This is your weekly reminder that COLD is the theme for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
COLD!
I don’t feel like an explanation is warranted for COLD.
Happy photo harvesting!
Weekly Photo Challenge Reminder – Cold
COLD!
COLD!
Late at Night She Knocks on My Door
These pictures didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the YELLOW theme of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
If only these pictures believed in themselves, no telling what they might be able to accomplish!
9 Emotions Project – Johnathan Stensland
My nephew Johnathan was the last victim… ahem… participant in the 9 Emotions Project:
9 Emotions Project – Johnathan Stensland
In case you have forgotten, these are the 9 emotions:
Joy
Sadness
Anger
Amusement
Fear
Jealousy
Surprise
Sympathy
Boredom
So who will be the next victicant of the 9 Emotions Project? We will see!
Farewell to David and Erica!
A couple of Sundays ago my church said goodbye to our Choir Director David Sponder and our Nursery Directory Erica Melhaus.
I was tasked with taking a few photos. Here are a few of those photos:
David accepted a teaching position in northwest Iowa. Erica will be attending on of the finest equestrian programs in the nation in Ohio. They both will do amazing things in the future!
Baby Got Domination
For the second straight year, Baby Got Rack competed at the Boone County Fair barbecue competition. Sponsored by State Farm or Farm Bureau or some insurance company.
Here are a few snaps from the very, very, very hot day:
BGR needs to thank Jesse for bulling it up, Willy for taking some of the photos, and for all of our super fans that came out to support us.
I honestly can’t remember how we did exactly, but I think it went something like this:
Tied for Best Overall for Lamb
Won Lamb
Won Pork
Won Turkey
2nd in Chicken
3rd in Beef
Or something like that.
By winning a category, we clinched a birth at the State Fair barbecue competition. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to contend because some of us have to adult on that day.
However, Baby Got Rack will be back at it during the Pufferbilly Days Barbecue Contest. If it is the same as last year, it will be on the Sunday of Pufferbilly days on the corner of 8th and Story.
So come down on Sunday, September 3. Look at the Photo Contest photos and then come over for some award winning barbecue. You won’t be disappointed!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 99 – YELLOW
YELLOW really got the old creative juices flowing. I’d reckon that there is close to a record number of submissions this week.
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see this week’s submissions. Here they are:
Angie DeWaard
Brooke Milligan 1
Brooke Milligan 2
Dawn Krause
Kim Barker
Kim Barker 2
Carla Stensland
Shannon Bardole
Logan Kahler 1
Logan Kahler 2
Logan Kahler 3
Micky Augustin 1
Micky Augustin 2
Tamara Peterson
Christopher D. Bennett
Michelle Haupt
Mike Vest
Stephanie Kim
Teresa Kahler 1
Teresa Kahler 2
Teresa Kahler 3
Teresa Kahler 4
Bill Wentworth 1
Bill Wentworth 2
Cathie Raley 1
Cathie Raley 2
Linda Bennett
What an incredible week of submissions!
I wish I could tell you the remaining themes are as easily accessible as YELLOW and SKY, but they aren’t. There are some challenging ones in there. But I know you guys are up to the challenge!
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:
COLD!
COLD! What a great theme! I don’t think I need to explain COLD. It is a temperature that we haven’t felt much of lately here in the middle of the Cyclone State. But it is more than just a temperature. People can be COLD. Actions can be COLD. Feel free to define COLD any way you see fit!
I look forward to seeing your interpretations!
HOUSEKEEPING
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
1. 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.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. 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
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION
Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.
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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 frigid Monday!
A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 17
I was recently doing the summer senior pictures for Saydie Howard. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to do another one of the pages for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT;
Page 17 – And what about the last thing that made you cry.
Saydie’s beau Kyle and Kelly Howard were photo assistants on this photo shoot. Which was a good thing because Kyle introduced me to a sunflower patch I didn’t know about, but will be visiting soon. Heck I might have visited between the time I wrote this post and the time that this got delivered gently into your inbox by the Photography 139 delivery system. (Spoiler: It is a series of tubes.)
10-13-07
The pictures in the folder 10-13-07 are from the Iowa State-Texas football game. Here are a few of them:
I don’t recall who won this game, but I’m sure it was Iowa State by a lot as the Gene Chizik era was starting to gain momentum…
If you want to see more of the photos from Iowa State’s 2007 football season, click on the link below:
FONT COLOR=BD2031>IOWA STATE CYCLONES FOOTBALL – 2007
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane looks to be some tree and night photography.
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – YELLOW
This is your weekly reminder that YELLOW is this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
YELLOW!
I don’t think you need a refresher on what YELLOW looks like. So get out there and take some YELLOW pictures!
Happy photo harvesting!
Selfie Project – June
Here we are in August and I haven’t checked back into THE SELFIE PROJECT for the month of June. Here are some of favorites from June:
June 2
June 5
June 8
June 9
June 10
June 11
June 13
June 15
June 16
June 17
June 18
June 20
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 28
June 29
June 30
One side effect of THE SELFIE PROJECT I wasn’t expecting is that there are times when I think that might life is boring and I don’t do all that much. Then I look back at these pictures and I can see that I DO get out of the office or off the couch every now and again.
If you want to see all THE SELFIE PROJECT images, you can go here:
SELFIE PROJECT – 2017
And of course, you can stay current on THE SELFIE PROJECT by following me on the Instagram:
@christopherdbennett
I hope my July ended up being as good/great as my June!