It is the time of the year known as March Madness. That, of course means it is also time for me to run my annual NCAA Tournament Pool. It is open to all interested parties (I’ll take a few uninterested parties as well) regardless of their basketball knowledge. After all,… Read More »Roundball Oracles Year 8
The images below come from the following folder: Backup/My Pictures/New Folder The majority of these pictures come from a concert my friend Mike’s band (Lesser Known Saint) had at the M Shop. I remember telling Mike after the show how much I loved watching him “dance” on stage. He got… Read More »The Archives: Edition Fifty-Eight
Go for the Great This project was just to capture some pictures of storied Goeppinger Field with the fisheye lens. Hope you are enjoying the fisheye lens 1/20th of as much as I am enjoying it, because it isn’t going away. I expect you’ll see more sporting events captured with… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #102
To replace RWPE on Mondays this year, I am going to attempt to take a self-portrait every day this year. I have no expectations that I will take 366 winners (or even 66 winners for that matter), but that isn’t necessarily the point. Although you will be able to see… Read More »Self-Portrait Project: Week 1
A few pictures from Logan’s cross country meet… If memory serves correctly, Logan placed either 2nd or 3rd at this meet.
It was another great season for the Iowa State football team. I did not take very many photos this year, but here are a few of the few that I took. Without commentary. I am already excited for next season!
A few weeks back I went to watch Jen and her crew dominate the Des Moines Regatta. I used to have a bunch of statistics to back up this assertion, but they have since fleed from this old man’s brain. I do know that Jen’s crew got the gold medal… Read More »Regatta
The following pictures come from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Sports Jesse and Jay playing horseshoes at 1 of my birthday parties. Elainie Playing Third Lane catching the winning TD versus the Hawks! I’m not really sure what we thought we were doing here. Bill took this picture for photography class at Iowa… Read More »The Archives: Edition Thirty-Six
Here are the submissions for USE OF SPACE: Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland Mike Vest This week’s theme: SPIRITUAL A look back at last year’s submissions for SPIRITUAL: SPIRITUAL Good luck!
The following pictures are from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Real to Life/Special Effects The term “Special Effects” seems to be quite a bit of a stretch. There are only two “special effects” employed in this folder. The most obvious effects are created by filters. The sepia toned pictures were created by printing… Read More »The Archives: Edition Thirty-Two
Back in the middle of June I made a trip to Minnesota with Jim. There were several great moments on the trip, but I will just cover two of the events in this entry. The first is a tale of when I went to see Super 8 with Jill. Since… Read More »Minnesota
I’m sure many people have already seen these images, but for those who haven’t, I took pictures for the Boone Challenger Program a few weeks back. Jesse and Lowell run the Challenger program and contacted me about doing their photography. Here are some of the images: There are many, many,… Read More »Challenger
A couple weeks back I went to watch Logan run track. Here are some pictures of that: Next week’s random pictures will be of Elainie’s graduation.
There were a few submissions for COLORFUL. Here they are: IMAGE LOSTSara Junck IMAGE LOSTJulie Johnson Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest I’ve been down to the Random Theme Generator and it gave me the following theme: PAINTING WITH LIGHT A look back at last year’s PAINTING WITH LIGHT submissions: PAINTING… Read More »RWPE Y2 #19 – COLORFUL
It is time once again for me to to do a random look at some of the statistics on the website. First up is what are the 10 Most Popular Images in the Artistic Galler. This one is actually somewhat of a shocker. A picture of Brandon has went from… Read More »Post No. 1,101
People have asked me for analysis from the Spring Game and I don’t really have much to give. I don’t really put much stock in the Spring Game for predicting anything for the coming season. Here are my few observations. Take them for what they are worth: Jerome Tiller looked… Read More »Iowa State Spring Game
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Egg Toss These pictures were taken in Dustin’s dad’s basement with a webcam. They were used to promote a crew picnic that I was running for the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire. Perhaps the marquee attraction at this crew picnic was going… Read More »The Archives: Edition Eleven
“In the end, everything is a gag.” – Charlie Chaplin When it comes to college basketball prognostication, 2011 will be remembered as the Year of the Woman. Not only did the Roundball Oracles crown our first ever champion from the fairer of the two sexes, three out of the… Read More »Roundball Oracles Year 7
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… Read More »RWPE Y2 #10 – Still Life
Thus begins my look back into my archives. For now I will begin by going through every folder in my hard drive that dates back before Photography 139. Hopefully, I will rediscover some lost treasures, realize that I have grown as a photographer and see that I have a much… Read More »The Archives: Edition One
Becky Perkovich correctly gave 1 of the 4 possible correct answers to the Christopher D. Bennett Trivia Question: Q: What is Christopher D. Bennett’s favorite movie? A: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Proust Quote “Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.” Confessions Question Your idea of… Read More »Proust No. Seven