Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
Here is the March image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture is of the Wagon Wheel Bridge west of Boone, Iowa. It collapsed after being hit by an ice flow. The remainder of the bridge was torn down just this week. I took this picture on the day… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar March
Mostly flowerS in the folder named 06-08-07. Next week’s folder is all over the place. Flowers, soap making, the town of Grinnell.
Here is the February image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture was taken in the Minnehaha Falls Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This picture and more specifically, all the pictures I took in this series are as close as I came to dying (as far as I know) this… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar February
Here is the January image for the 2017 Photography 139 January Calendar: This picture was taken in Peas Creek in Ledges State Park. Which is a few miles south of Boone, Iowa. This part of the creek is a few hundred yards south of where Davis Creek empties into Peas… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar January
I spent the last few days designing the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar. The design of this calendar is different than the last several years in a few different ways. 1. This isn’t a flower photography only calendar. There are flower pictures, but they are the minority. 2. Gone is all… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar Cover
A few weeks back I took Nader down to Des Moines for his birthday. We bummed around the downtown area and then met Jeff, Yin, and a couple of Baiers for lunch at Mad Meatball. Here are a few pictures from the bumming around phase of the day: We also… Read More »Nader Day
There wasn’t as much LOVE in the world this week as one would have hoped. I’ll just hope that when we get to HATE, it isn’t a more popular option. But it is the world that we live in. But you don’t want to listen to me talk all tommyrot… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 63 – LOVE
Mostly pictures of my niece playing softball in I think, maybe Gilbert. Next week’s walk down memory lane seems to be flower oriented.
(Editor’s note: Pretend like I published it on the day I intended.) It is Black Friday. My least favorite day of the year. The day where my faith in humanity has to be reset as mass-consumerism runs amok. People fight each other. Sometimes kill one another, so they can save… Read More »Howard the Spider
I didn’t get around to wishing people Happy Thanksgiving this year through my normal channels. So, if you are used to getting some kind of message from me on Thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas (for example) but didn’t get anything from me this year… don’t lose heart. Nobody didn’t get nothin’… Read More »Happy Thanksgiving!
A few hollyhock photos I took in June. More backlog coming to a blog post near you.
Do you need a place to get a good Thanksgiving meal? I know a place. Check out the picture below: You can come to my church between 11-1 and we’ll hook you up. If you don’t know where we’re located, it is easy to find. The Boone First United Methodist… Read More »Free Thanksgiving Dinner
Participation rates may have dipped again slightly. The cool night air maybe zapping some motivation. Possibly. It even happened to me a bit this week. I was going to take my photo Saturday night and then fell asleep. Then I was going to do it Sunday night, fell asleep on… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 62 – NIGHT
A long time ago, Joe and I hopped in the Camry and went to Marshalltown for some pizza. On the way back we stopped at the State Center Rose Garden. It was late in the evening, so I didn’t get as many images as I normally do. I will have… Read More »State Center Backlog
As I was leaving the Junck farm a few months back I spied this guy hanging around by their driveway. I’m not going to identify the species of this guy because I know there is somebody out there waiting to say, “Well actually it is a 13 lined ground squirrel.”… Read More »Squirrelly
On Sunday, after church, I grabbed my camera to walk around the church to grab some STILL LIFE moments for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. It seemed like a beautiful day, so I thought I would walk around downtown Boone a little bit before meeting the family at the Chinese… Read More »Chance with Necessity, Randomness with Determinism
Here are a few STILL LIFE photos that didn’t make the cut for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Thanks for taking the time to mock this collection of pathetic losers!
There weren’t a whole lot of takers for STILL LIFE. Must have been a depression of some kind out there. But you don’t want to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you want to see the submissions. Here they are: Kim Barker Bill Wentworth Angie DeWaard Stephanie… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 61 – STILL LIFE
Some flower and McHose Park action in this collection: Looks like some softball pictures, next time we get together for this look down memory lane.
Last Sunday Shannon asked me to run a Photo Booth for her church’s party. It wasn’t exactly what I imagined, so I way over prepared, but that is cool, because it ended up being easier than anticipated. Here are a few pictures from the day: It was a very impressive… Read More »Harvest Vineyard Photo Booth
It gets dark at like 4:30 now and I was incredibly tired last night. So I only have pictures of hanging up the first mural and not many: I wish I had pictures of the other murals to post, but you’ll have to trust me. They are really coming along.… Read More »Old Salvation Army Building Wall Phase #2 Gamma