Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
I recently went over to my Grandma’s house with my Mom to take a picture for Page 117 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. I don’t usually explain what the directions for the page before I unleash the picture on the world, but I’m going to explain the theme first this… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 117
Hitting up the 2018 backlog, thought now would be a good time to share some miscellaneous pictures from the Sunday of the 2018 Pufferbilly Days. Trying to get these out there before this year’s Pufferbilly Days festivities kickoff in a couple of weeks. Bethany brought Nora down for Pufferbilly Days.… Read More »Last Pufferbilly Days
Usually I don’t like to get this late into a month before I publish my favorite photos from the previous months SELFIE PROJECT, but I guess I’ve been busy and I’ve really been trying to be diligent with hitting up that 2018 backlog. I don’t know that I did anything… Read More »Selfie Project – July
This is the final collection of pictures from my trip to the Indianola Balloon Festival in 2018. I didn’t make an appearance at the Balloon Festival in 2019, so I’m sure I’ll have to make an appearance in 2020. In fact, I’d like to actually take a balloon ride in… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 3
Much to the chagrin of floraphobes like Russell Kennerly, FLOWER proved to be an exceedingly popular theme. Possible the most submissions ever for one theme in the 6 year history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. There is even a first time submission from Elizabeth. At the Computer Mine there is… Read More »WPC – WEEK 205 – FLOWER
The Iowa State Fair is almost over. While this publishes I should be at the Iowa State Fair having recently picked up the photos I entered in this year’s Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. They’ll be nice and packed up. Ready for the trip home. Ready to be placed in… Read More »Iowa State Fair Photography Salon Results
This is final collection of Iowa State Fair pictures from 2018. Published just in time for the close of the 2019 Iowa State Fair. I’ll be spending the day at the Iowa State Fair solo today as all 4 of the people that were going to go with me all… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2018 – Misc.
The pictures in the folder 2009-05-06 are of Shannon paying off a wager that she lost… to me. I feel bad calling it a wager, because she didn’t really stand much of a chance of winning. Well she had one chance when I think about it. We wagered on the… Read More »2009-05-06
Last Saturday night Jay, Willy, Jesse, and I piled into the Sir Pixalot-mobile and headed down to Des Moines for a dinner that had absolutely nothing to do with Jay’s dinner. Anybody that says that the very delicious dinner we took down had anything to do with Jay’s birthday is… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 31
Here is the balance of my flower pictures from my trips to the Iowa State Fair in 2018: I have one last collection of 2018 Iowa State Fair backlog pictures coming your way.
As I continue to try and catchup with my 2018 backlog, this collection is of pictures of flowers I took at the Iowa State Fair in 2018. At is long established that one of my favorite parts of the Iowa State Fair is the Discovery Garden. That is where most… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – Flowers
You can still technically vote in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Poll right now, but it will shut down at some point today. So if you haven’t voted yet, then you need to get on it. By the time this post publishes, Baby Got Rack will have been judged and… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2018 – More Animals
There is 1 day left to vote in the polls that will determine what pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting in all 6 polls at once is too much for you, you can at least cast a ballot in the last poll. Hidden Treasures of… Read More »WPC – WEEK 204 – MUSIC
There are just a couple of day s left to vote in my polls that will determine what pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting in 6 polls at once in too much for you, you can vote in one of the Hidden Treasures of Bone… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – Animals
There are only 3 days left to vote for what pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If you don’t think you have the time or energy to vote in all 6 polls right now, you can vote for one of the Nature polls right now! Nature Set… Read More »2009-04-28 & 2009-05-01
There are 4 days left to vote for what pictures I will enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If it is too much for you to take on all 6 polls at once, you can vote for the poll for one of the Nature entries below. At this point… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 27
There are now 5 days left to vote for what pictures I will enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If it is too much for you to take on all 6 polls at once, you can vote in the Photojournalism poll below. At this point, there is a clear… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – DNR
Reminder, there are 6 days left to vote for the pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting for 6 photos at one time is too much for you, you can vote for my Photoshop entry below: If you are ready to vote in all 6 polls,… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 2
It is time once again for you to help select my entries to the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Polls will close next Tuesday. All you have to do is vote in each of the 6 polls below: Photoshop Photojournalism Nature – Flower Nature – Misc. Hidden Treasures of Boone County… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Voting
LETTERS OR NUMBERS was another solid week! Hitting double digits for submissions for I think the 5th week in a row. I’ll check my math on that at some point in the future. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you came… Read More »WPC – WEEK 203 – LETTERS OR NUMBERS
The pictures in the folder named 2009-04-24 are from when Jesse and I went to Tom Harkin’s office and met with a member of his staff to encourage him to support ending the civil war in Uganda. We were very pleased with ourselves and decided to celebrate afterwards by meeting… Read More »2009-04-24