Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
A quick housekeeping note: for the last couple of months I haven’t been able to email people with a Gmail account. If you have written me and I haven’t written back, I have tried, just Gmail security has been dumb. However, on Friday, I believe I finally got all the… Read More »WPC – WEEK 352 – CHILDREN
A few weeks back I got together with Jayton again to take some more senior pictures. Here is the first collection of my favorites from that photo shoot: Next Formal Portrait Sunday I will share a final collection of pictures from the Baugher Family Shoot.
Back at the end of last year I cruised around the counties of Buena Vista and Palo Alto counties harvesting their town signs. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images I took on this trip: I still have one more collection of auxiliary images to share from this trip… Read More »Buena Vista and Palo Alto Aux – Vol. 1
On Day 2 of my trip to Miami Beach for the Computer Mine I had a little bit of free time in the evening to do a little street photography in the blocks around our hotel. One of the first things I learned was it would take 10 minutes (at… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 2 – A7II
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson Back in early may I bought some geranium hanging flower baskets for my front yard. Here are some pictures I took of the geraniums. I think hanging geranium flower baskets in my front yard is going to become traditional. I like… Read More »So Does Hope – 2022
Back in December I met a fairly short trip (by TOWN SIGN PROJECT standards) to Iowa County to harvest their town signs. This is a collection of the auxiliary images I took while there, but there are a bunch at the beginning from Newton. Next time we hit the open… Read More »Iowa County Auxiliary Images
A few weeks back that I headed up Emmet County to harvest their town signs. It is a small county with only 6 incorporated towns. Here are some facts about Emmet County: + Population is 9,322 making it the 79th most populous county in Iowa. Below Clarke County and above… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: EMMET COUNTY
FLOWER has proven to be a pretty popular theme. I’m always not sure how these things will go because I know more than a few people that just absolutely HATE flower photography or as my forthcoming book will be called, flowertography. Not only do they HATE flower pictures, they in… Read More »WPC – WEEK 351 – FLOWER
I thought this Sunday I would get back to Formal Portrait Sundays, but today didn’t unfold how I planned at all. Not even a little bit. Instead, I’m going to share some pictures I took with the real camera on the first day of my work trip to Miami Beach.… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 1 – A7II
A few weeks back I met up with Jen and the rest of the Gorshes (sans Derrick) to watch Evie dance at the Renaissance Fair. I took a few pictures of the event. Here are some of my favorites. At some point, I’ll share the rest of the pictures from… Read More »Celtic Dancing Fair
On Tuesday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. It was month of random prompts and I think for the most part, there is some good work mixed in with mediocre work. The kind of thing you get with a Photo A Day Challenge.… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – May 2022
Here is the third and final collection of tulip images from Pella I took back at the beginning of May. A garden I would like to visit in the future is the Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden, but it is only open to the public from 12-2 on Fridays.… Read More »Still Laughing – 2022 – Collection 3
After what was a fairly inactive April, I seemed to be constantly on the move in May. That possibly resulted in an interesting collection of images for THE SELFIE PROJECT. Here are some of my favorites from May: May 1 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7… Read More »SELFIE PROJECT – MAY 2022
A few weeks back I headed up to Dickinson County to harvest the balance of their town signs. I could spend more time than I did photographing the Iowa Great Lakes area, but I will head back there at some point to spend more time there. Here are some facts… Read More »Town Sign Project: Dickinson County
I am back from my road trip. I have to say that I saw some of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen. I can’t wait to share them with you in 3-4 months. HISTORY proved to be a deceptively popular theme despite the holiday. Most people still seemed… Read More »WPC – WEEK 350 – HISTORY
If you are reading this, I’ve chosen to go on a road trip this morning and don’t have access to a computer to publish all the submissions I received for HISTORY. I will publish those submissions when I get home later tonight. But just because I’m not around doesn’t mean… Read More »WPC – WEEK 351 – THEME REVEAL
Going to take a Sunday off from Formal Portrait Sunday, mostly because I got a bit busier or lazier than expected. Therefore it seems like a good time to share some pictures I took a few weeks back when I went to Nevada to watch Kyle and Jayton and Tyler… Read More »Boone Track
At 7 AM on my birthday I loaded up on to a plane and flew to Miami Beach for the annual Computer Mine Convention. It is the biggest convention of the year for Computer Mine customers. They don’t come just to see us, but they come to see our competitors… Read More »CMC – Miami Beach
Here is the rest of the collection of pictures from my trip harvesting the town signs of Pottawattamie County and Harrison County. All of these were taken in Harrison County. Modale Mondamin Magnolia Logan Woodbine There used to be a Dairy Sweet in Boone in my youth. I know they… Read More »Pottawattamie and Harrison County Aux – Vol. 2
It is time once again to share some tulip pictures from a trip I took to Pella back on May 1. This is the second of three collections. While I wasn’t able to go see the tulips in Orange City this year I do hope to photograph the lilies at… Read More »Still Laughing – 2022 – Collection 2
The day I harvested the town signs of Pottawattamie County and Harrison County I started from Nate and Laura’s place in Manhattan, Kansas. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip: Beattie, Kansas Council Bluffs Crescent Council Bluffs McClelland Neola Persia Missouri Valley I have one more… Read More »Pottawattamie and Harrison County Aux – Vol. 1