Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
The following images are from the folders 04-22-08, 04-25-08, and 04-26-08: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery I was able to restore these historic An Artist’s Notebook entries to their original glory: LITTLE WHITE LYE PRODUCT ENDORSEMENT PART 3 AMES JAYCEES SANDBOX FILL The soap pictures were… Read More »04-22-08, 04-25-08, 04-26-08
Since the weather outside has been turning less frightful, I’ve been trying to take Naima on a walk or at least an adventure about every day. At last week’s Friday Night Supper Club, I nearly nodded off after consume massive amounts of Casey’s Taco and Hot Sausage pizza, while watching… Read More »No! Not Bird Defecation AND Excretion!
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is ARCHITECTURE: ARCHITECTURE An ARCHITECTURE photo is a photo of a building or a part of a building. That is basically all there is to it. As many of you may know (and by many I mean very few) I… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – ARCHITECTURE
This is one of probably 2 entries for An Artist’s Notebook about my Saturday morning last. This is about the later part of my morning, but you must know a little bit about the early morning to understand how this strange turn of events happened. The earliest part of my… Read More »Miller Estate Auction
On Friday and Saturday of last week I did a little bit of Town Sign harvesting. The full story will follow the new signs, but I’ll just say that I on both trips I made some (by my standards) pretty cool discoveries. Elkhart, Iowa Huxley, Iowa Cooper, Iowa Jamaica, Iowa… Read More »The Town Sign Project: Vol 5
The world wasn’t ready for these GOVERNMENT pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer. Here are GOVERNMENT alternates: If you are wondering why the bird photos are considered GOVERNMENT, it is because those pictures were taken… Read More »You Ain’t Never Been in My Book and I Got a Problem with It, Why? ‘Cause You Acting Like You Read My Pages!
After a couple big weeks of participation, this week took a nosedive. Big time. Apparently not many people we open to the wide world of GOVERNMENT photography. That is okay, maybe better luck this week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 136 – GOVERNMENT
Last Sunday the Methodist Men had our annual Chicken Noodles Brunch. I took a few photos of the event: You may recall that the weather last Sunday was less than idyllic. Loads of snow dropped on the metropolitan Boone area and the temperatures were cold as well. The turnout for… Read More »Cluck Cluck Noodles
The following images are from the folder 04-19-08: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following classic An Artist’s Notebook entries to their original glory: LITTLE WHITE LYE BONUS SPRING GAME If you want to check out more pictures from Iowa… Read More »04-19-08
On Good Friday I descended upon downtown Des Moines to take a picture for Page 105 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Take a photograph that could only be taken today, not yesterday or tomorrow. I took off from the Computer Mine early on Good Friday and went to Des Moines… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 105
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is GOVERNMENT: GOVERNMENT A GOVERNMENT photo is any photo that relates to either an agent of the GOVERNMENT, a building of the GOVERNMENT, or a product of the GOVERNMENT. Get off the couch and get your camera in your hands.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – GOVERNMENT
Time to hit the backlog again. Here are some family pictures we took when Elainie was in town… back in March… 2017. Unfortunately, the weather was terrible that day, so we were trapped inside. Hopefully, next time we do a family portrait, the weather will be more cooperative. +++++++++++++ A… Read More »One of Nature’s Masterpieces
On Saturday I took a small road trip west of Boone to collect some more signs for the TOWN SIGN PROJECT. Here is what I got: Ogden, Iowa Beaver, Iowa Grand Junction, Iowa Churdan, Iowa Jefferson, Iowa Paton, Iowa Dana, Iowa Alleman, Iowa Full disclosure, the Alleman sign picture wasn’t… Read More »The Town Sign Project: Vol. 4
The world wasn’t ready for these SIGNS pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world can handle them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: Beaver, Iowa – The jewel of Boone County. Grand Junction, Iowa – The jewel of Greene County Jefferson, Iowa – They have an… Read More »I’m a Doctor with No Job. Me, I Don’t Have No Patients. I Keep Pacing Back and Forth, I Keep Racing.
Another big week for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. People didn’t let the weather stop them from harvesting all sorts of SIGNS pictures. This week the Photography 139 empire stretched as far north as downtown Boone, Iowa. As far south and east as Kentucky. As far west as Folsom, California. There… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 135 – SIGNS
A couple Sundays back I met Suzie at the Des Moines Art Center to take in one of Des Moines’ most underappreciated attractions. The Des Moines Art Center is actually one of my favorite art museums that I have ever visited. It’s collection is surprisingly impressive and to top that… Read More »An Afternoon with O’Keeffe, Hopper, Basquiat, and Suzie
The following pictures were located int he folder 04-13-08: By adding these images to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following classic An Artist’s Notebook journal entries to their original glory: SHAVE AND A HARICUT VEISHEA LWL PHOTO SHOOT The majority of these pictures were taken… Read More »04-13-08
On my recent sojourn to Marshalltown, I was able to collect a few more signs for the TOWN SIGN PROJECT. Mackey, Iowa Story City, Iowa Randall, Iowa Jewell, Iowa Radcliffe, Iowa Garden City, Iowa Gilbert, Iowa (Side 1) Gilbert, Iowa (Side 2) Most towns have multiple town signs. I only… Read More »The Town Sign Project: Vol. 3
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is SIGNS: SIGNS! Earlier in the week I described two hypothetical situations and gave an interpretation of what those SIGNS were saying. I want to backtrack on those. I believe these to be the correct interpretations of the hypothetical SIGNS.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – SIGNS
Here are a few Easter pictures from both the Rise of the Son Service and the breakfast that followed: Photo credit for the majority of these photos go to Jaxon. I’m still waiting for the day he submits a photo for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
The world wasn’t ready for these ROAD TRIP photos on Monday. The world still wasn’t ready for them on Tuesday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: After Jewell, I tooled through Ellsworth. From Ellsworth I moved onto Radcliffe.… Read More »I Get So Frustrated, Take A Look at What I Created, Time is Wasting and I Ain’t Waiting!