Jul 29 2011
This Personal Photo Project was to photograph around an Amish farm on my trip to Kalona with Sara, Cousin Amy and the Funk.
Here are a few more pictures from the farm.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project involves lilies.
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Jul 28 2011
A lot of pictures of the old Greene Street house and cakes.
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Jul 27 2011
Back in the middle of June I made a trip to Minnesota with Jim. There were several great moments on the trip, but I will just cover two of the events in this entry.
The first is a tale of when I went to see Super 8 with Jill. Since I’m slightly too lazy to re-write this small adventure, I’m just going to copy and paste from an email I sent Jen.
On Saturday, Jill and I went to see Super 8 at the Mall of America Theater. Why the Mall of America Theater? Because it was the closest theater to Eagan that Jill knew about.
As I was buying the tickets for the show, the woman at the box office asked me if I wanted the “Dbox seats”. I wasn’t really sure what that meant, but there was a sign on the box office that said something about VIP seats and that got you access to beer and wine. I assumed that is what “Dbox seats” were and we didn’t need access to beer and wine. So I told her that regular seats were fine.
The tickets were 6 bucks a piece, which I though was cheap considering that the last time we went to a movie, it was $10 a piece. But, I figured that maybe we got matinee prices since it was a Saturday and it was somewhat in the afternoon.
We were nearly late to the theater as the line for the concession stand was slow moving and going to the movie was kind of a late decision based on the fact that it was raining. So when we got to the theater most of the good seats were already taken. However, there were a couple of seats available in the back row. So we sat in the back row.
We hadn’t been situated for more than a few seconds when an usher approached us and asked to see our tickets. I handed them over and she said, “It would cost you an extra 8 bucks to sit there. You can sit in the blue seats.”
It was then that I noticed that we were sitting in a red seat. The last 8 rows of the theater were all red seats.
Most of the blue seats that were in the middle of the theater that weren’t smashed up against the screen were taken, so we took some side seat and watched the movie from a weird angle.
So here is the object lesson from this story. I will not be going to a movie at the Mall of America Theater again. A theater that has 1st and 2nd class seats.
The second event was going to Target Field to watch the Padres play. It was the first time I’ve ever seen the Padres play, so that was exciting. Here are some pictures from the trip.
Next Wednesday’s random photo collection will be from my fence building project.
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Jul 26 2011
This week’s pictures come from:
Backup/Old My Pictures/Photoshop
Okay, maybe my Photoshop skills have increased slightly. Although I still kind of like the picture of Jay screaming.
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/Old My Pictures/Project Universe
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Jul 25 2011
Only 2 pictures this week:
Next week’s theme:
That is a new theme for this year. Night photography can be the most difficult and most rewarding kind of photography. So get out at night and bring a tripod, or at least find a way to stabilize your camera. It also wouldn’t hurt to use your camera’s timer. Hopefully we get a few submissions for this interesting category.
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Jul 24 2011
The rest of the pictures from my trip to State Center with my Mom.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve a recent trip to Kalona to dine with an Amish woman.
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Jul 23 2011
More pictures from my trip to State Center with my Mom.
More pictures from the Sorrow and Gladness series tomorrow.
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Jul 22 2011
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.
Jul 21 2011
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.
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Jul 20 2011
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.
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.
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