Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
I wasn’t able to make it up to Pella to deal with the very “delightful” Pellians this year because of the virus, but I did get a few chances to take tulip pictures here and there. But mostly the here and there was my Mom’s flowerbeds. Here are some tulip… Read More »Still Laughing – 2020 – Alpha
No problems breaking double digits this week. 36 straight weeks! I didn’t even have to send out reminder text messages this morning. People were all over SIGNS. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Elizabeth Nordeen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 247 – SIGNS
A weird thing is happening in Boone tomorrow night. Boone is having a Black Lives Matter event. I have to say that I am pretty shocked. Boone isn’t exactly a bastion of diversity, but is has had an important place in other civil rights fights. Don’t forget that the first… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 6
The pictures from the folder 2009-11-30 are from when I started a project I called THE PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. That was a challenge of mine to get out the camera once a week and tackle photo ideas that had been percolating in my brain. I had found I was becoming… Read More »2009-11-30
Hey, I screwed up the schedule of posts and 2 posts accidentally posted at the same time yesterday. This one, that I took back down and re-posted and another one with daffodils. It is possible that you didn’t get the post about the daffodils yesterday. If that is the case,… Read More »Suds, Dickcissel, and Lensbaby Redux
Today is Jorge’s birthday! Happy birthday Jorge! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you hoped it would be! +++++++ Here is a quick update on Naima. Her surgery went well. The mass they removed from under her shoulder was even bigger than expected, but Dr. Stephanie said that… Read More »Before the Swallow Dares – 2020
Today, a little after 8 AM, I dropped Naima off at the vet for surgery. She has a fatty deposit growing under her right shoulder that is getting pretty gigantic. Hopefully by the time this publishes, she will be out of surgery and I’ll be getting the phone call that… Read More »Be True
A couple weeks back, I spent several hours, off an on in my Grandma’s garage going through things that the family was getting rid of. One of the fortunate things about Grandma’s house is that it is staying in the family. Therefore, this isn’t quite the rush to get rid… Read More »A Garden of Love
You are probably wondering why this post didn’t come out at 12:01 PM, on the nose. The reason is simple, my website broke overnight. It didn’t exactly break, but it stopped being able to produce new information. The Photography 139 is build on love, passion, photography, God, and support for… Read More »WPC – WEEK 246 – FRIENDS
On our Sunday worship service (on KWBG) we honored our graduating seniors with a video that is a compilation of the the seniors discussing their future and their favorite aspects of Boone First United Methodist Church. I acted as something of a clearinghouse for the video. I collected all the… Read More »Senior Sunday – Garrett – Volume 3
I need to start this post by wishing the happiest of birthdays to my bro Nate. Happy birthday Nate! Truth is, I just hope Nate gets a good nap on his birthday! +++++++ The pictures in the folder 2009-11-23 are from a trip I made with the family to Kansas… Read More »2009-11-23
Day, I think 45 of working from home. Not sure I’ve discovered any other positives of working from home, this week. But… I finally started working on the basement. I did take some before pictures and I will post them when the project is done. I do know that I’m… Read More »The Baugher Wedding – Three
The tree-shrub-bush that is right in front of my front door recently was the home to a robin’s nest. I managed to take a few pictures of the transformation from eggs, to nestling to a fledgling that hangs out in my cherry tree in the backyard. The picture from egg… Read More »Holy Astringent Plum-like Fruit!
I need to start by wishing my mother-in-law Colleen a happy birthday. Happy birthday Colleen! I hope your birthday was amazing! All the best people were born in May! Can you imagine being born in a different month? +++++++ This is the final collection of images that were triggered by… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 10
I only have one image to share today. It might not seem like much of an image at first glance. It is just a wet gazania. But this is a focus stacked image. It took 63 pictures just to combine all of them into this one image. I repeat, it… Read More »#63
I need to start out by wishing my brother-in-law the happiest of birthdays! Happy birthday Jason! I almost starting to think that these birthday tributes need to be more than 5 pictures! I hope it was the happiest of birthday Jason! +++++++ It is time to unveil the second collection… Read More »The Baugher Wedding – Two
I have been asked how I did my SELF-PORTRAIT for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Well, here is a quick run down. For starters, I laid a green screen down on my driveway. Then I took Rodan139 357 meters above sea level and set the camera to take time lapse pictures… Read More »Falling Green Screen
I should start by saying Happy birthday to Kalista. So, happy birthday Kalista! I hope it is a very happy birthday indeed! +++++++ 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… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 9
Yesterday there was a glitch with the program that sends out post notifications. Therefore, the emails got sent out like 8 hours after the post was actually posted. Hopefully I have fixed that problem, but won’t find out until this publishes! I apologize for today’s subject. It is one of… Read More »Disgusting!
I need to start by wishing everybody a happy Memorial Day! Today is a unique Memorial Day, as we honor both our military personnel that have died in military service and the over 100,000 Americans that have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, we will be in a better place… Read More »WPC – WEEK 245 – SELF-PORTRAIT
It is Senior Sunday! Time for another stirring volume of senior pictures! It is once again Taylan’s turn in the rotation! Still several weeks of Senior Sundays to go!