Category Archives: Photography

Alisa, Candid Portrait, Formal Portrait, Mission Trip, Pastor Sarah, Travel, Youth Group

@BOONEFUMCYG

June 25, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

By the time that this publishes, I should be on the road to Saint Paul with 3 other “adults” and 14 youth from my church for a mission trip.

If you are in the Minnesota, there is a chance you might be able to join us for a community dinner on Thursday night. You’d have to text me for details if that interested you.

However, if you aren’t in Minnesota, the best way to follow this adventure is to get on your phone. Get on Instagram. Follow @boonefumcyg. If you don’t have a phone, but do have a computer, you can follow us at the following URL:

@BOONEFUMCYG

Now there isn’t a ton of time to be dinking around with the social medias when you are doing

All the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.

However, there will be a handful of pictures posted each day, I’d guess. You might even see sweet pictures like the following:

Also, on Sunday, July 2, in between services, the members of the mission trip will be giving their testimony about the mission trip. In Fellowship Hall. So if you’re interested, you should show up for that.

Faust, Football, Iowa State

09-15-07

June 24, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

I remember this beatdown Iowa State put on Iowa like it was yesterday:

There are a ton more pictures that I didn’t include in this post. If you are interested, you can check them out in the following gallery:

IOWA STATE DOMINATES IOWA AND OTHER 2007 CYCLONE GAMES

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will include Thomas the Tank and a building that has recently fallen apart.

Photoshop, Still Life, WPC - Reminder

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – TIME

June 23, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE theme is TIME:

TIME!

Remember that an extremely short exposure or a longer exposure can really help show TIME. Or take a picture of a clock. It’s your TIME.

Happy Photo Harvesting!

Animals, Black & White, Flowers, Nature, WPC - Alternate

When She’s Saying that I’m Like A Disease

June 23, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This set of NATURE losers was taken in Jester Park.

I’ll be returning to Jester Park soon and spending much more time there at some point in the near future.

Black & White, Flowers, Nature, WPC - Alternate, Youth Group

Then I Wonder Why She Sleeps with my Friends

June 22, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

This collection of NATURE losers was taken at Ledges.

I got off work early on a Friday and headed to Ledges. I thought that I had insect repellent in my trunk, but I was wrong. I forged on anyways. I got absolutely lit up by mosquitoes. It was not a fun experience. Then when I came out of the remote woods (I was off trail hiking) I was greeted by 3 kids from the Youth Group. Their picture was to show me their excitement for the mission trip. It is getting really close now!

Black & White, Photo Journal, Photoshop, State Fair

A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 15

June 21, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Last Saturday while I was leaving the Cultural Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, I came across what I considered a perfect example of Page 15 for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.

This time there was no photo assistant, just a rocking soundtrack coming from a speaker somewhere on the Iowa State Fairgrounds. “We built this city. We built this city on rock’n’roll!!!”

Page 15 – Show beauty in the banal.

Only one photo can go in the Photo Journal, but I also liked these:

I’m not sure what page in the THE PHOTO JOURNAL is next for me. The one that seems to be calling me next is Page 10.

Black & White, Flowers, Formal Portrait, Nader, Nature, WPC - Alternate

When She’s Saying that She Wants Only Me

June 20, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

I’m going to do this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE losers a little bit differently. I actually went out 3 or 4 times to take NATURE photos. I’m going to break them down into those trips. These are the pictures from the first trip that didn’t have what it takes:

These pictures were taken at McFarland Park, north of Ames.

Angie, Animals, Brooke, Carla, Cathie, Flowers, Kim, Linda, Micky, Nature, Shannon, Steph, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 92 – NATURE

June 19, 2017 Christopher D. Bennett

NATURE really sparked something in a lot of people. I think this is the largest group of submissions we’ve had in weeks! Brooke even rejoined us! Welcome back Brooke!

But you don’t want to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You want to see the submission for NATURE:

Linda Bennett

Christopher D. Bennett

Bill Wentworth

Mike Vest

Stephanie Kim

Angie DeWaard

Brooke Milligan 1

Brooke Milligan 2

Cathie Raley 1

Cathie Raley 2

Shannon Bardole

Carla Stensland 1

Carla Stensland 2

Kim Barker 1

Kim Barker 2

Micky Augustin

What a great week of submission!

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:

TIME!

As it so happens, I’m actually short of TIME to write a description of TIME right now. So the short, short version is that the idea of TIME is to capture a moment or moments in TIME. This should be done with either an extremely short or a long exposure. However, there are obviously other ways to define TIME. Some people think that TIME doesn’t even exist. Feel free to use any definition of TIME that works for you.

Good luck and I can’t wait to see your interpretations of TIME!

HOUSEKEEPING

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. I’ll try to do better next week.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION

Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 MISSION DIVISION

For those of you that are observant of my schedule, I will be in Saint Paul on a mission trip next Monday. That doesn’t change the schedule of events. The deadline for inclusion of your submission will still be 11 AM on Monday. At 12:01, next week’s theme will be revealed. I won’t have much access to my email until I return to the Cyclone State on Friday, therefore I won’t reveal the submission until I return or until I feel that I have adequately recovered physically, emotionally, and psychologically.

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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 timely Monday or whenever I release the submissions!