contests, Flowers, Formal Portrait, Macro

Spurned

August 30, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Two more pictures that were not selected.

It took me some time to actually find one of these old merry-go-rounds. I searched high and low and only found one in Boone. Perhaps there is another one somewhere, but the only one I could find was at the Trinity playground.

The point of this picture was to convey movement by making the background a motion blur, but keeping the foreground in focus.

I don’t really have much to say about this picture. I can’t even remember when or where I took it. It is a black and white flower picture.

Animals, Flowers, Macro, State Fair

State Fair Flowers

August 19, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett

I love the gardens at the State Fair.

Pretty, but not quite as tasty as some shaved ice.

Alexis, Art, Baseball/Softball, Carla, Elainie, Flowers, Jason, Macro, Road Trip

Albia, Iowa

July 21, 2008 Christopher D. Bennett

I drove to Albia on Sunday to watch Elainie play softball in the Little League State Tournament. I was honestly expecting to only watch one game because they were playing Grand View. I can never recall a Boone team beating a Grand View team. But it happened. Boone beat Grand View 9-6. They played Monroe County in the title game and fell 7-1.

Here are some pictures from the day.

Not going to make a play on Elainie’s monster smash!

Great Raspberry Shakes!

There is one other thing. It is traditional to paint your vehicle to support your kid’s team when they go to tournaments. I understand that. However, there needs to be some common sense exercised.

For example. Say you have a daughter. Say that daughter is a pitcher. Say that daughter strikes people out. A reasonable thing to do would be to paint a couple “K”s on your van because the “K” is the symbol for strikeout in score keeping.

Now think about it. Just off the top of your head, what amount of “K”s would you not want to paint on your van.

Has it come to you yet?

Figured it out yet?

Have that answer yet?

Yeah, that seems like a bad idea to me. Even if there are 3 outs in an inning.

For the record, this van was from Wisconsin and not Boone.