Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
The following images come from: Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts All these pictures were taken at a Majors Family Reunion, not a Bennett Family Reunion, but.. whatever. The strangest thing has dawned on my while I was looking through these pictures. For the first time in my life, I am looking forward to… Read More »The Archives: Edition Sixty
It is the time of the year known as March Madness. That, of course means it is also time for me to run my annual NCAA Tournament Pool. It is open to all interested parties (I’ll take a few uninterested parties as well) regardless of their basketball knowledge. After all,… Read More »Roundball Oracles Year 8
Whispering Beauty – 2012 Peonies are perhaps my favorite flower that I don’t own. I’ve been considering remedying that recently, I’m just not quite sure where to put them in my yard. They are also the one flower I think that just begs you to go crazy with the saturation.… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #108
True few people will care about such things, but I feel that every once in awhile, I should write about my equipment. I recently bought a new camera. It had been about 3 years since I bought a camera, so I was well past due. Since the last time I… Read More »Sony Alpha DSLR SLT A35
The images below come from the following folder: Backup/My Pictures/People/Display Pictures These pictures were mostly old IM profile pictures or pictures from our pregnancy blog. Next week’s folder will be: Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts
Can Upset Stomach If Eaten in High Quantity This week’s project was to photograph some of my grandma’s chives. More pictures from the Can Upset Stomach if Eaten in High Quantity Series:
As most of you know, I’m an anti-Apple kind of person. It isn’t the products themselves I’m against, it is just that Apple people drive me up the wall. However, there is one instance where I actually do have a small amount of envy for Apple people. That is that… Read More »Lightbox
The images below come from the following folder: Backup/My Pictures/New Folder The majority of these pictures come from a concert my friend Mike’s band (Lesser Known Saint) had at the M Shop. I remember telling Mike after the show how much I loved watching him “dance” on stage. He got… Read More »The Archives: Edition Fifty-Eight
I continued this project for one full week, until January 15th. On that night, my Mom’s health took a very drastic change for the worse. Enough you know at least some of the details of where we were and where we are now, that I won’t go into them here.… Read More »Self-Portrait Project: Week 2
Rebels This week’s project was to photograph my Mom’s columbines. More from the Rebels Series: Columbines are a very photogenic flower. I’ll have to revisit them again next year.
I have had an army of people take care of Naima while my Mom has been in an out of the hospital the last few months. I am in the debt of all those people: Jay Jason Gary Logan Alexis Johnathan Amy Herrick Carla Teresa Jim Jordan Jesse Plus, I’m… Read More »Even More Naima
The image below comes from the following folder: Backup/My Pictures/Misc/Roads Next week’s folder will be: Backup/My Pictures/New Folder
Valentine’s Day 2012 If I were in the frame of mind to send out Valentines this year, it would have involved this picture. Of course, I wasn’t in such a state of mind, so you get to see it late, but as they say, that is life. I also played… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #105
It is possible the “big mouth” picture is me, but I’m going to rule that it is Carla.
Shannon contacted me about contributing some photos to the wall near her desk at the United Way of Story County office a couple months back. I was able to get those pictures ordered for her and she got them on the wall a couple weeks back. I don’t have a… Read More »United Way Wall
The images below come from the following folder: Backup/My Pictures/Misc/Pop Art Once again, I created a folder named “Pop Art” and put next to nothing in it that could be remotely defined as Pop Art. Next week’s folder will be: Backup/My Pictures/Misc/Roads
Portrait of a Dog I Know It is pretty well established that I like pictures of animal noses. This was simply a picture of Naima’s nose. However, since this is notoriously difficult to photograph, here are a few other attempts at dog nose from the Portrait of a Dog I… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #104
These negative were pretty wonky to say the least, but sometimes that creates interesting results.