Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
After we left the Titanic Museum our next step before heading back to Dublin was to visit the Peace Walls. If you don’t know what the Peace Walls are, here is some info: The peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Belfast Peace Walls
Strong women stand up for themselves. Stronger women stand up for others. -Leslie Higgins But Thursdays are for flowers! This flowertography session took place in my yard. Next Thursday’s flowertography session will also take place in my yard!
Time for the final collection of pictures I took of the construction of the new arch that greets you as you enter or exit (depending what direction you are going) the downtown Boone business district. Gaze your eyes on the final collection: Looking at these pictures is an unwelcome reminder… Read More »Try Boone You’ll Stay
Time for the final collection of images I took on my trip to the 2025 National Balloon Classic with Teresa and Ernie. This is the smallest collection. It covers the drone show that was at the end of the evening. Gaze upon the pictures of the drones: If you have… Read More »2025 National Balloon Classic – Eta
#INSTAGOOD! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! I hope you are interested as I am to see the peak of people’s photography skills this week! Also, there was a good amount of people that sent their submission before… Read More »WPC – WEEK 576 – #INSTAGOOD
I made 3 trips to the Iowa State Fair this year. They were the same traditional trips I seem to make every year. 1 trip to see the O’Gorshes dance. 1 trip to assist a team with the barbecue contest. 1 trip to pick up my photo contest entries. My… Read More »ISF 2026 Food: Trip 1
Pufferbilly Days is over and I can finally exhale. It was a lot of work for me and a ton of work for all the people that volunteered their time to help out. But that is a list for another time. This is a post where I share the winners… Read More »2026 Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Results
Last Friday when we left off Andy and I had boarded the final remaining White Star Line ship in existence. The Nomadic. This collection will be the final collection of images from the area of the Titanic Museum, but very far from the end of the Day 3 images. Very… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Nomadic
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. Satchel Paige Thursday “An Artist’s Notebook” titles is going to take a turn for about 10 weeks or so. But really Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography session took place in my yard.… Read More »Ain’t No Man Got to Be Common
Last Wednesday I started sharing images of the construction of the new arch in Boone. When we left off, I was still wandering around taking pictures on my lunchbreak. But this collection will end after I came back after work to see the finished product. To my surprise, it wasn’t… Read More »…You’ll Stay
Time for the second to last collection of images I took to Indianola to take in the sights of the 2025 National Balloon Classic with Ernie and Teresa. This collection features a lot of the musical act that performed that night. One more collection of images left to share!
FOR NEXT WEEK’S THEME THERE IS A SPECIAL RULE! THAT RULE IS REVEALED IN THE THEME REVEAL SECTION OF THIS POST. PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO READ THE SPECIAL RULE! NOISY! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of… Read More »WPC – WEEK 575 – NOISY
We woke up in a hotel in Oklahoma City. It was one of those sweet spot hotels that had free breakfast. We knocked down some tasty vittles and then hit the open road for our final day on Route 66. Here are are the cell phone pictures from the final… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 6 Snaps
Clearing out some of the 2025 backlog. These images were taken in November of last year, but they never really quite fit into earlier “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. It is a collection of fisheye lenses taken of Bokeh and some rushed images of the Northern Lights. Not the pizza place.… Read More »Aroura Bokehalis
The Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest entries should all be on display by now. Which means you can now vote for the People’s Choice Award! You can do that by scanning the QR Code in the flyer below: Or you can click on the link below: People’s Choice Voting If you… Read More »Ireland Day 3: 1,517 Lost Souls
Bye-bye loveBye-bye happinessHello lonelinessI think I’m gonna cryBye-bye loveBye-bye sweet caressHello emptinessI feel like I could dieBye-bye my love, goodbye There goes my baby with someone newShe sure looks happy, I sure am blueShe was my baby ’til he stepped inGoodbye to romance that might’ve been Bye-bye loveBye-bye happinessHello lonelinessI… Read More »Bye, Bye Love
Back in late November last year Boone got a new feature. It was actually a re-imagining of an old Boone arch that used to be in Boone near the two passenger train depots. Passenger rail left Boone a long time ago. The depots both were torn down years ago. The… Read More »Try Boone…
Time for another collection of images from the 2025 National Balloon Classic I attended with Ernie and Teresa. Still 2 more collections of images from this sweet event left to share!
CONSTRUCTION! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 7, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Becky Parmelee – 3 weeks*2-Alexis Stensland – 4 weeks3-Suzie Brannen – 6 weeks*4-Linda Bennett –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 574 – CONSTRUCTION
Day 5 began in a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The hotel was too fancy pants to serve a free breakfast so we just hit the road and saw some of my top Route 66 items right away. The Land of the Giants! Here are the cell phone pictures from Day… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 5 Snaps
If all the pundits are right, by the time this publishes, Iowa will be pounding the new look Iowa State Cyclones in the 2026 matchup of the Iowa State Cyclones and the Iowa Hawkeyes. It is what some thinks is the logical conclusion of what happens when a football team… Read More »RVTV – 2025
