Sit tight. This is a long one!
Working on the old backlog. These pictures were taken on Christmas Eve last year:
Some of these pictures were taken at Ledges State Park. Some on the High Trestle Trail. Some of them at my chuch (Boone First United Methodist Church represent!).
WATER. That was the theme. Here are the submissions:
Dawn Krause
Robyn Augustin
Christopher D. Bennett
Tamara Peterson
Becky Parmelee
Cathie Raley
Cathie Raley
Cathie Raley
Sarah Karber
Kim Barker
A solid week of submissions!
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:
FLOWERS! What a great theme! A tough one to handle in the final days of fall, but not impossible. There are flower shops. Fake flowers. Poinsettias. Heck! If anything, this theme is TOO easy!
As always, I look forward to your interpretations!
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
Ring the bell! There is a newest member of the ultra exclusive PHOTOGRAPHY 139 EMAIL SUBSCRIBER CLUB! Say hello to Frank Meiners! I’ve known Frank going on 13 years. His server was actually the original host for this here website. The only other thing you need to know about me and Frank is that we are champions. Together.
So if you see Frank walking the mean streets of Ames, feel free to give him a knowing look and teach him the super-secret Photography 139 handshake!
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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 flowery Monday!
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER theme is WATER:
WATER! What a great theme! But rather than defining a WATER image, thought I’d just show you a few examples:
Carla Stensland
Monica Henning
Michelle Haupt
Micky Augustin
Happy photo harvesting!
The balance of the photos from the Women’s March from back in January:
I’m already looking forward to the march in 2018.
And Happy Michael Flynn Day to you!
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is WEATHER:
WEATHER! What a great theme! I could explain to you what a WEATHER photo might look like, but instead, why not show you some examples?!?!
Angie DeWaard
Carla Stensland
Kim Barker
Stephanie Kim
Sarah Karber
Micky Augustin
Mike Vest
Logan Kahler
Those examples ought to get your heart pumping!
Happy photo harvesting!
The world wasn’t ready for these TRANSPORTATION pictures on Monday. I’m not 100% sure the world can handle them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer:
The night pictures were taken at McHose Park. The railroad bridge pictures are from west of Boone. There a couple photos from the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. The final set of photos were taken at the Boone Airport at sunrise.
You’re welcome world.
This is your weekly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE THEME is TRANSPORTATION!
TRANSPORTATION! An easy enough theme. Examples of TRANSPORTATION include a car. A train. A boat. A plane. Your feet. Roads. Railroad tracks. These are just the most literal examples.
Here are some examples of TRANSPORTATION photos:
Angie DeWaard
Bill Wentworth
Stephanie Kim
Shannon Bardole
Kim Barker
Monica Kewer
Happy photo harvesting!
This is a reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is PARTY:
The theme PARTY was suggested by Sara Lockner. I don’t think you need a definition for PARTY. You know a PARTY when you see one!
This is a reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is FRAMED:
A FRAMED photo is a photo where the main subject is “framed” by other objects.
Happy photo harvesting!
On the last Saturday of my vacation I headed up to the downtown Boone area to stroll around and complete Page 33 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
This was a little photo experiment that I enjoyed more than I anticipated. I would encourage anybody to try it.
I put an 18-135 zoom lens on my camera for this page. I decided I needed the extra challenge of also zooming blindly, in addition to composing blind for some reason.
Another thing that I didn’t expect to be so hard about the project (for me personally) was to have to so blindly trust auto-focus.
If you are getting a little bored in your photography, I definitely urge you to try this for an hour or so. It is more fun than it sounds. One other added bonus is not seeing the pictures takes us old-timers back to the days of film and not being able to get that instant gratification of what the picture looks like.
Here are the other pictures I took on this photo jaunt that I like (to one degree or another) but won’t physically be placed in the physical copy of A PHOTO JOURNAL:
I did not crop or straighten any of the pictures.
Next time we check in with THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT we will most likely check in on Page 93.
