I wish I knew where some of these train pictures were taken.
Slice of Life Vol. 43
Category Archives: Photography
More Random New York City – Near Ground Zero
Here are some random New York City images from the Second Day of the trip. These were taken at and around Ground Zero and at St. Paul’s Chapel, which is across the street from Ground Zero.
Regrettably, some of these pictures were taken through a window, leading to a regrettable reflection.
More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday.
RWPE Y2 #12 – Unfocused
There were a fair amount of submissions for UNFOCUSED. So without further adieu…
IMAGE LOST
Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey
Cathie Raley
Will Raley
Christopher D. Bennett
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Mike Vest of Waxen Media
I’ve been over to visit the the Random Theme Generator to get a sweet new theme for this week. It spit out the following sweetness:
FAST
Here is a look back at last year’s FAST submissions:
2010 – FAST
Good luck capturing some FAST subjects.
HOUSEKEEPING
Information no longer relevant.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #60
Think Negative
There were two points to this project. My first point was that I wanted to scan a negative. In this day and age, it is a borderline revolutionary act to use film. Unfortunately I have let too much time and space get between me and my film camera(s). This is an injustice that I hope to remedy this year.
My first point was to make sure the viewer knew that this picture was taken with film. However, initially I felt that just scanning a negative so you knew it was a negative wouldn’t be enough. This lead to my 2nd point.
I was going to hit these negatives with a hammer. This is somewhat loosely based on something I did a long time ago when I printed a picture and then crumpled it up and then rescanned the picture.
However, this photo project lead me down several different avenues and in the end hitting the negatives with a hammer didn’t really produce the result I was looking to produce.
Here are some of the other images and other avenues I ventured down.
I did point out to everybody that I photographed that I would be hitting their picture with a hammer and not to be offended by that fact. Amazingly none of them were.
Next week I’ll return to publishing pictures from the 9 Emotions Project. Jesse and Jay are next up in the hopper.
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The weird thing about these pictures is that I’ve never seen them before, but one of the pictures is eerily similar to a picture I took for RWPE last year.
The watch in a couple of these pictures also showed up in a RWPE picture last year.
Random New York City Images
Even though I only recently started the tradition of posting movie reviews on Wednesdays, I’m already walking away from that tradition. I want to keep this website about photography as much as possible, so I’m going to start posting my movie reviews on my collective blog:
Robot Monster Bros.
If you were to follow that link, you would not find any movie reviews. You will find an explanation of why I do my movie reviews the way I do. You will also find a posting the 10 Things I Learned in NYC. In the near future, I should have a review of Cedar Rapids up.
Wednesdays now will be more of a random photography day. This way I get more photography on the photography website and more writing on the writing website.
Here are some random pictures from my trip to New York City:
The Carnegie Deli, our first stop after the hotel.
The Melo – That is what I am talking about!
Maybe the best cheesecake of my life.
Central Park
Central Park
Central Park Horse
Manhattan Skyline from Central Park
Broadway
David Letterman does not amuse me, but this was still kind of cool.
“Don’t want to be an American Idiot. Don’t want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind (fudge) America….”
Want to know what 72 dollars worth of alcohol looks like in NYC? Sarah and Tim are showing it off.
Steph and I after American Idiot
Jesse and I after American Idiot
Amy’s Bread’s Red Velvet Cake. Tim said this would be the best red velvet cake of my life. Shhh…. My Mom’s is better!
Sarah and I outside of Amy’s Bread
More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday and don’t forget to check out the other website for my list of 10 things I learned in NYC.
RWPE Y2 #11 – Communication
There were a few more submissions for COMMUNICATION. Included in this week’s submissions is 1st time contributor Cathie Raley. I’m very excited to have Cathie aboard and I hope she continues to submit.
This week’s submissions for COMMUNICATION:
Mike Vest
Lee Vest
Cathie Raley
Christopher D. Bennett
Dawn Krause
Hoping to build on the momentum of this week I skipped down to the Random Theme Generator’s humble abode and asked for a good theme for this week. The Random Theme Generator spit out the following theme…
UNFOCUSED
This theme is a slight tweaking of a theme from last year. Last year this theme was called OUT OF FOCUS. We changed the theme to UNFOCUSED to allow for a broader interpretation. A look back at last year’s submissions:
2010 – OUT OF FOCUS
I hope that there are numerous submissions for next week. After all, almost anybody can take an unfocused picture. The thing to think aobut while you are taking your picture is what does it say about the subject when it isn’t in focus?
As always, there is only one rule for the Random Weekly Photo Experiment:
The picture must be taken the week of the theme.
Email submissions to bennett@photography139.com by noon on Monday.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #59
Derrick – 9 Emotions
Derrick’s take on the 9 emotions. If you have forgotten, these are the 9 emotions. Left to right; top to bottom.
1. Joy
2. Sadness
3. Anger
4. Amusement
5. Fear
6. Jealousy
7. Surprise
8. Sympathy
9. Boredom
A closer look at Derrick’s interpretation of these 9 emotions:
Joy
Sadness
Anger
Amusement
Fear
Jealousy
Surprise
Sympathy
Boredom
Since I have about 10 weeks worth of Personal Photo Projects in the pipe ready to be unleashed on the world, I am going to publish two people at a time for the 9 Emotions Project.
The next person to pose for these pictures was Jen.
I don’t usually reveal much about what goes on during this process, but when Jen was making her interpretations, she wanted to make sure she could see Evie, whom she described as her “muse”.
Jen – 9 Emotions
A closer look at Jen’s interpretations:
Joy
Sadness
Anger
Amusement
Fear
Jealousy
Surprise
Sympathy
Boredom
I think next week’s Personal Photo Project of the Week will involve a roll of film and a hammer, but I might go in a different direction. I guess we’ll see.
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RWPE Y2 #10 – Still Life
There weren’t many submissions for STILL LIFE, but at least Julie joined us again! Here are the submissions for STILL LIFE:
Mike Vest of Waxen Media
Christopher D. Bennett
Julie Johnson of The Joy Is In The Journey
I went over to talk to the Random Theme Generator and it immediately spit out a theme for this week:
COMMUNICATION
A great and easy subject for me as I am considered one of the world’s foremost masters of communication. I just hope this theme comes as easy for others as it does for me.
A look back at 2010’s submissions for COMMUNICATION:
COMMUNICATION
HOUSEKEEPING
It is March Madness again, that means that it is time once again for the Roundball Oracles annual NCAA tournament pool. I have already sent out quite a few emails with directions on how to join the pool, but if I missed you or haven’t gotten to you yet, drop me an email at bennett@photography139.com and I will get the information to you forthwith.
As always, this isn’t a boy’s club. Women, small children and the elderly are welcome to sit at my feet and be taught lessons by my extensive basketball knowledge and basketball prognostication skills.
As always, the only fee to enter is pride. The only prize given out to the losers is humility. However, I do provide a trophy to the winner. That trophy is going to look nice sitting on my desk this year.
As always, I hope the winner isn’t Mark Wolfram.
Past Champions
2010 – Mark Wolfram
2009 – Mark Wolfram
2008 – Mark Wolfram
2007 – Tim Peterson
2006 – William McAlpine
2005 – William McAlpine
Last year we had a record number of participants. Basketball knowledge is not a prerequisite for participation. Just ask Carrie Baier from last year!