Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
Today I’d like to share a collection of images I took on a day the last time I took a “vacation” back in September. Most of these pictures are from my yard, but a few are from a little cruise I took around rural Boone County. Even though we had… Read More »Vacation – Misc.
This round of old-timey postcard recreations for THE POST CARD RECREATION PROJECT don’t really have a history lesson to go with them. They are simply a “bird’s eye view” of downtown Boone. Have a look: Bird’s Eye View of Boone, Iowa – Original Bird’s Eye View of Boone, Iowa –… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Bird’s Eye View
I need to start the day by wising Anders a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ A few weeks back I loaded up into the car with my Mom and Teresa as they joined me as I… Read More »Town Sign Project: Wright County
HOBBIES! People seem to love them and it is no surprise that HOBBIES was the 69th theme in a row to crack double digit submissions! It did it easy as well. In fact, this might be the record for most submissions ever in one week. The problem is, I don’t… Read More »WPC – WEEK 280 – HOBBIES
I thought I would have posted the second and last collection of pictures of Amanda and Logan well before, but life happens. So here is the rest of the images of Amanda and Logan before she gave birth to Dahlia shortly thereafter: I look forward to a day when we… Read More »Amanda and Logan – Pre-Dahlia No. 2
There weren’t actually a ton of pictures in either the folder 2010-06-14 or 2010-06-17, so I went ahead an combined them. Most are just taken around my yard, around the time that I was trying to tear the hedge out in my backyard. A terrible and long process. But so… Read More »2010-06-14 & 2010-06-17
I’d like to just start with saying how completely impressed I was with Amanda Gorman, this nation’s first ever youth poet laureate and the poem she read at the inauguration on Wednesday. Wow! Goosebumps. I was one the people that rushed to Amazon and pre-ordered her book and made it… Read More »Loess Hills Road Trip
Today we are going to focus on the birthplace of (for now) the most famous person to ever come from Boone. The former First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Her birthplace is one of only two birthplaces of First Ladies that have been made historic sites. The other is the birthplace… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Mamie Doud Eisenhower Birthplace
A couple weeks back, on the same day that I harvested all the town signs I was missing for Carroll County, I continued west and also harvested all the signs I was missing in Crawford County. That ended up being less than I expected. I didn’t find anything of real… Read More »Town Sign Project: Crawford County
August 9, 2006. That was the date where I first took keyboard in hand and began typing out the blog that I entitled “An Artist’s Notebook”. I entitled that first post “First Journal Entry”. The categories for that first post were “Blogging”, “Contests”, “Jay”, and “Sara”. This is the first… Read More »Post #4,000
I need to start by noting that today is the day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I’d like to share a teaching on The Good Samaritan from the last speech that King ever gave as my small part of honoring his legacy today: Let us develop… Read More »WPC – WEEK 279 – COMMERCIAL
A couple months back I met Alexis at McFarland Park to take some pictures of her shortly before she gave birth to Anela. While 2020 was a cesspool of terrible, I did add two great-nieces to my family. In Anela and Dahlia. Here is the first collection of Alexis pregnancy… Read More »Alexis Prego Uno
There were a ton of pictures in the folder 2010-06-13. Some were from Johnathan’s Graduation Open House. Some were from Shannon’s Birthday Camping Trip. Others were of frogs. Even others were of insects. It is a truly great folder! By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was… Read More »2010-06-13
A few months back, I took a dead zinnia down to my basement, lit it and then lit it up. I believe Jesse and Anders were standing by as potential firefighters. Even though, they didn’t understand why I was starting even the smallest fire, inside my house. Here are the… Read More »Light it Up!
The subject for this week’s POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT is the Boone County Courthouse. Here is some information on the Boone County Courthouse from the Boone County Government website: Boone County was organized in February of 1847. It was named for Nathan Boone, the youngest son of Daniel Boone, who had… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Courthouse
I recently drove through Carroll County to harvest all the signs in Carroll that I was missing. I didn’t run across any interesting historical markers in Carroll County, so might as well just get straight to it. Here is a look at the Carroll County Photo Map. Once again, the… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: CARROLL COUNTY
A few weeks back, I took Rodan139 for a little flight around the Des Moines River Valley. Just off the boat ramp that is next to US30. It was a little late in the day, so it was a short flight before it got dark, but still got plenty of… Read More »Rodan139: Des Moines River Valley
Here it is! The first week of Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I asked people to submit a picture that showed what they think, when they think of FAMILY. For the 67th week in a row, we had double digit submissions! But you didn’t come here to listen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 278 – FAMILY
I need to start this post off by wishing Lowell a happy birthday. Happy birthday Lowell! I hope it was as happy as you wanted it to be! +++++++ Here is another collection of pictures from when I travelled to Manhattan to take pictures of the Millers. These are mostly… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 3
There were a literal ton of images in the folder 2010-06-05. Nearly 700. So adding the pictures that belonged in the gallery to the gallery, was no small feat. Now, don’t worry, I’m not going to post all of those images. It would be well over 100. That being said,… Read More »2010-06-05 Part 2
Back during the week of Labor Day, I took a week of vacation. I believe it was the only full week of vacation I took in 2020. One of the things I did while on vacation was take a road trip out to the Loess Hills. My ultimate destination was… Read More »Loess Hills