Time to share the second collection of auxiliary images from my road trip to Washington County to harvest their town signs. A few of these are still in Riverside. Which I consider to be a must visit for anybody that likes Star Trek.
Ainsworth
Crawfordsville
Olds
Wayland
Coppock
Still one more collection of images to share from this road trip!
Back in October I went on a Junk Jaunt with Carla and Teresa. I didn’t buy much, a few stickers here and there, but I did have a great time and saw many interesting things.
Here are some pictures from the day:
Hopefully we will be able to go on one of these again next year!
This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is SILENCE:
SILENCE! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
But what exactly is a SILENCE image? I mean you can make the case that all pictures are in SILENCE, but for this theme I urge you to really search out a place of SILENCE and capture your image there, while not breaking the SILENCE.
Happy photo harvesting!
RED. A great color. I don’t know a person who doesn’t look great in cardinal. However, was RED a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 9, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
1-Nathanial Brown – 1 week
2-Mary Green – 1 week (2)
3-Monica Jennings – 1 week
4-Sara Lockner – 1 week
5-Willy McAlpine – 1 week
6-Mike Vest – 2 weeks
7-Tamara Peterson – 11 weeks
8-Brandon Kahler – 22 weeks
9-Linda Bennett – 25 weeks (2)
10-Sarah Toot – 26 weeks (4)
11-Angie DeWaard – 30 weeks
12-Dawn Krause – 34 weeks
13-Kim Barker – 40 weeks
14-Joe Duff – 41 weeks
15-Logan Kahler – 43 weeks (3)
16-Teresa Kahler – 52 weeks (2)
17-Carla Stensland – 52 weeks
18-Micky Augustin – 54 weeks
19-Andy Sharp – 55 weeks
20-Bill Wentworth – 56 weeks
21-Cathie Morton – 60 weeks
22-Elizabeth Nordeen – 61 weeks
23-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 63 weeks
24-Kio Dettman – 64 weeks
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 53 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 62 weeks
Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 55 weeks
Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 56 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Nebraska) – 57 weeks
Joe Duff (Texas) – 42 weeks
Kio Dettman (Iowa) – 65 weeks
Kio Dettman (Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 26 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 44 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Mary Green (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 64 weeks
Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 27 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 12 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Missouri) – 2 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Missouri)
Nathanial Brown (Missouri)
Christopher D. Bennett (Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 53 weeks
Carla Stensland (Iowa)
Cathie Morton (Florida) – 61 weeks
Cathie Morton (Florida)
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 23 weeks
Sara Lockner (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Arkansas) – 1 week
Sabas Hernandez (Iowa) – 1 week
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 35 weeks
Dawn Krause (Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Iowa)
Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 1 week
Monica Jennings (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 1 week
Suzie Brannen (Iowa)
Kim Barker (Iowa) – 41 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Iowa) – 1 week
Mike Vest (Iowa) – 3 weeks
We had submissions taken in:
+ Arkansas
+ Florida
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Nebraska
+ Missouri
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas
Florida and Missouri are new additions to the map, Making this year’s list:
+ Arkansas
+ Florida
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Nebraska
+ Nevada
+ Missouri
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas
That is 9 states. We’ve covered almost 20% of the states!
Once again, I did not help. I took my picture in my living room. But Nathanial and Cathie filled in a couple more states for us!
It wasn’t all good news though. Willy’s couldn’t extend his streak to 2 weeks.
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:
SILENCE! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
But what exactly is a SILENCE image? I mean you can make the case that all pictures are in SILENCE, but for this theme I urge you to really search out a place of SILENCE and capture your image there, while not breaking the SILENCE.
While considering a place of SILENCE for you to photograph, meditate on the following quote and I have no doubt you will capture a great SILENCE image:
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
-Mother Teresa
I look forward to seeing your interpretation.
The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge. There is a limit of 3 submissions per participant. To be considered the photographer, you have to be the one that takes the picture. Don’t be stealing the work of other artists. You can submit pictures for other photographers that took pictures with your camera or phone, but give credit where credit is due.
You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.
That is it. Thems the rules!
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of SILENCE in this place that’s anything but next Monday.
I need to start today by wishing my sister Teresa’s best friend and also a good friend of all of our family, Sheri a happy birthday! Happy birthday Sheri!
That is a picture of Sheri graduating high school taken by my Dad.
I hope your birthday is/was as awesome as you wanted it to be!
Time to share the last collection of images I took while on a road trip with Teresa to harvest the town signs of Allamakee County.
Harper’s Ferry
Yellow River State Forest
Waterville
The iconic Lansing Mississippi River Bridge can be seen in the movie THE STRAIGHT STORY. It is the bridge Alvin Straight crosses to get to Wisconsin to visit his brother.
The next county of auxiliary images we will visit is Washington County.
Time for the third collection of auxiliary images I took on my road trip with Teresa to harvest the town signs of Allamakee County.
New Albin
I reckon that the bridge in Lansing over the Mississippi River is one of the most photographed bridges in Iowa. At least for its fairly remote location. Something I learned on this trip is that there are surprisingly few bridge that cross the Mississippi River in Iowa.
I’ve seen that bridge in Lansing photographed several times. It is an iconic bridge in a beautiful setting. However, on this trip a Lansing local informed us that it was going to be replaced in the next couple of years. If you want to see it, don’t dawdle.
There is one more collection of images from this trip left to share.
Taking another Sunday to clean up some, but not all of the March images that I haven’t shared in the past. This will be a fairly short post, but there are more March images to clean up.
Some of these were alternate images taken for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. For the themes HOBBIES and GOVERNMENT.
Someday I’m going to get back to Formal Portrait Sundays. I swear this is true.
Full intellectual honest, I hate flippie floppies and don’t own a pair. The worst “shoes” ever designed by, I don’t know, the devil! I could write for hours about how they are terrible. They are so terrible, I don’t even like to see other people wearing them.
However, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the second half of the photo collection of me on a boat. Everybody look at me, cause I’m on a boat!
If you’re on the shore, then you’re sure not me, oh!
The next time we visit a county to look at auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT, we will visit Allamakee County.
Happy Friday the 13th to those who celebrate! I celebrate by going to Jimmy’s for their free sandwich Friday the 13th special. I’ll see you there.
This is a good time to share more pictures from my camping trip with Carla and Jason. I actually had to cut the camping trip shorter than I wanted because I had to drive from Spirit Lake to Johnston for a little kid’s birthday party. So I didn’t get to stay through until Sunday. Hopefully I get a chance to go camping with Carla and Jason again this year and won’t have to leave early.
We still had a pretty cool day with the time I was there. We visited the site of the Spirit Lake “Massacre” and then we tooled around I think 3 of the Great Lakes of Iowa. On a boat!
Still more pictures from this trip to share!
This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is REFLECTION:
REFLECTION! What a great theme to kick of Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what in tarnation is a REFLECTION picture. It is simply enough a picture where a major compositional element of the picture is a REFLECTION. Mirrors obviously make great REFLECTIONs. But there are other things that REFLECT(ION) as well. For example water. I nicely waxed floor. Eyes. The list just goes on and on. Also, don’t forget that there is more than one definition of REFLECTION.
Happy photo harvesting!
Today is Lowell’s birthday… so… happy birthday Lowell!
Ironic that this picture was taken on my birthday? Either way, I hope your birthday has adequate amounts of happiness!
I count this trip a bit as auxiliary images for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. In fact I went camping with Carla and Jason at the Marble Beach State Recreation Area. While I was there I harvested one town sign. It was a town sign that I had harvested before, but I wanted to get a picture of it at night. So I revisited the town sign of Terril, Iowa.
The swinging bridge is located in Estherville. Made a special trip just to walk across it. It is hard to put into words how incredibly dark it was on that bridge on that night. The pictures make it look much brighter than it actually was. In fact, crossing a swinging bridge, suspended over a swift Des Moines River, in pitch black conditions was a bit of a rush.
I still have more pictures from this camping trip to share.
It is time to begin the 10th year of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! I’m pumped! Are you pumped? Of course you are pumped? The theme is clearly called TRAINS, PLANES, & AUTOMOBILES, but I had a few people enter under a completely different theme PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES. I decided to accept their submissions because I am super magnanimous!
But the real question is, was TRAINS, PLANES, & AUTOMOBILES a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 2, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
1-Mary Green – 1 week (2)
2-Jesse Howard – 1 week
3-Monica Jennings – 1 week
4-Sarah Karber – 1 week
5-Sara Lockner – 1 week
6-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks
7-Becky Parmelee – 3 weeks
8-Willy McAlpine – 7 weeks
9-Tamara Peterson – 9 weeks
10-Brandon Kahler – 20 weeks
11-Linda Bennett – 23 weeks (3)
12-Sarah Toot – 24 weeks
13-Angie DeWaard – 28 weeks (2)
14-Dawn Krause – 32 weeks
15-Kim Barker – 38 weeks
16-Joe Duff – 39 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 41 weeks
18-Teresa Kahler – 50 weeks (2)
19-Carla Stensland – 50 weeks (2)
20-Michelle Haupt – 51 weeks
21-Micky Augustin – 52 weeks
22-Andy Sharp – 53 weeks
23-Bill Wentworth – 54 weeks
24-Cathie Morton – 58 weeks
25-Elizabeth Nordeen – 59 weeks
26-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 61 weeks
27-Kio Dettman – 63 weeks (3)
28-Christopher D. Bennett – 485 weeks
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 51 weeks
Carla Stensland (Iowa)
Kim Barker (Iowa) – 39 weeks
Joe Duff (Texas) – 40 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 24 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Iowa)
Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 25 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 10 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 62 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 29 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa)
Angie DeWaard (Iowa)
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 21 weeks
Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 53 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 60 weeks
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 33 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 51 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Arkansas) – 4 weeks
Kio Dettman (Iowa) – 64 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 1 week
Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 54 weeks
Andy Sharp (Iowa)
Sabas Hernandez (Iowa) – 4 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 42 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Michelle Haupt (Iowa) – 52 weeks
Cathie Morton (Iowa) – 59 weeks
Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mike Vest (Iowa) – 1 week
25 participants! A solid but not spectacular start to the new year!
We had submissions from:
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Arkansas
+ Texas
+ Pennsylvania
+ Nebraska
Pictures taken in 6 different states isn’t bad.
My submission for this week was taken about 15 miles from my front door.
Year 9 we finished with submissions taken in the following states:
+ California
+ Nevada
+ Arizona
+ Colorado
+ Texas
+ Kansas
+ Nebraska
+ South Dakota
+ Minnesota
+ Iowa
+ Missouri
+ Arkansas
+ Louisiana
+ Wisconsin
+ Illinois
+ Michigan
+ Indiana
+ Ohio
+ New York
+ Pennsylvania
+ New Jersey
+ Washington D.C.
+ North Carolina
+ Florida
+ Alaska
25 different states. I hope we can beat that this year. Although, I don’t know that I will contribute much. Right now for 2023 I have work trips planned for Las Vegas and Chicago. I’m going to a concert in Omaha. I’m going to visit the triplets in Little Manhattan. I’m sure I will have other trips, but that is what is on the calendar for now.
I rely on my big travelers like Cathie and Sarah and Kim to help fill out the map. No pressure.
We did have many submissions from foreign countries as well. Spain and Mexico and France and a few Caribbean islands come to mind. I plan on tracking that better this year as well.
The big milestone this week was Michelle hitting 52 weeks and joining the 1 Year Streak Club! A big accomplishment! She has said that after hitting one year she would throw in the towel. I guess we’ll wait and see what happens.
It wasn’t all sunshine and roses though. The following streaks went kaput:
+ Mary Green – 1 week
+ Monica Jennings – 1 week
+ Sarah Karber – 1 week
+ Sara Lockner – 1 week
+ Willy McAlpine – 7 weeks
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:
REFLECTION! What a great theme to kick of Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what in tarnation is a REFLECTION picture. It is simply enough a picture where a major compositional element of the picture is a REFLECTION. Mirrors obviously make great REFLECTIONs. But there are other things that REFLECT(ION) as well. For example water. I nicely waxed floor. Eyes. The list just goes on and on. Also, don’t forget that there is more than one definition of REFLECTION.
While considering possible subjects for your REFLECTION picture reflect on the following quote and I’m sure you will create a magnificent REFLECTION image.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest. Second, by imitation, which is easiest, and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius
I look forward to seeing your interpretation of the theme.
The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge. There is a limit of 3 submissions per participant. To be considered the photographer, you have to be the one that takes the picture. Don’t be stealing the work of other artists. You can submit pictures for other photographers that took pictures with your camera or phone, but give credit where credit is ude.
You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.
That is it. Thems the rules!
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of REFLECTION in this place that holds up a mirror to me next Monday.
