Category Archives: Portrait

Becca, Bethany, Billy, Black & White, Cathie, Colleen, Dory, Flat Earth Joe, Flowers, Formal Portrait, Holidays, J.T., Jonah, Macro, Michelle, Micky, Nate, Nora, Taylan

Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 4

May 10, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

I need to start this post buy wishing all mothers out there a very happy Mother’s Day. Take this picture of a Mother’s Day Peony as my way of saying thanks for all that you mothers do!

My Mom’s Mother Day wasn’t typical. Teresa bought some Pizza Ranch chicken and we hung out and watched Netflix. She went out to Carla’s for a short grill-out in the evening. But I’m sure she still considered a successful Mother’s Day.

Hope all you mothers had a successful Mother’s Day too!

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Today is Becca’s birthday. Happy birthday Becca!

I hope it was a truly magical birthday!

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Also, happy birthday to Michelle!

I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted it to be!

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Finally, it is yet another Senior Sunday and it is once again Taylan’s turn in the rotation. Here are more pictures of Taylan:

Still a ton more Taylan photos still to come!

Becca, Bethany, Billy, Candid Portrait, Dory, Event, Formal Portrait, J.T., Jonah, Laura, Nate, Nora, WPC - Reminder

Baby Triforce 1st Birthday Party – Gamma

May 8, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

The third and final collection of pictures from the Miller Triplets birthday party. I know, I’m sad about it too. Who knows when I’ll be able to get adorable triplet pictures again. Hold on to these times my friends.

It could be a long time before I see any of these people again, so I guess Laura’s Snapchat stories and Becca and Bethany’s Instagram posts will have to be enough for now.

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This is your reminder that this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is EMOTIONS:

EMOTIONS

An EMOTIONS pictures is pretty simple. It is just a picture of somebody or something showing an EMOTION(S) or even a picture of something that stirs EMOTIONS in you would also work.

I get the notion that this might not be as popular of a theme. I’ve had zero submissions to this point. The last couple of weeks I have had a handful of submissions by now.

Get on it!

And.

Happy photo harvesting!

Candid Portrait, Scottie D.

A & P #2

May 7, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

Once again, I feel like sharing a few photos from my annual photo shoot with Austin, Porter, and Scottie D.

This year it involved the skate park out at McHose Park and remote control cars.

Here is another collection of images:

Just a reminder, if you are thinking about getting into marijuana, carts are better than buds. I have no clue if that is true, but somebody thought it was a message the skate world at McHose Park need to know about it.

One more collection of these images still to come!

Alexis, Andy, Birthdays, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Carla, Elainie, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Johnathan, Kalista, Kanoa, Kelly, Kupono, Sabas, Saydie, Taylan

Elainie Homecoming Ch. 2

May 6, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

I need to start this post by announcing that the Sharp family is making laundry detergent like crazy and donating it to area food banks like IMPACT and the Toreador Pantry.

However, they need more laundry detergent jugs, so they have set up a garbage can at the end of their driveway where people can donate jugs for them to fill. No jug is too small or too big.

You can find the donation dropoff spot at the end of their driveway.

The live at 1005 South Division Street in Boone. Basically keep going south on Division Street until you can’t go any farther. There will be some photos of their work shared at a later point.

Thanks to anybody that donates!

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Happy birthday to Kelly! She doesn’t subscribe to this blog, so she will never see this, but happy birthday anyways:

I hope it is a great birthday!

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Time for another collection of Stensland pictures I took when Elainie came home last fall:

A reminder that I love the candid pictures that I take between the posed pictures so much more than I do the posed pictures. But that is maybe just me.

So much more coming from Elainie’s homecoming.

Animals, Billy, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Dory, Flat Earth Joe, Football, J.T., Jorge, Self-Portrait, Vest, Work

Stochastic

May 6, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

This is the last collection of random pictures from 2019. Everything else that is left in the 2019 backlog belongs to a collection of pictures. Such as family portraits or senior pictures or a wedding.

Enjoy:

I can almost see the light at the end of the 2019 backlog. But there is still a ton of photos to go. WooHoo!

Becca, Bethany, Billy, Birthdays, Candid Portrait, Dory, Event, J.T., Jonah, Laura, Nate, Nora

Baby Triforce 1st Birthday Party – Beta

May 5, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

You want even more pictures of the triplets first birthday party? Guess what. You came to the right location!

The one thing about having triplets is that there is almost enough babies to go around to all the grandparents and aunts and uncles. Almost.

One more collection of Baby Triforce birthday party pictures in the hopper!

Art, Jesse, Jorge, Road Trip, Self-Portrait

Camping World Bowl Road Trip Day 5 – Superman

May 5, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

The last day of the Camping World Bowl Road Trip consisted of leaving our hotel in Kentucky and driving home. We only really made a couple stops. One stop was in Metropolis to visit Superman. The other stop was at the Hen House for lunch.

It concluded a great trip that covered many miles in very few days. 3 dudes and a pregnant lady carrying twins.

Yeah, I didn’t mention that Jorge’s woman Randi made the entire trip while pregnant. We left for Orlando the day after Christmas. They found out a day or two before Christmas.

They didn’t know it was twins, but the amount of time that I saw Randi throwing up in a Walmart bag on this trip might have been a good indicator that twins were on the way. But that just might be an urban legend.

Either way, I don’t know how she made the entire trip. What a trooper! Perhaps the real superhero on this trip. Sorry Superman.

Slurped down breakfast as fast as possible, to avoid listening to the banality of Fox & Friends.

Here are my official Superman Power Rankings:

1. Christopher Reeve

That is it. There is only one Superman. Nobody played Superman before and nobody has played him after. Christopher Reeve is Superman.

At this point, it is a fairly safe bet that there won’t be a bowl road trip this year. That is because Iowa State will be playing in a bowl game that is played in 2021!

Black & White, Formal Portrait

Senior Sunday – Garrett – Volume 2

May 3, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

Time once again for Senior Sunday! It is Garrett’s turn once again in the rotation.

We took Garrett’s pictures in the southside Ames Racquet and Fitness parking lot on the Sunday of Pufferbilly Days. It was a cloudy day (a win), but it also started raining part of the way through the photo shoot.

Here are some more of my favorites from the photo shoot:

I’ve taken senior pictures with significant other. I’ve taken them with animals. But this was the first time I’ve ever taken them with cycling teammates.

Until next Senior Sunday!

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Jill, Johnathan, Macro

2009-11-04

May 2, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

The images in the folder 2009-11-04 are a collection of pictures from a little bit all over the place. The majority of the pictures are from Johnathan’s senior pictures photo shoot. But there are also pictures in there from when I completed Window Project #1 and from when I was modeling a shirt I was given from when I was initiated into a group known as “The Girls”.

I’m not sure if “The Girls” is still a thing, but I still own the shirt. I’m sure it fits a little tight now. I don’t know if it will survive the great clothing purge that is coming, but I give it a fighting chance.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from folder 2009-11-04:

Johnathan invented the fake looking smile. It didn’t exist before him. I’m pretty sure the remnants of Window Project #1 are still in my basement. It fell apart. It might go in the burn pile. I have lots of stuff I’m going to burn when the burn ban gets lifted in Boone. Lots of stuff in that basement are itching for a burnin’.

I tried and failed to change the name of “The Girls” to “The Badass Action Sqaud”. That is perhaps why “The Girls” lasted staying power of a group with a great name. For example, “The Boone County Sea Dogs”.

By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:

Johnathan – Day 1 Part !
Johnathan – Day 1 Part B
Johnathan – Day 1 Part C
Johnathan – Day 1 Part D
Johnathan – Day 1 Part E
Window Project #1
Confabulation

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve Iowa State football and a rabbit.

Animals, Art, Jesse, Jorge, Road Trip, Self-Portrait, WPC - Reminder

Camping World Bowl Road Trip Day 4

May 1, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett

Day 4 of the road trip was a grind. We left Orlando and drove for like 15 hours to get back to Kuttawa, Kentucky.

The only real stop we made was a fancypants gas station in Georgia that sold pecans. I kinda thought the pecans down there would be cheaper and maybe they are, but they were still crazy expensive. But I’m not a pecan expert.

#wafflelife

The hotel we stayed at had a sweet aquarium.

Attached to their phones. Worse than traveling with teenagers.

Crane in the hotel parking lot.

Bikers?

I got so many yard decorating ideas from this place!

Damn right we hit another Zaxby’s!

Good night from Kentucky.

This wasn’t my style of road trip. I like to be able to stop at random things and meander and photograph. I hope this year’s bowl trip is either closer (I already know it will be in a better city) or I’m able to space it out over a longer time frame. Otherwise, flying might be the way to go.

I would love to go back to Memphis, but there are a lot of people laying down some pretty high expectations for Iowa State this season. I think it will depend on how well the offensive line comes together though.

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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is TREE:

TREE

A TREE image is any image that involves a TREE or a TREE byproduct.

Happy photo harvesting!