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WPC – WEEK 203 – LETTERS OR NUMBERS

August 5, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

LETTERS OR NUMBERS was another solid week! Hitting double digits for submissions for I think the 5th week in a row. I’ll check my math on that at some point in the future.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you came to see the submissions:

Logan Kahler

Becky Parmeleee

Carla Stensland

Christopher D. Bennett

Kim Barker

Kim Barker

Micky Augustin

Micky Augustin

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Michelle Haupt

Tamara Peterson

Stephanie Kim

Angie DeWaard

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:

Music

MUSIC! What a great theme! But what is a MUSIC photo? A MUSIC photo is any photo of anything involved in the production of or listening to MUSIC.

I look forward to seeing your interpretations!

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

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.

Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.

I now allow people to text me their submissions. In the past, I had made exceptions for a couple people that aren’t real computer savvy, even though it was an inconvenience for me and required at least 3 extra steps for me. I am now lifting that embargo because I have a streamline way of uploading photos. I’m not giving out my phone number, but if you have it, you can text me.

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

Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and do better next week.

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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 musical Monday!

Animals, Art, Baseball/Softball, Black & White, Candid Portrait, Flowers, Formal Portrait, Logan, Naima, Photoshop, Self-Portrait, Still Life, Taylan, WPC - Alternate

Available as Another Possibility

July 30, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.

Here are a few more of those BLACK & WHITE pictures:

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE ALTERNATES - BLACK & WHITE

Photoshop, Still Life

2009-04-09

July 20, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

The pictures from the folder 2009-04-09 hearken back to a time that I was panicked that the world’s best toaster pastry was being removed from the market. There was a brief period where my local grocery store wasn’t stocking Toast ‘Ems! I set about photographing Toast ‘Ems, so I could always remember.

Here are a few of those pictures:

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

Friday Night Jazz Club

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve sports.

Baby Got Rack, Boone County Fair, Contests, Jesse, Jodie Cue, Logan, Michelle, Monica, Scottie D., Self-Portrait, Shannon, Steph, Still Life, WPC - Reminder

A Photo Journal – Page 16

July 19, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

REMINDER that starting tomorrow, my 5 entries for the Boone County Fair should be on display. They usually put them out about noon. They will be displayed in the Community Building.

Thanks to:

Logan Kahler
Jesse Howard
Michelle Haupt
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Monica Henning

For selecting the 5 entries.

Special thanks to Stephanie Kim who volunteered to pick a photo, but I think took it too seriously and ran out of time.

Plus thanks to Jodie Cue who volunteered to be an alternate.

Soon I’ll begin the process of selecting photos for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Keep your eyes peeled to this website for details!

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Last Friday I took off work early to go down to Van Meter to the military cemetery to join the Howards for Larry Howard’s graveside service. It isn’t the type of event where I take a camera or ever think about taking pictures. I’m not altogether comfortable taking pictures at a funeral, but this is, strangely, the second time that I’ve done such a thing.

However, after I arrived I was asked to take some pictures, so I did. I don’t know that I’ll share those, but we’ll see. After the service was over I wandered around the cemetery looking around. It was there that I stumbled across the perfect subject for Page 16 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.

Page 16 – Photograph the last thing that made you laugh.

With Page 16 put to rest, here are the following pages that I still need to photograph:

Page 18 – Shoot the other half of this picture by Jason by Jason Evans. – This is profoundly stupid page, but I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet and do it at some point.
PAGE 27- Create drama around the edge of your frame.
Page 28 – Recreate a famous photograph without looking it up.
PAGE 31 – Tell a joke with two pictures.
Page 64 – Head out with a fellow photographer and play a game of photography dare.
PAGE 66-67 – Make a sequence of four pictures inspired by the rise and fall of Britney Spears (or another celebrity).
Page 73 – Turn form into rhythm.
PAGE 101 – Find an object, close your eyes and compse your shot using touch rather than vision.
Page 106-107 – Email one of your pictures to your photography hero and ask them what they hate about it.
PAGE 116 – Shoot an advert where the image says it all without need for any additional copy.
Page 117 – Freeze the frame exactly 57 minutes and 32 seconds in to your favourite film. Take a picture inspired by what you see.
PAGE 121 – Show us that photography is a form of magic.
Page 123 – Don’t take any more photographs -none- until you see something that emotionally moves you. Only then pick up your camera.

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The Boone County Fair is going down right now, which means tomorrow is the annual barbecue/grill-out competition. Baby Got Rack will once again be there competing!

BABY GOT RACK!

If you are around the fair, go ahead and stop by and say hello. It is going to be a brutally hot one so you might want to check to see if we are still conscious.

We are taking a completely different set of recipes than we normally do, so we’ll see how it turns out. Baby Got Rack is nothing, but risk takers!

Hopefully it pays off and we qualify for the Iowa State Fair, but if it doesn’t, we will have no regrets!

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This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is ANGER.

An ANGER photo is any photo of somebody thit is ANGERy or something that makes you ANGERy.

Happy photo harvesting!

Art, History, Logan, Mom, Still Life, Teresa

One is the Loneliest Number

July 16, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

Dipping back into the 2018 backlog today. There is a one room schoolhouse that has been restored and is occasionally open to the public northwest of Boone. One June day, when we were returning home from our post church meal, Teresa, Logan, Mom, and I stopped to check it out.

Here are a few pictures from it:

I think they even rent it out for events. I’m not sure what kind of events, but you can use your imagination.

Andy, Becky, Carla, Kim, Micky, Self-Portrait, Shannon, Still Life, Tamara, Teresa, Vest, WPC - Submissions

WPC – WEEK 200 – SIGNS

July 15, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

SIGNS were a very popular theme. In fact, it was the third week in a row that we hit double digits for submissions. I have a feeling that this week’s theme wont’t be so popular.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about submission rates, you came to see the submissions:

Micky Augustin

Kim Barker

Stephanie Kim

Teresa Kahler

Becky Parmelee

Tamara Peterson

Christopher D. Bennett

Andy Sharp

Carla Stensland

Mike Vest

Shannon Bardole-Foley

ANGER

ANGER! What a great theme! But what is an ANGER picture? An ANGER picture is any picture that shows somebody that in in the middle of ANGER or the results of ANGER or something that creates ANGER.

I look forward to your interpretations.

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HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.

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

Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and do better next week.

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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 angry Monday!

Art, House, Still Life

2009-04-07

July 6, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

The pictures in the folder 2009-04-07 are mostly of the paint, light fixtures, and fans I put in my house when I bought it.

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

The Kitchen
The Great Room
The Master Bedroom
My Favorite President
October Leaves

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve the Junck electric car.

Andy, Kim, Still Life, Tamara, WPC - Submissions

WPC – WEEK 197 – BREAKFAST

June 30, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

As it turns out, BREAKFAST was an extremely unpopular theme. One of the most popular themes ever. Which means that I will definitely bring it back next year. I like to give unpopular themes multiple chances.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:

Andy Sharp

Christopher D. Bennett

Tamara Peterson

Kim Barker

Andy Sharp

Hopefully this week’s theme will rebound the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE to greatness.

Drone, Photo Journal, Still Life

A Photo Journal – Page 20

June 25, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

A couple weeks back when I went up to Kamrar to celebrate my birth I brought along Rodan139 because I felt it was the right tool to photograph what I thought would be a perfect subject for Page 20 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.

As it turned out, it worked out just fine.

Page 20 – Make something big look small.

While Rodan139 was prowling the skies of Kamrar, I snapped a few more photos:

I’m gonna get this project finished yet!

Candid Portrait, Event, Olympic Sports, Still Life, WPC - Reminder

RAGBRAI – VOLUME 1

June 21, 2019 Christopher D. Bennett

In 2018, RAGBRAI went through Boone on its way to its overnight destination of Ames.

If I remember correctly, I worked 7-9 in the morning, then hung up my pick axe and came to Boone to photograph the riders as they came through Boone or stopped in Boone to enjoy the festivities that we offered.

At the time, I remember being worried that I would miss most of the riders as I saw many of them already pouring into Ames on my way from the mine back to the Photography 139 Studio. As you’ll see, that was a fool’s worry.

I took 400 pictures, so as I pick out a few of my favorites, they will be broken into a few volumes.