Here is another photo from the work afternoon I spent with a group of people turning the old grain elevator in west Ames into an “art place”. This was painted onto a window on the third or fourth floor. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V FOCAL LENGTH: Unrecorded APERTURE: Unrecorded EXPOSURE: 1/80… Read More »Gannon and Duarte
It looks like LETTERS AND/OR NUMBERS also wasn’t an extremely popular theme. Might have to put it on the chopping block if this little project continues into a second year. I guess we’ll see. On the positive though, it was extremely popular with first time submitter Sara Lockner. Hopefully this… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 36 – LETTERS AND/OR NUMBERS
This dip into the archives covers folders 03-14-07, 03-26-07, & 03-26-07 B. As promised, there is a picture of a Gra Lab Timer. Control your enthusiasm. Next Saturday’s images will probably include a few week attempts at Still Life. THE CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT TRIVIA QUIZ ANSWER QUESTION 4 When I… Read More »03-14-07, 03-26-07, 03-26-07 B
I realize I never posted the MANOS pictures that were used in the Birthday Party FAQ or in the actual invitation. I also forgot to thank Derrick earlier for being the fire starter during the party. The MANOS images: I’ll be retiring the THE MASTER costume to a wall in… Read More »The Final Manos
There were only a couple of PORTRAIT images that I took, but didn’t use for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here they are: Here is Christopher D. Bennett Quiz question: QUESTION 2 I use Sony cameras because they bought out what was the Bennett family’s unofficial official camera brand, what was… Read More »About a Shotgun Wedding and a Stain on my Shirt
I have tabulated the results for the Christopher D. Bennett Quiz and we have a winner! The WINNER with a score of 61 out of 120 points was Teresa Kahler. Some day soon a semi-fabulous prize will arrive in her mailbox. I’ve been told the quiz was too tough. I… Read More »Christopher D. Bennett Quiz Results!
“You look like you could be from Kansas.” After seeing the remains of this truck and its license plate, I legitimately think that might be a legit pickup line. Now that I’m through the party, I’ll try to get caught back up with my postings. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO:… Read More »Hey Baby…
GLASS did not end up being an extremely popular theme. That being said, there are some solid submissions here. Let’s have a look at the submissions for GLASS. Kim Barker Mike Vest Angie DeWaard Sarah Karber Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland Amy Hahn But that is the past. Let’s look… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 35 – GLASS
Due to my overall fatigue, my free time, my access to computers, and a technical glitch I won’t be posting submissions for this week until later tonight. However, you can still get started on this week’s theme: LETTERS AND/OR NUMBERS Hopefully you’ll get the post I promised in writing on… Read More »Update
I’ve thanked all these people in person, but I’d like to publicly thank everybody that helped out in some either small or big way with my birthday party on Saturday. Big shout out to Scott for making tons of delicious mouth watering chicken and jalapeno cream corn. I only wish… Read More »The Birthday Party of Fate (Roundup)
Another solid week of submissions. Here are the submissions for PORTRAIT: Kim Barker Bill Wentworth 1 Bill Wentworth 2 Angie DeWaard 1 Angie DeWaard 2 Sarah Karber Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest Micky Augustin Carla Stensland 1 Carla Stensland 2 Solid submissions across the board! But why live in the… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 34 – PORTRAIT
I realize that not everybody has either the technical ability, the economic wherewithal. or even the cares in them to scan the QR code on the back of the physical Birthday Party Invite. For that reason, for this one time (and this one time only) I’m publishing a link to… Read More »I Further Celebrate Myself Even More Too, Also
I would explain to you what is going on in this series of pictures from the folder 03-11-07, but you wouldn’t believe me. I’ll probably combine a bunch of folders for next Saturday’s walk down memory lane, but I bet there will be a picture of a Gra Lab timer… Read More »03-11-07
I might have processed this image to within an inch of its life. However, it turned out pretty much exactly as I wanted it so. Everybody wins! It feels like I should show you what the original image looked like. But I’m not going to. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO:… Read More »Feeling Kansas
The subject of this here entry is what I’m guessing most people will think or even feel when they look at the photo that makes up the entirety of this here entry. Possible exception, Anders Runestad. At least I enjoy it. Possibly Anders as well. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO:… Read More »And?
A couple weekends back I went up to Minnesota with Nate and Laura to visit Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, and Colleen. Here are a couple photos from that weekend. I’m sure you’ll get exposed to many more Nora pictures. You lucky dogs!
The collection of COUNTRY losers from the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE isn’t large in size, but the magnitude of their loserness… I’m actually all caught up on my losers now.
A slight dip in submissions this week, but that was to be expected with a bit harder of a theme. It wasn’t too much of a challenger for first time contributor Geri Derner though! Here are the submissions for WINDOWS: Kim Barker 1 Kim Barker 2 Kim Barker 3 Kim… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 33 – WINDOWS
The next two folders are pretty small so I combined them. 03-04-07 & 03-07-07 Man. I’m not aging well. Back to the March 2007 folders next Saturday.
Another photo of the fallen Wagon Wheel Bridge: Probably just a couple more of these up my sleeve. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO:125 FOCAL LENGTH: Unrecorded APERTURE: Unrecorded EXPOSURE: 1/320 DATE: 03/11/2016 – 14:22 LATITUDE: 42.06273° LONGITUDE: -93.97021° PHOTO ASSISTANT: Carla Stensland
On Nate and I’s jaunt from Wichita back to Manhattan we made a stop in Strong City so I could photograph a surprisingly photogenic town. Here is a photo of some rusty goodness: You can take it to the bank, there is more Strong City coming your way! PARTICULARS CAMERA:… Read More »Strong City Elevator