Another photo from my trip to the Ledges State Park.
I’m planning on visiting a waterfall in Minnesota this weekend. It will be quite a bit larger. Hopefully still frozen.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 1000
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/2500
DATE TAKEN: 01/31/2016 – 15:08
LATITUDE: 41.99453°
LONGITUDE: -93.88486
FIELD OF VIEW: 22.6°
The improved weather and the theme of TECHNOLOGY must have gotten the creative juices flowing for many. We had the highest participation rate in weeks! That includes first time submitter Bill Wentworth!
Here are the submissions for TECHNOLOGY:
Christopher D. Bennett
Mike Vest
Dustin Jackson
Kim Barker
Angie DeWaard 1
Angie DeWaard 2
I love the fact that there was a wide variety of old and new technology. Both black and white and color submissions. This was one of my favorite weeks ever!
But why live in the past. Let’s look at this week’s theme…
But what is ABSTRACT?
Well here is a pretty good definition of abstract art from the interwebs:
“Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.”
Here is an example from my own photography:
A couple things to try would be to find an abstract piece of art to photograph, photograph something or somebody completely out of focus, use a long exposure (probably best at night) and move the camera around, move the zoom on your lens while the photographing something or somebody, or define abstract any way that you feel fits you.
As always, I look forward to seeing your guys’ creative efforts!
Nothing new to report today. I’ll try to do better this week.
Mr. Wentworth was the most recent victim/model for the continuation of THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT.
Here is his work:
For those of you that have forgotten, reading left to right and top to bottom, these are the 9 emotions:
1. JOY
2. SADNESS
3. ANGER
4. AMUSEMENT
5. FEAR
6. JEALOUSY
7. SURPRISE
8. SYMPATHY
9. BOREDOM
Now I start the search for the next willing participant.
A waterfall (sorta) from Ledges State Park.
Still a couple more pictures from my recentish walk around Ledges.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 10mm
APERTURE: f/22
EXPOSURE: 1/4
DATE TAKEN: 01-31-2016 – 15:05
LATITUDE: 41.99386°
LONGITUDE: -93.88518°
FIELD OF VIEW: 61.9°
And her folks back in Manhattan didn’t want her or her bundle…
So she took her child and caught an evening train…
She found a job in Denver washing dishes in a diner…
At least it buys her baby milk to drink…
He once told her she was pretty…
But the only ring it got her…
Was the ring of grease that runs around the sink…
Yes she lay beside him gentle…
‘Cause he told her that he loved her…
And he made her dance before the music played…
But at least she didn’t beg him…
She’d rather wash her dishes…
It makes her feel as if her hands are clean…
I feel like it has been too long since I published a picture of Naima.
So I’m going to remedy that:
Naima does love new fallen snow. Probably because she doesn’t have to snow. Oh wait… I never have to shovel snow either!
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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/200
DATE TAKEN: 02/14/2016 15:52
LATITUDE: 42.05517°
LONGITUDE: -93.87072°
FIELD OF VIEW: 22.6°
There was a bump in participation this week. Maybe we’ll get another bump next week.
I have to confess that I wasn’t able to get the image I wanted this week because the junkyard I was going photograph was snowed over. Which is too bad, even though it is a chore to get there. You have to cross a stream 3 times and go through a tunnel and then solve the riddle of a troll. I’ll have to photograph it at a later date. If I can solve the riddle.
The submissions for JUNK:
KIM BARKER
CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
MIKE VEST
Time to look at this week’s theme:
As always… feel free to interpret TECHNOLOGY however you feel fit.
PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
We are pleased to announced that Bill Wentworth has become the latest person to display his keen intellect, taste, and sophistication by becoming a PHOTOGRAPHY 139 EMAIL SUBSCRIBER. The addition of Bill stretches the PHOTOGRAPHY 139 EMPIRE to the forsaken land of Nebraska. Replacing Arkansas as the worst state in the Photography 139 Union. I don’t know what I should tell you about Bill. I’ve known him since probably 9th Grade when he was a deacon in Lowell’s shortly lived church.
Bill was a founding member of Saturday Morning Basketball. I was not a founding member of Saturday Morning Basketball, so I assumed that Bill was quite the baller because every time I saw him in the hallways of dear old Boone High School, he was sporting some form of Chicago Bulls gear and talking about basketball.
One Saturday morning I was sleeping in the family den when the doorbell rang. At the door was Anders and Lowell. One of the members of Saturday Morning Basketball was not able to play because he was being forced to work his family garage sale. I was invited to take his place. I jumped at the opportunity because I love playing the greatest game ever invented.
When we arrived at the Health Center, Bill was warming up, his vast array of spin moves and shot fakes. He came over and formally introduced himself. Then he pulled me aside.
“Look” he said, “We aren’t really all that good. Mostly you’ll just want to get the ball to Willy (McAlpine) and Dan (Dill) and let them do most of the scoring.”
I took his sage advice to heart, but I didn’t come there to watch two other guys play basketball.
It was on that Saturday a new friendship with Bill was forged AND a one man basketball revolution came to Saturday Morning Basketball.
Out went the old rule that Dan and Willy couldn’t be on the same team. In came the tacit acceptance that if you weren’t on my team, you weren’t winning.
In the years since Bill has received his diploma from Boone High School, graduated from Iowa State University, moved to Chicago, Saint Louis, and Omaha. Bill is a talented artist and I hope that we will soon see many a submission from him for the Weekly Photo Challenge.
So if you find yourself in Omaha, feel free to give Bill a knowing glance and teach him the super-secret Photography 139 handshake.
WEEKLY CHALLENGE ARCHIVE
Reminder that if you want to look back at past submissions to the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, follow the link below:
As always, I look forward to seeing this week’s submissions.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY from PHOTOGRAPHY 139!
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.
PARTICULARS
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°
One more look at that deer from the other day.
After this photo s/he ran off to the woods. Never to be seen by me again.
PARTICULARS
CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 300mm
APERTURE: f/6.3
EXPOSURE: 1/640
DATE TAKEN: 01/31/2016 – 16:11
LATITUDE: 42.01688°
LONGITUDE: -93.89272°
ALTITUDE: 560.3 meters
