I’ve always had an affinity for water towers. Sometimes I like to photograph them.
Captured this one in Luther on a foggy December morning.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 20mm
APERTURE: f/9
EXPOSURE: 1/400
DATE: 12-24-2016 – 12:44
LATITUDE: 41.96779°
LONGITUDE: -93.82169°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: The Master Playlist
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” by Miles Davis Quintet from the album STEAMIN’ WITH THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET.
The 9 Emotions Project Wall is no more. The 9 16×20 photos are gone. Technically they are stacked in the guest bedroom until I figure out what I’m going to do them.
I’ve replaced them with 9 16×20 canvases to diversify the pictures on my wall and I have this theory that they will be easier to dust. Or at least easier to put out the lie that I dust.
These are the 9 new photos you will see the next time you come visit the Photography 139 Studio:
Right now the 20×30 9 Emotion picture is still up, but that is going to come down sometime soon. I just need to figure out if I’m going to use that space for a giant canvas, or if I’m going to break that spot up with a few more 16x20s. I guess we’ll see what the future holds.
The pictures in the folder called 06-24-07 were from a road trip I went on with Jay.
Next week’s folder is hard to explain, so I won’t even try.
The substructure of folder 06-23-07 is a little weird. I don’t remember what I was trying to do. But here are pictures from some of the subfolders:
Not sure what is in next week’s folder. But I’ll figure it out.
It has been awhile since I did an Instagram post. This isn’t exactly one of those. This is just a look back at my most popular Instagram posts from 2016. Here they are:
Just for fun, these were the 9 most popular in 2015:
I don’t get what you would call a lot of likes on Instagram (I’m not in high school), even though it is by far my favorite social media medium. However, I got 2,000 more likes in 2016 than I did in 2015. Or put another way, the same amount of likes that my niece gets for 1 selfie.
If you don’t follow me on Instagram, you can follow me at @christopherdbennett.
I also run the Instagram account (with plenty of assistance from Amber and Sarah G.) for my church’s Youth Group. Here are the 9 most popular pictures from that account:
If you want to see what I do with my Wednesday nights or the occasional Mission Trip, you should follow that account at @boonefumcyg
Here are some of the images that were considered and rejected for either the cover or one of the months of the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar:
So just hold on tight to those images. You won’t see them in 2017.
Here is the December image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar:
This picture was taken a couple miles north of Ledges State Park and a couple of miles south of Boone, Iowa.
Calendars are currently on sale at great vendors like… me… for a limited time. $10.
Here is the April image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar:
This picture goes into a category (it is a fairly stacked category) of, “I really love this photo but I’m not sure many other people will.” Different strokes for different folks. I love pictures of deterioration. Plus the license plate proclaiming Kansas “Land of Beautiful Girls” just kills me. Fits right into my wheelhouse of humor.
This particular picture of deterioration was taken in Strong City, Kansas. I went to Wichita to see the Zac Brown Band with Nate. The next morning after breakfasting at the International House of Pancakes (I know. Fancy!) we made our way back to Manhattan. Stopping every once in awhile to take some photographs. On one of these stops, I found this truck. The rest is Photography 139 history.
Before I let you go, the Photography 139 Calendar is now in stock.
This is a limited run and there will not be a second run. So if you wish to purchase a calendar, let me know. The price is $10. American.
Here is the March image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar:
This picture is of the Wagon Wheel Bridge west of Boone, Iowa. It collapsed after being hit by an ice flow. The remainder of the bridge was torn down just this week. I took this picture on the day of Grandma June’s funeral. The next day Jim, Nate, Laura, and I jumped in the car and headed north to meet Nora for the first time.
An incredible roller coaster of emotions.
Here is a collection of pictures that didn’t make the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE cut for ROAD TRIP:
Thanks for taking the time to help me mock this pathetic collection of losers.
