Time to share a second collection of photos from the Howard Family Photo Shoot from a few months back. The sun was super harsh that day. As it absolutely always seems to be. But I still think we managed to do some good work.
Next Formal Portrait Sunday will be another collection of senior pictures from Kyle.
I lost the Howard account in 2020, but they did come back to me in 2021. We took a road trip up to Cedar Falls and did their annual family photo shoot on in a park which name now escapes me.
Here is the first collection of images from the day:
Next Sunday’s formal portraits will once again involve Kyle’s senior pictures.
The pictures in the folder 2010-10-17 is a collection of images from the fairly annual Howard Family Photo Shoot from 2010.
By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve a road trip to Kalona I took with my Mom.
I need to start today by wishing Jesse a happy birthday. Happy birthday Jesse!
I could post a thousand pictures of Jesse from thousands of adventures we shared. But you only get 5 and have to imagine the rest.
Jesse, I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be!
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Today’s collection of recreated old-timey postcards are of buildings that were built to house white collar criminals. Banks. Some of my best friends are bankers. One of my closest blood relatives is a banker. But you know my commitment to the truth. They are all white collar criminals.
One of the buildings still holds bankers. The other one houses local Klan meetings, I would guess. I’m not going to go into much history of these buildings. The building that currently houses U.S. Bank, replaced a building that was destroyed by fire in 1914. Construction on it was finished in 1916. You will notice in the original postcard, that there is no brown beltcourse on the building. That was added in the late 1970s when the addition was added to the east side of the original building.
I can literally tell you nothing about the other building. It has never made its way to the National Register of Historic Places. It is the second tallest building in Boone, if you don’t count the grain elevator. If you do, I’m not sure which is taller.
The postcards for the Boone National Building:
13597 Boone National Bank Bldg. Boone, Ia – Redux
Boone National Building – Modern Interpretation
The postcards for the building I will always call Citizen’s National Bank:
First National Bank Building – Boone, Ia – Redux
U.S. Bank – Modern Interpretation
Something I’ve noticed in the old-timey postcards is that they they like to throw a flagpole with a big American flag on top of these buildings. I don’t know if these flagpoles ever existed. But the current U.S. Bank Building is the only one that still has a flagpole on top of it.
There are a couple of old-timey bank postcards out there to recreate. I’m sitting on the fence on those. One is because I’m still trying to convince myself of the location of one of those buildings. More research!
I should start by saying Happy birthday to Kalista. So, happy birthday Kalista!
I hope it is a very happy birthday indeed!
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It is time for the 9th and nearly last installment of pictures that were triggered by Elainie’s homecoming!
I do believe that when you are from Iowa and you marry somebody from California, you are legally obligated to have your picture taken in front of corn.
One final collection of Elainie Homecoming pictures left to go!
This is it! The final collection of pictures from the 2010 Howard Family Photo Shoot! Included in this collection are some behind the scenes candid type photos, which you know are my favorite. Plus the infamous port-a-potty photos. I’ll include my theory on why Jesse wanted these pictures taken as well.
Okay. Up next are the infamous port-a-potty images. My theory on why Jesse makes Kyle and Jeremy pose for these images is because he is testing them. I think this is his way of saying, “How much do you love my daughter? Do you love her jam into a port-a-potty and have your picture taken with me much?”
If it is a test, they passed.
I’ll also add, this port-a-potty reeked. Absolutely reeked!
While it should be noted that Jeremy is pretty much locked into the Howard family for life now, there is still time for Kyle to jump ship. But instead, he jumped into a smelly port-a-potty with 2 other dudes.
This brings us to a small collection of candids. My favorites. It is like the tagline from that old MTV show, “The Real World”.
How about Taylan, getting through this photo shoot on crutches!
This last picture I will post with only the comment that Jeremy has already made his commitment.
I wonder what the pandemic will do to the 2020 Howard Family Photo Shoot. I do not know, but I do know that there will be a new Howard joining the family by then!
Time to check in with the Howard Family Photo Shoot of 2019 once again. We’re almost to the end of the photo shoot, but not quite. There will be one more, slightly smaller collection to come.
This collection is very heavy with Jesse. He appears in every single image, which is what the masses have been clamoring for all along.
There is one more collection of Howard pictures still to be curated and then at that point, we will take a big step towards being done with the 2019 backlog. It won’t be done, but man will it be close. Like the end will be in sight!
We have hit another milestone in the history of “An Artist’s Notebook”. Post #3751. I would normally make these statistical look back at the past type posts on even numbers, but I felt you guys were probably chomping at the bit to see the entries for RULE OF THIRDS.
This blog/online journal burst onto the world on August 9, 2006. Nearly 14 years later, it is somehow still around. That is success of some kind. At least it is perseverance.
As you know, I like meaningless statistics. That is what these posts are usually about. That and to take stock as to how I’m doing with my original mission to:
#1. Write in it.
#2. To be truthful as possible towards my true thoughts and feelings.
#3. Produce something that makes me worthy of having a pretentious sounding journal title like: “An Artist’s Notebook”.
I’m going to say that I continue to manage all 3. You probably wouldn’t know if I was being honest with you on my thoughts and feelings anyways. You’ll just have to take my work for it.
The last time we looked at these stats in Post #3500 on October 4, 2019 these were the 10 most popular categories on “An Artist’s Notebook”:
10. Photography – 311 Posts
9. Teresa – 312 Posts
8. Carla – 314 Posts
7. Shannon -351 Posts
6. Black & White – 390 Posts
5. Weekly Photo Challenge – 394 Posts
4. Jesse – 404 Posts
3. Animals – 477 Posts
2. Portrait – 516 Posts
1. Flowers – 537 Posts
Here are the current “standings”:
MOST POPULAR CATEGORIES
10. Mom – 332 Posts
9. Teresa – 338 Posts
8. WPC – Submissions – 342 Posts
7. Carla – 354 Posts
6. Shannon – 384 Posts
5. Jesse – 455 Posts
4. Portrait – 491 Posts
3. Animals – 554 Posts
2. Black & White – 568 Posts
1. Flowers – 594 Posts
Back in October, these were the 10 Most Popular Not People Categories:
10. Art – 243 Posts
9. Nature – 260 Posts
8. Personal Photo Project – 261 Posts
7. Road Trip – 288 Posts
6. Photography – 311 Posts
5. Black & White – 390 Posts
4. Weekly Photo Challenge – 390 Posts
3. Animals – 477 Posts
2. Portrait – 516 Posts
1. Flowers – 537 Posts
Here are the current “standings”:
MOST POPULAR NOT PEOPLE CATEGORIES
10. Naima – 263 Posts
9. Photoshop – 285 Posts
8. Art – 287 Posts
7. Nature – 303 Posts
6. Road Trip – 308 Posts
5. WPC – Submissions – 342 Posts
4. Portrait – 491 Posts
3. Animals – 559 Posts
2. Black & White – 568 Posts
1. Flowers – 594 Posts
I anticipate by the time we get to post 4,000 Black & White will surpass Flowers. Especially considering I’m giving some consideration into breaking Flowers down by flower type. All that would be one beast of a job.
Back in October, these were the 10 Most Tagged Humans:
10. Jen – 222 Posts
9. Vest – 234 Posts
8. Willy – 238 Posts
7. Derrick – 267 Posts
6. Jay – 294 Posts
5. Mom – 300 Posts
4. Teresa – 312 Posts
3. Carla – 314 Posts
2. Shannon – 351 Posts
1. Jesse – 403 Posts
These are the current standings:
10 MOST TAGGED HUMANS:
10. Jen – 243 Posts
9. Vest – 247 Posts
8. Willy – 258 Posts
7. Derrick – 284 Posts
6. Jay – 312 Posts
5. Mom – 332 Posts
4. Teresa – 338 Posts
3. Carla – 353 Posts
2. Shannon – 384 Posts
1. Jesse – 455 Posts
It is strange that the Top 10 Humans is almost identical. Except Carla has passed Teresa.
You may be wondering, what does it take to improve my Photography 139 Score? How do I get on the big board by the time Post 3750 comes around next August-ish?
1. Submit pictures for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
2. Assist or pose for photo projects.
3. Be related to me.
If you are wondering who is just outside of the top ten? The 3 people just outside of the Top Ten are Kim, Sara, and Logan.
But what are the most popular pictures and galleries of this website?
Currently, there 74,942 files in the Photography 139 Gallery. That takes up 450.88 GB of storage space on the SmugMug servers.
Over time, it is historically difficult to determine what is the most popular photos and galleries. I can only track statistics for the last 365 days. But for the last 365 days, these are the most popular albums:
TOP 10 PHOTOGRAPHY 139 ALBUMS (POPULARITY BY VIEWS)
These are the 10 Most Popular Images (by Views):
I’m surprised that THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT is still so popular, since I haven’t touched it in over a year. But I do hope to get back to it. In fact, I have purchased a few things to make it possible to get back to THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT while safely physically distancing. So if you are interesting in being a victim… err… a subject. You know where to find me.
We are really getting down to the nitty gritty of the 2019 backlog. Yet, at the same time, we have a really long ways to go. With that in mind, you’ll probably see lots of the Howards in the next several days. Not as many Howards as Stenslands, but still lots of Howards.
Here is the third set of images from the 2019 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
Much more of the Howards still to come!
I need to start this post by announcing that the Sharp family is making laundry detergent like crazy and donating it to area food banks like IMPACT and the Toreador Pantry.
However, they need more laundry detergent jugs, so they have set up a garbage can at the end of their driveway where people can donate jugs for them to fill. No jug is too small or too big.
You can find the donation dropoff spot at the end of their driveway.
The live at 1005 South Division Street in Boone. Basically keep going south on Division Street until you can’t go any farther. There will be some photos of their work shared at a later point.
Thanks to anybody that donates!
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Happy birthday to Kelly! She doesn’t subscribe to this blog, so she will never see this, but happy birthday anyways:
I hope it is a great birthday!
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Time for another collection of Stensland pictures I took when Elainie came home last fall:
A reminder that I love the candid pictures that I take between the posed pictures so much more than I do the posed pictures. But that is maybe just me.
So much more coming from Elainie’s homecoming.
