Category Archives: Photography

Becca, Bethany, Calendar, Dae Hee, Family, Laura, Nate

An Irrevocable Condition

January 13, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett

Often times when I put calendars out into the world, I worry about what kind of home it will receive. Will it be loved? Will it be adored? Will it end up on a wall with tons of writing on it?

Recently I received a couple text pictures of Photography 139 Calendars in their new homes.

While it might seem that I’m soliciting such images, I am not, but I do love getting them.

Here are those 2 images, Photogrpahy 139 Calendars. Home.

Colleen’s Calendar

Becca’s Calendar

I’m glad to see these calendars have found good, loving homes in Arizona.

Flowers, State Fair

Daisy Bush

January 12, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Oh… why not take a look at another flower from the Iowa State Fair?

Don’t worry. I’ll be out of these by next year’s State Fair. I’m almost to the picture that got me kicked out of the flower garden.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
LENS: 60mm F2 MACRO
ISO: 1000
FOCAL LENGTH 60mm (90mm – 35mm equivalency)
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 -18:31
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.1″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 4.5″
ALTITUDE: 242.22 meters

Angie, Blogging, Kim, Michelle, Russell, Shawn Karber, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 17 – TEXTURE

January 11, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 4 Comments

Considering that this week’s theme was the most accessible, I feel like the amount of submissions isn’t too shabby.

Let’s have a look at the submissions for TEXTURE:

Angie DeWaard 1

Kim Barker

Michelle Haupt

Angie DeWaard 2

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But what is this week’s theme? Scroll down:

STORE!

There are multiple definitions of STORE. When this theme was written, Humble Narrator was thinking about a place you go and buy things, but you can define the word in any way that speaks to you.

Since we are several weeks in, we should have a rules refresher.

RULES

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.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by noon 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.

HOUSEKEEPING

PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION

There is a new email subscriber to celebrate this week. Sarah Karber has shown her keen intellect and sophisticated tastes by becoming a Photography 139 email subscriber. Sarah once worked for the Smithsonian and she got her Divinity degree from Vanderbilt. In short, she is one of the most fascinating people I know. So if you see her out and about walking the mean streets of Boone, feel free to give her the knowing glance and show her the super-secret Photography 139 handshake.

PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SUPER-SECRET HANDSHAKE DIVISION

I haven’t heard any reports from this division for quite some time. I think they’ve given up.

BLOGGING NEWS

A reminder that while I’m not posting these in AN ARTIST’S NOTEBOOK AKA The Journal AKA this here blog, the 2016 SELF-PORTRAIT PROJECT (or as Russell calls it THE SELFIE PROJECT) is ongoing and you can check in on it over yonder:

2016 SELF-PORTRAIT PROJECT

On Saturdays, I’m going to start publishing lists. This won’t be shared on any social media. It will be kind of a perk for being an email subscriber. Well, maybe a perk. Maybe a torment. I don’t really have real strong plans for it, but I’m sure you’ll be able to look forward to my opinions on things I know about (the best tenderloin spots in Iowa) and things I don’t really know about (I’m not really sure what qualifies here) to things I don’t really care about, but other people do (ranking the best STAR WARS movie to the worst).

Well, stop reading this and get out and take a STORE picture!

Basketball, Derrick, Evie, Iowa State, Jen, Layla, Naima, Photoshop, WPC - Reminder

With the Beefcake Pantyhose

January 8, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

You can look at this collection of losers for RED from the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in a couple of different ways.

Either I just wanted an excuse more pictures of my dog.

Well that is interesting.

You see, there is a setting on my camera that drops out all other colors but red. It is far from 100%, but it creates interesting images.

Oh… also a picture of my trip to Hilton with Jen, Derrick, Evie, and Layla thrown in at the end there.

Linda, Road Trip, Ruins

Kobe

January 7, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 7 Comments

A picture of something broken down and old. From my Aunt Linda’s farm.

As you all know E’s here to rule… No wait that isn’t right.

As you all know, I love rusted out old stuff. I will need to photograph this farm more thoroughly at some point.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 500
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/100
DATE: 11/20/15 – 14:44
NO GPS DATA

Black & White, Flowers, State Fair

Osteospermum

January 6, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

It has probably been too long since I posted a picture from the Iowa State Fair flower garden. Better remedy that:

Daisies have always been one of my favorites to photograph.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: Sony SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1000
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 18:31
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.2″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 4.5″
ALTITUDE: 242.25 meters

Self-Portrait, Self-Portrait Project

Self-Portrait Project de 2016

January 5, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 6 Comments

I’m starting a self-portrait project where I take a self-portrait every day for 2016 with New Toy*. At the end of 2016 I will compile these into a video and you can witness how time ravages this beautiful visage.

These photos are not meant to be particularly ambitious. Just me, in my ordinary backgrounds of my life.

It is possible that if you attend a party, wedding, mission trip, or sporting event with me, you could get drug into this project as well.

I should note that due to my history with point & shoot cameras, I will be surprised if I finish this project and don’t break New Toy before 2016.

Here are the first few images:

I won’t be posting these pictures on a regular basis, but if you feel so inclined, you can follow along as I post them to their gallery. Click link below:

2016 Self-Portrait Project

*Not really new at this point.

Angie, Becky, Carla, Kim, Naima, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 16 – RED

January 4, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett

There were a surprising amount of submissions this week for it being a holiday season. Hopefully we build on that this week.

Submissions for RED:

Becky Perkovich

Carla Stensland

Kim Barker

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Angie DeWaard 1

Mike Vest

Angie DeWaard 2

So what is this week’s theme?

Let’s have a look:

TEXTURE

This should be an interesting one. It might be one of the more difficult themes, but I hope that doesn’t scare anybody away. As always, I’ll be excited to see all the submissions.

GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING NOTES

No new subscribers.
No movement on the secret handshake development front.

Anders, Angie, Baier, Becky, Blogging, Calendar, Carla, Cousin Amy, Dae Hee, Dawn, Eric, Faust, Flat Earth Joe, Flowers, Funk, Geri, Holidays, Houlihan, Jay, Jesse, Jill, Jorge, Laura, Michelle, Micky, Monica, Nader, Russell, Sara, Scottie D., Shannon, Suzie, Teresa, Vest

2015

January 1, 2016 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

So the walk down memory lane now concludes. With a look at the images that were in the calendar that early this morning will be taken down from kitchen walls (most common place I’ve seen the calendar hung up), office walls, cubicle walls, and placed gently in the trash with yesterday’s coffee grounds. 2015 Photography 139 Calendar I bid you a fond adieu.

Front Cover

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

If you ever get bored and want to take this walk down memory lane again, you can visit the Calendar and Postcards Gallery in the PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY. Link below:

CALENDAR & POSTCARD GALLERY

Since yesterday was the end of year and a holiday that many people celebrate (not me though, I don’t need the calendar gestapo telling me when to start a new year) I would like to take a quick moment to thank everybody that has continued to be an email subscriber to this here blog.

Off the top of my head and I apologize if I miss anybody:

These people are all original subscribers or at least haven’t changed their email since August 22, 2011. Which is how far back the records from off the top of my head go.

Jay Janson
Jason Baier
Shannon Bardole
Scott Degeneffe
Corey Faust
Susanna Funk
Jill Gorshe
Jesse Howard
Sara Lockner
Teresa Kahler
Nader Parsaei
Becky Perkovich
Bernice Verhoorn
Janice Peterson

Suzie Brannen – Since June 22, 2012
Eric Hiatt – Since August 20, 2012
Kim Barker – Since September 18, 2012
Amy Junck-Wallendal – December 18, 2012
Russell Kennerly – Since May 13, 2013
Tim Tucker (Not the one most of you are thinking about) – Since June 27, 2013
Michelle Haupt – Since July 12, 2013
Tim Tucker’s Woman (Sorry, never caught her name) – Since August 22, 2013
Geri Derner – Since September 30, 2013
Micky Augustin – Since October 10, 2013
Angie DeWaard – Since August 24, 2015
Mike Vest – Since September 9, 2015
Melissa Degeneffe – Since September 14, 2015
DaeHee Yoon – Since September 29, 2015
Monica Kewer – Since October 2, 2015 (Current email)
Carla Stensland – Since October 5, 2015
Joe Lynch – Since October 9, 2015
Jorge Rios – Since October 9, 2015
Anders Runestad – Since October 11, 2015
Elizabeth Nordeen – Since November 2, 2015
Laura Miller – Since November 9, 2015
Michael Houlihan – Since November 16, 2015
Dawn Krause – Since December 21, 2015
Joe Duff – Since December 21, 2015

Thanks for all the support and for making 2015 a successful year, by some sense of the word. I hope our little family here continues to grow. I’ll try and do better in 2016!

Calendar, Flowers, Macro

2014

December 31, 2015 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

We’re almost to the end of this journey. Thanks for taking it with me. It has allowed me to become reacquainted with some old favorites. Hopefully you’ve become reacquainted with some old favorites or been introduced to some new favorites.

It has been educational for me to see where I’ve been. It has definitely helped me shape where I’m going. A new vision and a reinvigoration.

Enough of that… Let’s look at 2014…