As a representative of the Methodist Men, I had to administer and run the PET Obstacle course for the church’s Block Party.
Teresa took my camera around and took some pictures of the event.
Here are some of those pictures:
Next week’s Wednesday randomness will involve the Computer Mine Holiday Card.
Another fairly successful week, I think…
Day 51 – Race
Day 52 – Light Painting
Day 53 – Man Made
Day 54 – Fast Shutter
Day 55 – On the Ground
Day 56 – Thinking
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 57 – 3 Things
Day 58 – Looking Down
Day 59 – Near
Day 60 – Love/Hate
Day 61 – Wide Angle
Day 62 – Errand
Day 63 – Furry Friends
I have to confess that I did flop a couple (nearly all) of these days around for convenience and to work around special events. This is a practice I don’t condone, but one that I won’t shy away from in the future.
The 3rd 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge:
Day 16 – Arrow
Day 17 – Crossed
Day 18 – Food
Day 19 – Faces
Day 20 – Shopping
Day 21 – Hole
These are the themes for the next 7 days:
Day 22 – Fowl
Day 23 – At the Frame’s Edge
Day 24 – From Your Car Window
Day 25 – Pair
Day 26 – Path
Day 27 – A Group
Day 28 – Dream
I’m sure you are already speculating as to what I will do with these themes!
The 1st 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge went fairly smoothly:
Day 2: A Silly Face
Day 3: Behind Glass
Day 4: One
Day 5: Flash
Day 6: Sunflower
Day 7: Logo
These are the themes for the next 7 days:
Day 8: Writing
Day 9: 8 o’clock
Day 10: Fruit
Day 11: Faceless Portrait
Day 12: Ring
Day 13: Purple
Day 14: Spoon
I might have said last week that this random Wednesday collection was going to feature Maddux. Next week’s collection will feature Maddux.
A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of helping chaperone the youth group from my church on a mission trip to Minneapolis.
As you have undoubtedly heard, my point and shoot went kaput on this trip, so I didn’t get as many photos as I wanted. However, with the pictures I had taken and pictures contributed by Sarah and Maddie I was able to put together this video of the trip to show during the church service on Sunday.
Of course, if you subscribe to this blog via email or RSS feed, you will have to go to the website to watch it.
One note on the video. I do think it ended up being the perfect song for the video and I really struggled with the song until I ultimately settled on this acoustic version of Live Like That by The Street Prophets.
I think this song and this version of the song worked perfectly for the video. I played with the original radio release, but I decided it was too hard of a song for our congregation. But I found an acoustic version of it on YouTube performed by The Street Prophets for KLove radio.
While searching for the perfect song I listened a lot of the Matt Maher station on Pandora while walking Naima.
Originally, I was going to go with Matt Maher’s Hold Us Together.
Then I changed to Brandon Heath’s Give Me Your Eyes.
Then I changed to Jason Gray’s Remind Me Who I Am.
Then I changed back to Matt Maher’s Hold Us Together.
But once I found the acoustic version of Live Like That, the choice was obvious, even though I love all those other songs.
Even though, you’ll see these pictures in the video, here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip:
What 1 Ton of Rice Looks Like Before We Got There
What 1 Ton of Rice Looks Like When We Are Done with It!
Maddie Boxing Rice
Kiley and Sarah getting their hair done at Mary’s Place
Emily During Bible Study
Paige, Kiley, Grace and Erica Ready at Feed My Starving Children
Finishing Up at Feed My Starving Children
Blessing the Food Packs at Feed My Starving Children
Sarah, Grace, and Alan Making Boxes at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Jacob and Marshall Boxing Meat at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Erica, Gabe, and CJ – the end of the frozen meat line at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Bagging Noodles at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Erica, Maddie, Amber, and Kiley Sorting Clothes at ARC
Brenton, CJ, and Jacob Sorting Clothes at ARC
Gabe and Jake Organizing Clothes at ARC
Marshall, Jake, Alec, and Alan Working the Back of ARC
Sarah Styling in ARC
Minnehaha Falls
Breakfast!
Andrew During Bible Study
Alec and Grace Draining the 1 Ton Bag of Rice
Emily and Amber Weighing Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Sarah Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Paige Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Steph and Ryan Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Erica, Amber, Sarah, Emily, Maddie, and Grace at the Global Market
Ammie and Paige Playing Sorry at Mary’s Place
Jake and Kids Showing Off their Creation at Mary’s Place
Brenton, Sarah, Grace, Emily, Amber, Erica, Jacob, Paige, Steph, Jake, Ammie, Allan, Ryan, Yours Truly, Gabe, Jake, Alec, Maddie, Kiley, Sarah, Andrew, CJ, and Marshall at the Sculptue Garden
It was an amazing trip and I hope I asked back for next year’s mission trip.
So some of these might be “faked”, but can you prove it? Without checking the exif data?
06/19/2012 – 10:48 AM
06/20/2012 – 12:34 PM
06/21/2012 – 1:43 PM
06/22/2012 – 5:39 PM
06/23/2012 – 11:03 PM
06/24/2012 – 10:15 AM
I wonder what interesting places I’ll go next week?
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04/11/12 8:40 PM
04/12/12 5:04 PM
04/13/12 7:33 PM
04/14/12 3:20 PM
04/15/12 10:05 AM
It is fairly well documented that I don’t enjoy this aspect of my church’s Good Friday service, but I do know a good photo opportunity when I see it!
A few more pictures from our Good Friday Service.
This is supposed to be the last year that Logan portrays Jesus on the cross. It may be the case because he could be in a far off land attending college next year.
In one of my few blogs of the last few months I wrote about a camera phone app called Lightbox. I wrote how I was tired of waiting for Instagram to come to Droid, so I was trying out an alternative.
In the last week or so, Instagram finally came to Droid! I wasn’t sure I would enjoy it as much as the hype, but I truly do. I publish pretty much every every Instagram photo on Twitter (of course) and on Facebook (biting my tongue and trying to forget how much I hate Facebook), so many of you have already seen these images.
For the rest of you, here is a collection of my first Instagram images:
If you have an iPhone or a Droid I highly recommend downloading and playing with Instagram. Of course, I recommend you following me on Instagram as well.
My only note of concern is that Facebook recently bought Instagram (for 1 billion dollars), so I do worry that they will destroy it like most other things they touch, but I will hold out hope.
A few months back I stepped in for Vest in photographing the confirmation students at his church, St. John’s Lutheran, in Madrid. Here are a few of those photos:
