Category Archives: Event

Black Lives Matter – Boone – One

I will write more in depth about my experience at the Boone Black Lives Matter event on Monday. I stayed about 15-20 feet away from it with a mask on because of my deep virus concerns, but I was still able to get a fair amount of pictures.

My short version of the story is that it was a great event. There were a couple of right wing agitators there, but nothing came of them.

Here is my first collection of pictures from the event.


Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

Black Lives Matter - Boone

My best guess is that there were about 250 people there, but I’m really bad at making such estimates. However, the Boone New Republican article had a similar estimate.

I saw quite a few people I know, especially from my church, including Pastor Dave and his wife Shari. Kio, of course. Anna Olson, of course. Plus a few people who recognized me, but I didn’t recognize. The face mask thing does make it hard for people to recognize one another, but it is necessary, of course.

There are a couple more collections to come.

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A reminder that YELLOW is this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme:


WEEK 247 - YELLOW
YELLOW

A YELLOW picture is any picture where the subject is YELLOW or YELLOW is a major compositional element of the picture. I’ve already received a bunch of submissions, so I doubt I’ll have to send out any reminders on Monday morning.

Happy photo harvesting!

Biscuits & Gravy

All the way back in early March, the Methodist Men held their annual Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast. This wasn’t the last time that we had a worship service at Boone First United Methodist Church, but had to be pretty close to the last. Maybe one more or two more worship services at most. Everything is such a blur.

Here are a few pictures from the event:


Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast - 2020

I have to admit that we are starting to get pretty low on Methodist Men for a wide variety of reasons. We might have to start making some women honorary members just to have enough people!

Baby Triforce 1st Birthday Party – Gamma

The third and final collection of pictures from the Miller Triplets birthday party. I know, I’m sad about it too. Who knows when I’ll be able to get adorable triplet pictures again. Hold on to these times my friends.


Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

It could be a long time before I see any of these people again, so I guess Laura’s Snapchat stories and Becca and Bethany’s Instagram posts will have to be enough for now.

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This is your reminder that this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is EMOTIONS:



EMOTIONS

An EMOTIONS pictures is pretty simple. It is just a picture of somebody or something showing an EMOTION(S) or even a picture of something that stirs EMOTIONS in you would also work.

I get the notion that this might not be as popular of a theme. I’ve had zero submissions to this point. The last couple of weeks I have had a handful of submissions by now.

Get on it!

And.

Happy photo harvesting!

Baby Triforce 1st Birthday Party – Beta

You want even more pictures of the triplets first birthday party? Guess what. You came to the right location!


Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

Baby Tri-Force 1st Birthday Party

The one thing about having triplets is that there is almost enough babies to go around to all the grandparents and aunts and uncles. Almost.

One more collection of Baby Triforce birthday party pictures in the hopper!

Fly Iowa – The Reboot

Here it is! The 12th and final collection of pictures from when Fly Iowa was in Boone. Hope you enjoyed this collection of pictures nearly as much as I enjoyed taking them. I know Tamara did at least!


Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Exhales. Plenty of giant folders of images to curate still left in the backlog though.

If you want to go back and checkout any of the Fly Iowa pictures, click on the link below:

Fly Iowa – 2019

Probably going to be lots of Minnesota State Fair pictures in your future. Prepare yourself accordingly!

Fly Iowa X

Time for the 10th installment of pictures of when Fly Iowa was in Boone back in August.

Featured in this collection of photos is a plane that was painted to look like Air Force One. This airplane was the end of the show. Thank goodness because it flew around to that awful Lee Greenwood song. But more on the pilot and their terrible taste in music in a later post, probably.


Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Only 200 Fly Iowa pictures left to curate.

Fly Iowa Takes Manhattan

Time for the 8th thrilling chapter of pictures from Fly Iowa.

Here is one lesson want to give everybody from these pictures. Clean your sensor. Particularly if you are going to be taking, say 1200 pictures, with most of them against a blue background. Dust spots really show up against a blue background and they can be a pain to take out in Photoshop.

It can be intimidating cleaning your photo sensor, but it actually isn’t as hard as one would think. That being said, you definitely need the proper equipment. That is all I have to say about that… at this time.


Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Only 400 Fly Iowa images left to curate.

Fly Iowa: The New Blood

Day 4 of working from home in the books. Another positive about working from home that I’ve discovered is the extra sleep. I didn’t think I would sleep in, but it turns out, I sleep in about an extra 45 minutes. The weird part is that Naima also sleeps in later too. I wasn’t expecting that.

Let’s see how Day 5 goes…

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Here is another collection of images from when Fly Iowa was in Boone:


Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Fly Iowa - 2019

Yes, I thought it was weird that the pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen plane was white.

Only 500 more Fly Iowa photos to curate!