More pictures from my trip to State Center with my Mom.
More pictures from the Sorrow and Gladness series tomorrow.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #77 Beta
Personal Photo Project of the Week #77 Alpha
Sorrow and Gladness
This week’s Personal Photo Project comes from a trip I made to the State Center Rose Garden with my Mom.
Here are more pictures from the Sorrow and Gladness series.
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More rose pictures tomorrow.
Slice of Life Vol. 59
Some pictures of me in some kind of Big Wheel competition. Plus a sweet picture of Carla and her friend with their matching bikes. Plus a couple of pictures of when we moved a garage.
Kalona Road Trip
A few weeks back I went on a road trip with Sara, Cousin Amy, and the Funk to have lunch at an Amish woman’s house in Kalona. The trip was set up by the Funk who has ties to the Amish community in Kalona as she is formerly Amish.
I’ve really only known the Funk for a few months now, but she is truly one of the most fascinating human beings I’ve ever met. Not just because she is formerly Amish, but I can’t lie, that part fascinates me.
I really find the Amish community to be fascinating and to have somebody to ask question after question after question after question to is really cool for me.
The pictures of the Amish woman’s (Ruby Miller) house are being held back for Personal Photo Project #77, but here are a sampling of the other pictures we took on this incredible day.
Disclaimer: I go to Kalona about once or twice a year with my Mom. I never photograph the Amish while I’m there because I know that it is not something that they would enjoy (clearly not the right word). But on this trip I did take a couple of pictures of some Amish at the urging of the Funk. One of the pictures I took was of an Amish volleyball tournament. I really wish I would have been able to stop the car and enter the tournament. I have a history of dominating religious tournaments. A Pentecostal volleyball tournament here and a Mormon basketball tournament there. However, Amish volleyball tournament was not to be added to my list of life experiences.
Cheese from the Kalona Dairy
Kalona Dairy
Kalona Dairy
Picture for The Story Project
Flower for Sale at the Bakery
The Funk in the Community Store
The Funk in the Community Store
Clematis
Good Grass Fed Beef
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Sara in Stringtown
Another bonus of this trip was taking Sara to Sister’s Garden. I’ve always kind of viewed it as Sara’s mothership even though she had never been there before. Now that has been remedied.
Next week’s Wednesday random picture collection will be from a baseball game I attended in Minnesota.
The Archives: Edition Twenty-Six
This also seems to be a pretty random collection of photos. Some of these pictures were taken by Teresa.
These pictures come from:
Backup/Old My Pictures/New Photos
Sadly My Photoshop Skills Haven’t Improved
This is the 1st picture I ever had accepted to the State Fair.
This autographed picture was given to me by Steph. Simon Estes pulled it out of his trunk when she asked for it.
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/Old My Pictures/Photoshop
RWPE Y2 #28 – GAMES
There were a few submissions for GAMES. Here they are:
Mike Vest
IMAGE LOST
Shannon Bardole
Geri Derner
Christopher D. Bennett
My picture may be confusing, but believe me, I only had time for one kind “game” this past week.
I’ve been to the Random Generator and it has spit out the following theme for this week:
FRAMING
Here is a look at last year’s submissions:
FRAMING
GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING NOTES
A few weeks ago, Shawn designed a logo for me. The logo looks something like this:
- The logo has been added to the header.
- 11 new header images have been created.
- The weather forecast for Boone, Iowa has been added to the Calendar.
- A miniature slideshow has been added to the sidebar of the About, Contact, Calendar, and Downloads pages.
- I have (with the assistance and nudging of Shawn) created a Photography 139 Facebook page. In order to get my own URL, I have to have 25 people “Like” it. You can help me in accomplishing this task by going to virtually any page (except the Store and galleries) and clicking on the little “Like” link located in the sidebar.
- I have added a Google+ link to virtually every page on the website. So if you are on Google+ and like a Journal entry and want to share it with other people, you only need to click on the +1 icon in the sidebar and it will appear in your Buzz section.
- At the bottom of every single journal entry (individual page), there is a Tweet icon. If you really like a journal entry, you can click on this icon and it will Tweet a link to this page for you.
- On the Home page there is a slideshow tentatively entitled “Pictures of the Month”. That title will change and it will eventually be a slideshow of my most recent photos.
- Underneath my Twitter Feed in the Journal, I have added a link to make it easier for you to follow my numerous brilliant outbursts on Twitter by clicking the Follow icon.
These are changes that are coming down the pipe. Some are partially implemented. Some are not.
- The Artistic Gallery and the Snapshots Gallery are being retired. They will still exist, but I will not be adding new images to them and they will not be accessible through the Navigation Bar at the top of the website. You will still be able to access them with a direct URL, at least for the foreseeable future. There just isn’t a reason to continue these galleries with the advent of the Store.
- Pictures for Journal Entries will be housed in the Store, rather than in the galleries. The benefit is that the images will be larger and you will be able to click on an image and get even a larger image. This doesn’t cover all images. Some of the images that are published in The Archives just aren’t big enough to utilize this enhancement. The same goes for the Slice of Life pictures. But virtually all other images will benefit from this new feature when it is implemented fully.
- Email subscription deliveries will be handled by the website directly. Currently, the website emails me and then I email everybody that has subscribed via email. Last time I attempted this, there were some bugs in the system. However, this is an advantage to you because you won’t have to wait for me to crawl out of bed (or in the case of this weekend when I will be out of state), you won’t have to wait for my return to get your high quality Photography 139 content. I should point out that I write my blogs up to 2 months in advance. So if I’m struck by lightning and die at some point in the near future and you keep getting emails from me. It is an act of technology, I’m not talking to you from the other side. Of course, if you want to subscribe via email, you just have to drop me a line at bennett@photography139.com.
Personal Photo Project #76 Gamma
The remainder of the pictures from my Grandma’s flower beds. Although I’m sure some of her flowers will show up again in a future Personal Photo Project.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve roses.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #76 Beta
More pictures of my Grandma’s flowers…
More pictures from the Whispering Beauty Series tomorrow.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #76 Alpha
Whispering Beauty
This actually started out to just be pictures of my Grandma’s peonies, but it encompassed several of her flowers at the time I photographed them.
Here are more pictures from the Whispering Beauty Series.
More pictures from my Grandma’s garden tomorrow.
Slice of Life Vol. 58
I think that at least a couple of these pictures were taken by Carla as you can see her reflection in the bank window.
Also, if anybody was curious what my patio chairs looked like when they were in good shape (or before the shabby chic look), you will find them in 1 of these pictures as well.
