Alexis, Birthdays, Black & White, Brandon, Derrick, Elainie, Evie, History, Jen, Jill, Johnathan, Layla, Logan, Mom, Ruins, Russ, Teresa

Happy Birthday!

July 12, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

Thought that this would be a good day to share the balance of pictures I took while I was tooling around Boone County looking for my BLACK AND WHITE and Happy Independence Day photos.

The sign says:

On July 31, 1943 a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Bomber Ser. No 41-29052 carrying a crew of 5, crashed at this site during a server thunderstorm killing everyone on board.

This marker is placed in their memory.
Pilot 1st Lt. Melvin S. Meeker
Co-Pilot 2nd Lt. Samuel Levitt
Bombardier 2nd Lt. Matthew J. Radosevich
Engineer T/Sgt James M. Parker
Radio Man T/Sgt Thomas J. Leyshon

The crew was on a navigation training flight from Topeka ARM Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas, to Duluth, Minnesota at the time of the crash.

Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum Ankeny, Iowa

I’ve corrected some of the unfortunate spelling errors on the sign.

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There are a ton of birthdays up in the Photography 139 Universe! Let me start with my nephew Logan. Happy birthday Logan!

I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted it to be! Get some rest. You’re going to need it!

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I also need to wish a happy birthday to Derrick. Happy birthday Derrick!

I hope your birthday was as incredible as you wanted it to be!

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If it is Derrick’s birthday, that also means that it is Jill’s birthday. I haven’t talked to Jill in years, but I still wish her a happy birthday!

I hope your birthday was as joyous as you hoped it would be.

Black & White, Candid Portrait, Flowers, FNSC, Formal Portrait, Jay, Macro, Nature, Willy

2010-01-30

July 11, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

The pictures in the folder 2010-01-30 are from both THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. The flower pictures were taken for the theme PLANTS. THE PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT involves a broken mirror and Willy.

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

Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 6

The Digital Bouquet

RWPE #4 – PLANTS

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve basketball and cleaning toilets.

Animals, Art, Black & White, Flowers, Logan, Macro, Nature, Still Life, WPC - Alternate, WPC - Reminder

When I Stand in Your Love

July 10, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett 1 Comment

I have plenty more BLACK AND WHITE alternates for last week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:

I can’t wait until BLACK AND WHITE is the theme again!

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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is FACELESS PORTRAIT:

FACELESS PORTRAIT

Remember that a FACELESS PORTRAIT is simply a portrait of somebody that doesn’t show their face.

Happy photo harvesting!

Birthdays, Black & White, Flowers, Macro, Naima, Still Life, WPC - Alternate

My Fear Doesn’t Stand a Chance

July 9, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

If you are near your Photography 139 Calendar, you know that today is a big day for the Photography 139 Universe. Today is Naima’s birthday!

While Naima is spending her birthday socially distancing as there has been a resurgence of Covid in Iowa and in most of the United States. You can still leave your gifts for her on the front porch. She might even come out and greet you.

Not enough Naima photo for you, click on the link below to peruse over 700 of them:

Naima

Happy birthday Naima!

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I took a ton of alternate images for my favorite theme BLACK AND WHITE. Here is a collection of them:

Still have one more collection of these pictures to share!

Bill, Birthdays, Flowers, Jay, Jesse, Macro, Willy

May Flowers

July 8, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

I need to start by wishing Jay a happy birthday, so happy birthday Jay!

I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be!

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Here is a collection of pictures I took in my backyard in the middle of May:

The picture of the peony bud is bittersweet. I planted peonies in my yard about 3 years ago. I probably didn’t pick the best spot for them because they have never bloomed. In fact, that peony bud is the first time it has budded. One single bud. I was super excited, but then the bud never bloomed. It kind of just withered on the vine. Maybe next year.

Flowers, Macro

Gross

July 7, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett 3 Comments

Unfortunately, this year, a few dandelions managed to sneak though and ruin the appearance of my beautiful lawn.

But sometimes you have to make do with what you have, so I used this is a chance to take some macro images of dandelions.

Also a picture of my beautiful lilacs in there too.

While dandelions do ruin a perfect lawn, they do serve a purpose in macro photography. So, there might be more dandelion pictures in the future.

Aaron, Andy, Angie, Bill, Black & White, Carla, Cathie, Dawn, Elizabeth, Formal Portrait, Joe, Kim, Logan, Michelle, Micky, Monica, Ruins, Shannon, Tamara, WPC - Submissions

WPC – WEEK 251 – BLACK AND WHITE

July 6, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

Would you believe it? 40 straight weeks of double digit submissions. I didn’t even need to send out any reminders this morning! WooHoo!

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

Elizabeth Nordeen

Logan Kahler

Kim Barker

Carla Stensland

Aaron Barnett

Tamara Peterson

Angie DeWaard

Christopher D. Bennett

Bill Wentworth

Michelle Haupt

Joseph Lynch

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Andy Sharp

Monica Henning

Micky Augustin

Cathie Raley

Dawn Krause

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:

FACELESS PORTRAIT

FACELESS PORTRAIT! What a great theme! But what is a FACELESS PORTRAIT image? A FACELESS PORTRAIT image is a picture of somebody, but there face isn’t in the picture. It can be cropped out of the image. It can be from an angle where you don’t see the face. It can be a picture where something is in front of the face. Hundreds of ways to take a FACELESS PORTRAIT.

For example, Aaron’s submission for this week is an example of a FACELESS PORTRAIT. Logan’s is as well. As is Cathie’s.

I look forward to seeing your submissions!

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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 faceless Monday!

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Taylan

Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 8

July 5, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

Here it is, the final collection of pictures of Senior Pictures. I might reserve the right to keep publishing Sunday journal entries because I have so many flower pictures to the shower. That is what I do. I take pictures of flowers and I know things.

Here is the final collection of Taylan images:

If you want to take a look at all the Taylan pictures in one swoop, click on the link below:

Taylan

Doubt I’ll take any Senior Pictures this year, but I guess you never know.

Basketball, Black & White, Christianity, Formal Portrait, History, Holidays, Iowa State, Mom, Sara, Still Life

2010-01-19 & 2010-01-25

July 4, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett 2 Comments

Happy 4th of July everybody! This holiday celebratory picture is a bit different.

This historical marker commemorates the crew of a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Bomber that were killed when their plane crashed in Boone County during a training flight during WWII.

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The pictures in the folders 2010-01-19 & 2010-01-25 are from a couple different PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT(s). One is of a Sara through the window in my entry way. The other is a picture of some family Bibles. There is also a picture from the 3rd ever WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme was PEOPLE.

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

RWPE #3 – PEOPLE
Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 5
Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 6

Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve Willy and some flowers.

Black & White, Naima, WPC - Alternate, WPC - Reminder

And My Colors Change Like the Sea

July 3, 2020 Christopher D. Bennett Leave a comment

I don’t think a person should go into too much detail about how you create your ABSTRACT images, but I think these alternate ABSTRACT images aren’t too hard to figure out.