Perry Bennett, Photographer

@csetheredge BTW, just posted a big update!

@csetheredge You're welcome! LOL

New lighting on the House side of the #WVCapitol going in, not sure about the Senate side, but ITS THE WRONG COLOR TEMP. This should be daylight balanced to match the blue/white color of the Sun, not 3000K color. The new fixtures are amazing, love the added light, but wrong color

With that said, this is still a really nice upgrade overall, and the additional light [LITERALLY *5X* MORE!] is extremely welcome.

While the uplighting color was changed, the lamp color is still the more orange 3000K causing a bit of a split color, but the more powerful uplight overwhelms it a bit. In a perfect world, those LEDs in the lamps would be replaced to match the uplights so its more harmonious.

It was my honor to take this photo of Judge Copenhaver in my office in the basement of the #WVCapitol back in 2016 for the "West Virginia Blue Book."

@csetheredge The biggest problem with keeping them at 3000K is the "blue" sunlight coming into the Rotunda and it not mixing well with the Tungsten-color temp, making it look even MORE orange. If it was all by itself, it would have been okay! :)

@csetheredge 2700K would have been even warmer, which is a no-go. We've settled on a middle-ground at the moment, at 4,000K, which is (pretty much) right in the middle of Daylight and Tungsten.

@AmyMSummers 😅😅😅

@PerryB_Photo Perry, counting on you! Get the bulbs changed!!

Listen, the additional light is INCREDIBLE, and MORE THAN WELCOME. It just needs to be the right color temp.

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Did you know that Mother's Day was created by Anna Jarvis, a West Virginian, and the first Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, WV in 1908? Happy Mother's Day to all of *my* "adopted moms" out there, the women I look up to, and to all of my friends who are moms.

This is incredible. The new @NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!

Fun fact of the day: The @wvlegislature FY2027 Budget Bill, SB250, has more "a's" in it than zeros. #TheMoreYouKnow

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Maestro Maurice Cohn conducts the @WVSO for their 2025-26 Season Finale this weekend for THREE performances across the state of West Virginia. ***As a side note, I've been trying to get this shot for YEARS, and finally got it during tonight's rehearsal! How cool is that?!***

Paging @usembreykjavik ! We stopped by for a photo this morning, and brought home the Gold Medal this afternoon at the 2026 World Photographic Cup!

MAJOR UPDATE! @OurPPA #TeamUSA brought home the GOLD as overall winners of the 2026 World Photographic Cup in Reykjavik, Iceland!!!