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Dae Hee, State Fair, Still Life

Back to the Fair

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A little return to my trip to the Iowa State Fair.


A windmill near the Agriculture Building at the Iowa State Fair.
Windmill

This windmill is actually located in the same place as all the flowers.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONLY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm Equivalency)
ISO: 100
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.9″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5.3″
ALTITUDE: 239.29 meters

On a housekeeping note, it should be noted, that recently a new Photography 139 blog subscriber was added. So welcome to Dae Hee. If you see him on the streets, give him a knowing glance and the secret handshake.

Flowers, House

Weed

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Saw this spot of purple in my backyard so I figured I better photograph it. After all, somebody once said that “if you don’t notice a spot of purple in nature, it pisses God off.”




Okay, that isn’t the exact quote, but I’m not feeling the motivation to look it up. Google is all the way on my other monitor. Looking over there seems like a ton of work suddenly.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (90mm – 35mm equivalency)
ISO: 160
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE 1/100
DATE: 09-28-15 – 17:08
LATITUDE: 42° 3′ 18.5″
LONGITUDE: 93° 52′ 14.8″
ALTITUDE: 346.78 meters

Angie, Becky, Nature, WPC - Submissions

Weekly Photo Challenge Week 2 – SIGNS

Apparently signs didn’t trip the trigger of many people. Hopefully this week’s category prompts more participation.

This week’s submissions:



Angie DeWaard


Becky Perkovich


Becky Perkovich


Christopher D. Bennett

Time to reveal next week’s exciting new theme!



Camera

Camera… hmmm…. interesting.

CAMERA – noun – a device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, film, or video signals.

As always, feel free to interpret this theme in any way you see fit.

Could you say, I took this picture with a camera and so it meets the theme? Sure. Why not? Let your imagination go wild!

Flowers, State Fair

Yello

I thought I would conclude the work week with another flower from the Iowa State Fair.

Painting this weekend. You’re still welcome to come over and throw some paint on to my house. With a paintbrush or roller.




I’m hoping after this weekend I will have the creative time to start taking photos on a more regular basis again. But we will see.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONLY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1250
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08-22-2015 18:16
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 42″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 5.4″
ALTITUDE: 213.01 meters

Alisa, Black & White, Boone FUMC, Candid Portrait, Event, Pastor Sarah, Youth Group

PET

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Sunday was my church’s annual block party to kickoff Sunday School. Once again, I manned the PET Obstacle course. Only this year it was more like a PET Area, with a couple of chairs thrown out there.

There were way more people there this year, so it was more than just me and one kid hanging out for two hours. So that was cool.

Some pictures.



Jentry


Anna


Anthony


Mackenzie


Jentry Bustin’ a Move


This is what you do when the Methodist Men are cranking out the Lecrae Pandora Channel.


More Dance Moves


Alisa videoing Pastor Sarah


Pastor Sarah


Dick, My Partner in Crime

This was just a small part of a great weekend that included FNSC, lots of scraping, the Majors Family Reunion, and concluded with a 5 year old’s birthday party. Other than the lack of sleep, it was a pretty great weekend.

And it is like the old saying goes: You can sleep when your house is painted.

Becky, Dawn, Michelle, Micky, Night, Vest, WPC - Submissions

Weekly Photo Challenge – Week 1: Night

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This was an awesome week of participation! Hopefully this continues.

A quick note because I forgot to mention this last week. The photo needs to be taken the week of the challenge. This isn’t a I have this photo I took 3 years ago that fits the category challenge. This isn’t a curate challenge. This is a get out and photograph challenge.

This week’s submissions:



Angie DeWaard


Becky Perkovich


Micky Augustin


Angie DeWaard


Michelle Haupt


Christopher Bennett


Dawn Krause


Mike Vest

Now is the moment where I reveal this week’s challenge!



SIGNS!

Sign
noun
plural noun: signs

1. an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probably presence or occurrence of something else.
2. a gesture or action used to convey information or instructions

verb
3rd person present: signs

1. write on’es name on (a letter, card, or similar itemt) to identify oneself as the writer or sender.
2. use gestures to convey information or instructions

Remember to get you submission to me by noon next Monday, however, the earlier the better!. Email me at bennett@photography139.com.

I can’t wait to see next week’s submissions!

Basketball, Becca, Black & White, Bowling, Dae Hee, Derrick, Evie, Football, Fran, Iowa State, Jay, Jeff Daniel, Jen, Jonah, Layla, Music, Naima, Sarah Toot, Self-Portrait, Steph, Tim, Willy, Work, Yin

Insta

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Feel like revisiting my Instagram account. It has been a long, long, time.

Obviously, if you follow me on Instagram, like a boss, you’ve already experienced these.

A few of my favorites:


That was fun! We’ll have to do that again sometime!

Black & White, Nature, Road Trip

Stupid People

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I thought I would revisit Minnehaha Falls for the day.


I called this post STUPID PEOPLE, not because I think people are stupid, but because I had to Photoshop people out of this picture. Why are they in the park when I want to take a picture?

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONLY SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 100
APERTURE: f/7.2
EXPOSURE: 1/125
DATE: 07/11/15 – 12:18
LATTITUDE: 44° 54′ 55″
LONGITUDE: 93° 12′ 37″
ALTITUDE: 222.24 meters