Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
Today I’m going to share a set of postcards of the Boone Post Office I recreated. A government building that wasn’t attacked by domestic terrorists who have brainwashed by a misinformation ecosystem that can’t handle that their messiah, got his ass handed to him in an election. Despite the fact… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – POST OFFICE
I recently drove around Marshall County to harvest all the town signs there that I am missing. One of the things I like to do is visit any historical markers that are on my journey. If I know of a particularly interesting (or in this case tragic) historical marker that… Read More »Town Sign Project: Marshall County
A couple weeks back I took Rodan139 for a flight around the Humpback Bridge. It was probably too late in the evening so some of the images have too much noise for my liking, but that doesn’t mean that there still isn’t plenty there for the liking. Here is some… Read More »Rodan139: Humpback Bridge
This is the final week of the Hall of Fame THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE themes. TRANSPORTATION is a good way to end it, I suppose. 66! That is the number of weeks in a row we have hit double digit submissions! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 277 – TRANSPORTATION
Figured today would be another good day to share more pictures from when I travelled to Manhattan, Kansas to take pictures of the Millers. This was meant to be more of a formal portrait, but turned out to be candid portraits, which is perfectly okay, by my standards. Got plenty… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 2
All the pictures in the folder 2010-06-05 are pictures of Derrick and Jen while Jen was pregnant with Evie. This was a part of a series of images we took to document Jen’s pregnancy as part of a PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. Here are some of those images: By adding these… Read More »2010-06-05
I’m not the type of person that makes New Year’s Resolutions. So I don’t have any for you. Originally I was going to include a bunch of year in review stuff here. However, we are closing in on Post #4000 pretty soon, so I don’t see a need to do… Read More »Dubuque Monument
Here we are, the last day of 2020. That means it is time for me to share the December image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar. Because of the pandemic, I got to deliver very few calendars in person this year. I think the only reactions that I got to… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – SOME CHURCHES
The November image of the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar is actually a combination of 3 panoramic images taken with Rodan139. Something that was rekindled in 2020 was a love for panoramic photos. However, it is hard to include such an image in a calendar, so I combined 3 of them… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: POLK COUNTY
The October picture from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken out at the Ensley Farm. It was taken during harvest season while the combines were out in the fields. It was taken on October 18, 2020. Here are the photo details: DETAILS CAMERA: Hasselblad L1D-20c LENS: 28mm f/2.8 FOCAL… Read More »Rodan139: Downtown Boone
The September image for the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar is a picture of an orange gazania that I sprayed down with a water bottle. This gazania was grown in the Photography 139 Flower Garden. It is one of the bucket flower pots that lives in the front yard next to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 276 – ROAD TRIP
The picture for the August in the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken after the derecho devastate a good chunk of Iowa. It was taken of the elevator in Luther with a fisheye lens. It was taken on August 11, 2020. Here are some details on the photo: DETAILS CAMERA:… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 1
The July picture for the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken by Rodan139 of the High Trestle Trail Bridge looking east early one morning. This picture is the one that I’ve gotten the most feedback on from calendar recipients. It was taken on August 30, 2020. Here are some details… Read More »2010-06-01
I need to start by wishing everybody a Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Many of us (me included) aren’t having our typical Christmas, or even the Christmas that they remotely wanted. Remember it is okay to feel a mixture of feelings today, because this isn’t the Christmas you wanted. Maybe it… Read More »Merry Christmas – 2020
Happy Christmas Eve everybody! This is always my favorite worship service of the year. However, it is just one of the many things taken away by a horribly mismanaged pandemic. But I thought I would share a picture from the 2016 service as hopefully a reminder of what is coming… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Boone FUMC
The April image for the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar is a butterfly perched on a zinnia in my Mom’s yard. It was taken on August 16, 2020. Here are some details of the photo: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS: FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro FOCAL LENGTH: 50mm APERTURE: f/5 EXPOSURE: 1/80… Read More »Town Sign Project: Dallas County
The March image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken at Badger Creek Recreation Area. It was taken in the sunflower field there. It was taken on July 25, 2020. It was taken with a Lensbaby lens. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS:… Read More »Rodan139: Community Thanksgiving
The February image for the Photography 139 2021 Calendar is a macro photo of my favorite flower, the moonflower. It is taken with a flash ring. It was taken on July 28, 2020. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS: FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro FOCAL… Read More »WPC – WEEK 275 – COLORFUL
The January image of the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken in lower Ledges. It was taken on January 4, 2020. It was taken shortly after a recent snow fall. One sad part about the printed version of this picture in the calendar is that the picnic table gets cut… Read More »Kanoa at 1!
As I’ve started to distribute the Photography 139 2021 Calendars, it is time to start revealing the pictures that made the cut: Front Cover The front cover image is an HDR image of Naima wading into the pond at Dickcissel Park while the sun goes down in the west. It… Read More »2010-05-30
Today’s THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT subject is the Champlin Memorial Masonic Temple. It now houses the Boone Historical Center. I didn’t look to deep into the history of this building because I watch a lot of History Channel and I don’t want to get on the bad side of the… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Masonic Temple