Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
I hope everybody had a marvelous Valentine’s Day weekend. I spent Saturday night seeing the last Academy Award Best Picture Nominee that I needed to see with Sara. We went to see An Education and then ended up at Skip’s, home of the best nachos in Des Moines. They really… Read More »Happy Valentine’s Day (A Day Late)
Daily Reminder Don’t forget to update your links, bookmarks and RSS Feeds to the new URL: http://www.photography139.com/notebook/ (500) Days of Winter This picture is an homage to one of my favorite scenes from my favorite movie of 2009 – (500) Days of Summer. Derrick posed for this picture when he… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 4
Daily Reminder Don’t forget to update your links, bookmarks and RSS Feeds to the new URL: http://www.photography139.com/notebook/ There is good news on the commenting front. Now when you leave a comment on this blog you will have the option of checking a box that will subscribe you to future comments… Read More »Happy Birthday to the Wentworth Warrior!
Daily Reminder Don’t forget to update your links, bookmarks and RSS Feeds to the new URL: http://www.photography139.com/notebook/ I did have a couple of late submissions for RWPE. Here are a couple of bonus FRAMING pictures. Julie Johnson Michael Vest I had an amazing weekend. I would just like to share… Read More »Amazing Weekend
Basic housekeeping: This page will be moving at the end of February. Don’t forget to update your links, bookmarks and RSS Feeds to the new URL: http://www.photography139.com/notebook/ Astute and technically savvy subscriber Angie did remind me that Blogger Dashboard is just an RSS Feed reader and anybody that follows An… Read More »RWPE #5 – Framing
Before I delve into this week’s PPPW, I want to pass along some sad (not real sad) and fairly technical news. The way I have always posted entries into this journal is through a blogging company known as Blogger. It is an awesome program and it allows me to write… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 3
As promised, here are some of the other pictures I took for RWPE #4 – Plants. I still need to tinker with a few of these, but I’m mostly pleased with the results.
Those with good memories will remember a few months back when I wrote a series of blogs about groups that I am in that have matching shirts. The keenly observant will recall that I said there were 5 such groups, but I only posted blogs about 4 such groups. I… Read More »A Phenomenal Week
These pictures were never in the running for RWPE #2 – Soothing, but I took them at the same time and keep forgetting to post them. I love fog.
Last week’s Random Weekly Photo Experiment Theme was PLANTS. It is exciting to have Julie Johnson as a first time contributor! Here are the submissions: IMAGE LOST JULIE JOHNSON Dawn Krause IMAGE LOSTJesse Howard Mike Vest Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett Shannon Bardole’s Artistic Appreciation Selection of the Week: Dawn… Read More »RWPE #4 – Plants
Funny Face Homage This is an example of completing two photo projects in one week. Long time fans of Jill and the keenly observant will note that she is wearing the same shirt as in Psyched Up (Not Out). That is because these pictures were taken moments apart. Another observation… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 2
Sometimes when I’m driving to the Computer Mine in the morning I eat an apple for breakfast. When I get out of my car I like to throw that apple into the woods before I descend into the Mine. I do this because I figure that the apple is better… Read More »Throwing Apples
I have been asked by a couple different people if I knew all 52 Themes for RWPE couldn’t I think ahead? The truth is that I could think ahead, but off the top of my head I couldn’t tell you what maybe 5 of the themes are that haven’t been… Read More »The 52 Themes
Last weeks Random Weekly Photo Experiment Theme was PEOPLE. Here are the submissions: Christopher D. Bennett Michael Vest Jesse Howard Becky Perkovich There were also a couple of different types of submissions. The first of the different types of submissions came from Shannon Bardole. Her submission breaks the one and… Read More »RWPE #3 – People
My new Friday tradition is to post my Personal Photo Project of the Week. This is not to be confused with the Random Photo Project of the Week that is posted on Mondays. The Monday pictures are random. The Friday pictures are personal. One of the goals I developed near… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 1
On Carrie’s birthday she requested that I take a few pictures of the Baier clan. Here are my favorite pictures from that day. But before we got too deep into these pictures I need to point out a couple of things. First, the addition of these pictures to the Friends… Read More »The Baiers
The photo assignment for last week was “Soothing”. Dawn Krause Michael Vest Christopher D. Bennett The subject for this week is “PEOPLE“. That is a fairly easy subject so hopefully a couple more people choose to participate.
I’ve often heard that the saddest thing in the world is unrequited love. Unsolicited love on the other hand… I’ve never been a Christmas card person. My thoughts on cards is that when somebody sends you a card, what they are really saying (with apologies to Mitch Hedberg) is: “here,… Read More »Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Pardon and Sanctify Me This cross stands on top of my church. It no longer looks like this because the it was painted during the tuckpointing process last year. The name comes from a classic hymn: 1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of… Read More »December
This is entry number 750 in this online journal. I’d like to take a little bit of time to archive some data. It is one of my peculiar imbecilities that I love meaningless statistics. Therefore, consider these statistics: Every journal entry falls into at least one of sixteen categories. This… Read More »Number 750
The Eternal Seductiveness of Life Because the calendar is a landscape medium, this picture actually appears in the calendar in landscape form with not much of the allium showing but the flower. It was originally taken in portrait orientation.