A look at the view of Manhattan from Manhattan Hill.
I’ll most likely be doing a dump of the rest of the images from my trip to visit Nate and Laura at some point next week.
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 10mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/400
DATE TAKEN: 01/17/2016 11:58
LATITUDE: 39.19189°
LONGITUDE: -96.56269
FIELD OF VIEW: 100.4°
This is a view of a Manhattan sunset from Manhattan Hill Park.
The people of Kansas think very highly of their sunsets. Or so I’ve been told.
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 160
FOCAL LENGTH: 210mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/400
DATE: 01/15/2016 – 17:17
When you read the subject of this entry, you probably thought that this post was going to be about the Iowa Caucuses, but actually it is an image from my most recent trip to visit Nate and Laura.
Behold!
Laura tells me that it is quite the thing for people of Manhattan to get their picture taken in the “A hole” of the giant Manhattan sign that graces their skyline.
For the record, I’ve never consider the blank parts of letters to be holes. I guess that is just me.
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 13mm
APERTURE: f/9
EXPOSURE: 1/400
DATE: 01/17/2016 – 11:54
LATITUDE: 39.19196°
LONGITUDE: -96.56279°
ALTITUDE: 546.2 meters
I found this barn and its hopeful message along I70 (or as a Kansan might say 70 Interstate) on my recent trip to visit Nate and Laura. I vowed to stop and take a picture of it on my way home.
Mission accomplished.
While this saying has graced many a bumper sticker, you won’t actually find it in THE BIBLE. I’m usually fairly coy about the titles of the posts in this here blog (even though I’m sure most of them end up being fairly transparent), however, I will flat out tell you if you go read that particular verse, I think it is what this bumper sticker theology is trying to say.
Although intellectual honesty makes me point out I’m not a noted theologian. I don’t even play one on television. You know every once in awhile, PHOTOGRAPHY 139 needs to get in touch with its roots and give a small reminder of where the name comes from.
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 18.0mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/500
DATE TAKEN: 01-17-2016 – 12:42
LATITUDE: 39.06553°
LONGITUDE: -96.29739
ALTITUDE: 19.9 meters above sea level*
*I have my doubts about the accuracy of that number.
There aren’t tons of losers from this week’s theme, but there are a few.
Here are the losers for STORE:
I hope people are having some modicum of success pursuing this week’s theme: GRAFFITI!
I spent the last weekend in Manhattan, Kansas and accomplished all of my goals for that trip:
1. Witness an Iowa State victory.
2. Eat Nate’s cooking.
3. Eat a Varsity Donut.
4. Get to the top of Manhattan Hill.
5. Get to the top of KS Hill.
I have new goals for my next trip to Manhattan, but I’ll share those after I go there.
But we should really focus on Goal #5. Get to the top of KS Hill. I don’t know a lot about the city of Manhattan, but based on their landmarks, it was founded by people that like making large concrete letters.
On one side of the river is a giant MANHATTAN made out of the concrete letters. On the other side of the river is a giant KS. Also made out of concrete letters.
The picture below is the view from on top of the giant KS.
My return trip to Manhattan will involve warmer weather and better planning on my part. This view from KS Hill is just one of many things in Manhattan that I want to photograph at night.
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 12.0mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 01/15/2016 – 11:49
NO GPS DATA
Back in August I went on my 2nd ever work trip for the day job. I went to Corning, New York and Mansfield, Pennsylvania with Micky. We had enough down time to crack out the camera a little bit.
Very few pictures are from Corning, Iowa. No pictures are from Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
Here a few images from that trip:
It certainly beat my first ever work “trip”: going to the Carroll, Iowa McDonald’s to cover their store while their staff had a Christmas Party cause let’s face it, Carroll, Iowa kind of sucks. If the town didn’t have an A&W, it might not even have a right to exist.
A couple of months ago I went to New York State for the day job with Micky. On one of our free nights, we took the rental past a bunch of poorly spelled firewood signs to a beautiful park in Watkins Glen.
The remainder of the Watkins Glen Series:
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve flowers of some kind. Maybe lilies. Maybe not.
This week’s Personal Photo Project was to photograph some of the sights on Music Row in Nashville.
The remainder of the Music Row Series:
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve more of Jim Jordan’s flowers.
Yes! Even more from my trip to Kentucky. Although for the record, all of these pictures were taken in Tennessee.
Next week’s Wednesday should finish up the Kentucky vacation collection.
