Personal Photo Project of the Week #92

November 18, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

The New Old

For starters, I’m obviously just backfilling missing blog posts at this time. But I’m sure you’ll forgive me… all things considered…

The idea for this week’s project was to photograph abandoned signs with the Retro setting on the new camera. An abandoned sign by my definition is a sign that is no longer cared for. Either the business that put it up is no longer around, or they no longer care for the sign. The sign has descended into a state of disrepair, and nobody is doing anything about it. Personally, I hope these sign continue to be neglected. I for one love abandoned signs.

All of these abandoned signs can be found in Boone, with the exception of one sign. The one sign can be found if you are driving east on US 30 between Boone and Ogden. It is a sign that has always intrigued me because of the crudeness of its composition and because of its location. It is a sign that has a very strong political message, but you have to be actually looking for the sign because it isn’t placed in a place of prominence. It is more buried in a ravine in the bottom of a ditch.

Here are the rest of the abandoned signs.

I determined during this project that I don’t love the retro setting on my camera, even though I do love a few of these images. I took these pictures on a rainy, drizzly day. Don’t be surprised if I revisit many of these subject in the future with the High Contrast Black & White setting on the new camera.

If you have an abandoned sign that you love that you think I might love as well, feel free to drop me an email with the location and a brief description of the sign.

Dad, History, Slice of Life

Slice of Life Vol. 76

November 17, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

Images from Pufferbilly Days and the Boone First United Methodist Church highlight this collection.

Formal Portrait, Jesse, Kalista, Kelly, Saydie, Taylan

The Howards

November 16, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

I did a little work for the Howards recently. Here are a few examples:

To see several more images of the Howards, follow this link:

THE HOWARDS

Animals, Carla, Karma

The Archives: Edition Forty-Three

November 15, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

General housekeeping note:

I am so incredibly behind on my photo editing that I’m going to take a week or so off from blogging in an attempt to get caught back up. After all like the guy with all the billboards in eastern Iowa says, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”

I wonder if that guy has a book of such wisdom.

Either way, when I am caught up with editing pictures of the “paid” variety, I will try to serve the Master that is my website again. I will again post blogs and you will again take a few seconds to delete them.

These pictures come from: Backup/My Pictures/Animals

If I were to ever have such a thing as a favorite cat, that cat would be one of the cats pictured here. His name is Lucky, but sometimes he goes by Duke. See if you can pick him out.

There are also a few pictures of Karma in this batch. She is the standard bearer for dogs. I’m sure Naima will get there, as soon as she is done teething. At least my furniture and carpet will be glad when she is done teething.

Next week’s photos will come from:

Bakcup/My Pictures/Animals/Marsh

Naima, Vest, WPC - Submissions

RWPE Y2 #45 – EXPLORE

November 14, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

The submissions for EXPLORE:

Mike Vest of Waxen Media

Christopher D. Bennett

The theme for this Week:

SIGNS

A look back at last year’s SIGNS submissions:

SIGNS – 2010

Not sure how I’m going to make this theme about Naima or Foster, but I will find a way.

Only 7 weeks left to make a submission to this failed experiment before it disappears forever.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Jesse, Personal Photo Project, Sara, Willy

Personal Photo Project of the Week #91

November 11, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

False Start

I’ve wanted to do a photo series based on the Ten Commandments for quite sometime now. This was originally an idea for, “Hey, don’t be murderizing anybody.” However, I’ve decided to take this in a different direction. So this is not a true start of that project.

Here are a few other False Start pictures.

Special thanks to Sara for securing an ask from her dad, no questions asked. He even sharpened it for me, even though he knew it was just a photo prop.

Dad, Slice of Life

Slice of Life Vol. 75

November 10, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

The 1385 highlights this collection.

I believe that house is just south of Luther. I’ve always loved that house, but I think it might just be wasting away now.

Black & White, Formal Portrait, Logan

Logan

November 9, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

A few weeks back I did some Senior Pictures for Logan. Here are 15 randomly selected pictures from that photo shoot.

There are about 200 more images for your perusal in the Logan Kahler Album in the Store:

Logan Kahler

Next week’s Wednesday will involve a family portrait photo shoot.

Animals, Bill, Flowers, Jay, Jesse, Movies

The Archives: Edition Forty-Two

November 8, 2011 Christopher D. Bennett

These pictures come from: backup/My Pictures/A Scene from the Woods

From now on out these pictures will be digital, for the most part. Therefore the quality of the pictures will be better, but maybe not the quality of the photography.

The pictures in this folder come from the old RMB Photography Picture of the Day email. These were from pictures I would do around Halloween. I had higher aspirations for this set of pictures. I thought I might actually make a still picture movie out of them like Project: Universe, but I quickly lost my motivation and it was never to be. Kind of like Jay and Games 2.