On Labor Day I was able to take a picture for Page 59 of the Photo Journal:
Logan assisted with the production by moving the camera here and there. Johnathan watched in a distance.
While most people will disagree, I think that I don’t take enough pictures of rubber dinosaurs. Probably should get on that.
A few weeks back I took what I thought might be one of the more intriguing pages in THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Page 19.
How do you determine when is the “right now” from the page? What I did was randomly pick a day and a time and set a timer on my phone. On that day I took off driving. Then when my timer went off I gave myself a few minutes to pull over. Then I used the lens that was on the camera. A medium length and range zoom lens. Then I gave myself a few minutes to take a photo. That was how I defined right now.
Here are a few other pictures I took, but won’t end up taped into the physical manifestation of THE PHOTO JOURNAL:
Interestingly enough, during this little photo subject, due to the limitations I placed upon myself, a picture for Page 50-51 was taken. A picture of one of our slithery friends.
Page 119 in THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT probably isn’t one that would appeal to most people. Some people might even call it a hipster page.
Some of you might be asking, “What is a pinhole camera?”
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side.
Turning a DSLR into a pinhole camera is done by drilling a small hole into a camera cover. The idea of a pinhole camera is that everything is supposed to be in focus sorta, but it is blurred often because of the long exposure settings.
I didn’t do the best job with making my pinhole camera. My first hole was too big, so I had to make it smaller with electrical tape. I probably should have just bought one.
Here are some of my other pinhole attempts:
I’m not sure what page is next up for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
This was going to be one of the hardest entries in THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT for me to accomplish. Mostly because, it is a huge time commitment. Luckily, I recently did the thing that Page 100 asks you to do, sorta. Here is Page 110.
This picture was taken on the banks of the Missouri River in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Jesse and I left Boone at 4:15 AM and drove down there to see the Total Solar Eclipse. We met my cousin Sarah and her husband Tim and my Uncle Mike and Cousin Adam and his kid Florence there and prepare for one of nature’s rarest and most awesome spectacles.
Unfortunately for us, it poured rain right up to the totality. It stopped raining, but there was still nearly 100% cloud cover during the totality. Despite not being able to physically see the sun pass behind the moon, I wouldn’t have changed anything from that day.
We still got to experience the darkness of the totality. We still got to experience the 10 degree temperature drop of the totality. We still got to experience the effect the totality had on the animals in the area. We got to experience the totality with some awesome people.
The picture that will be physically adhered into THE PHOTO JOURNAL was taken during the totality. Something that wasn’t ever mentioned in my solar eclipse research is the ring of light that goes around the horizon. That was perhaps my favorite part of the eclipse.
There will be more eclipse pictures at some point.
The next time we visit THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, we will probably hit up Page 119.
Man. I’m late on a blog entry. For the first time in a long time. I guess I’ve been really busy lately. Hopefully it won’t happen again.
Before we get into the main content of this here blog entry, I will point out that the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest photos should be on display tonight. I urge you to go down and check out the photos. They will be on display at 8th & Story. In the window of Ensley Photography’s store front.
I have the 6 entries that were picked out by my 6 volunteers up.
My sister Carla also entered 4 pictures. Yet another reason you should go up there and check it out.
They should be on display until Sunday night. For those of you that don’t love me enough, I will release the pictures that were entered during the blog next week.
Thanks again to the volunteers that picked out my entries!
Now that bit of unpleasantness is behind us, let’s look at something else.
Recently I went to a friend’s abode to make an image for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. The photo below will be taped to Page 103 in the physical Photo Journal:
I won’t tell you whom this is a portrait of, but if you know me and know my friends, it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.
I think this is actually a pretty great idea for a photo project. I can think of several friends that I could have done this for as well. Next time we check in on THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, we will look at Page 105. I’m pretty certain.
When I went to the Iowa State Fair, I had a goal of knocking out 2 or 3 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT images. I managed 2. Here is Page 41:
I actually struggled picking which image to place in the physical copy of THE JOURNAL, but this photo of a mullet competition seems like it would fit into the original collection nicely. Here are the other ones I considered:
The next time we revisit THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT we’ll look in on page 105.
I recently made a trip to Ledges where I knocked out Page 65 for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
I took a few more pictures. Here are a few I like, but won’t be taped into the physical photo journal:
We’ll probably take on Page 41 next time we visit THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
On my recent trip to the Iowa State Fair with Nader, I was able to knock out a couple more photos for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Here is Page 7:
I get it. A bunch of cops hanging around guarding giant donuts. It isn’t that funny. Stop picking on cops for liking donuts. Everybody likes donuts. It isn’t original. I don’t need it in my act. You get it any way.
The next look into THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT will either be Page 65 or Page 105 or Page 41. Who knows? I certainly don’t.
On a recent trip to Algona with Joe we made a stop in West Bend and I knocked out Page 5 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
Here are a few of the pictures I took but didn’t select to tape into the Photo Journal:
I honestly have no clue what page of the Photo Journal I will tackle next.
I was recently doing the summer senior pictures for Saydie Howard. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to do another one of the pages for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT;
Saydie’s beau Kyle and Kelly Howard were photo assistants on this photo shoot. Which was a good thing because Kyle introduced me to a sunflower patch I didn’t know about, but will be visiting soon. Heck I might have visited between the time I wrote this post and the time that this got delivered gently into your inbox by the Photography 139 delivery system. (Spoiler: It is a series of tubes.)
