Time to share the second collection of auxiliary images from my road trip to Washington County to harvest their town signs. A few of these are still in Riverside. Which I consider to be a must visit for anybody that likes Star Trek.
Ainsworth
Crawfordsville
Olds
Wayland
Coppock
Still one more collection of images to share from this road trip!
Back in October I went on a Junk Jaunt with Carla and Teresa. I didn’t buy much, a few stickers here and there, but I did have a great time and saw many interesting things.
Here are some pictures from the day:
Hopefully we will be able to go on one of these again next year!
This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is SILENCE:
SILENCE! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
But what exactly is a SILENCE image? I mean you can make the case that all pictures are in SILENCE, but for this theme I urge you to really search out a place of SILENCE and capture your image there, while not breaking the SILENCE.
Happy photo harvesting!
Back in early July I took a day and tooled around Washington County harvesting their town signs. The two best things in Washington County is that it is the home of Riverside, which is the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. The other awesome part is it is the home of Kalona, my favorite town in Iowa to visit. However, I didn’t spend much time in Kalona on this trip.
Here is the first collection of images:
Riverside
There are many things up for debate in this world. But one thing that isn’t, is that the best captain the Enterprise ever had or will have was James T. Kirk.
Still more to share from this trip!
I need to start today by wishing my sister Teresa’s best friend and also a good friend of all of our family, Sheri a happy birthday! Happy birthday Sheri!
That is a picture of Sheri graduating high school taken by my Dad.
I hope your birthday is/was as awesome as you wanted it to be!
Time to share the last collection of images I took while on a road trip with Teresa to harvest the town signs of Allamakee County.
Harper’s Ferry
Yellow River State Forest
Waterville
The iconic Lansing Mississippi River Bridge can be seen in the movie THE STRAIGHT STORY. It is the bridge Alvin Straight crosses to get to Wisconsin to visit his brother.
The next county of auxiliary images we will visit is Washington County.
Time to share the second collection of images from my road trip to Allamakee County (and Clayton County) to harvest their town signs with Teresa. The first couple pictures are in Clayton County. The rest are in Allamakee County.
Hardin – Ghost Town
Waukon
Lycurgus
Lansing
There is still many more images from this road trip left to share. On the next collection I will talk about the bridge in the last picture that crosses the Mississippi River from Iowa to Wisconsin in Lansing. Enjoy it now, cause it won’t be around for much longer.
Back in June I cruised around both Clayton and Allamakee County harvesting their town signs with Teresa. It is truly the most beautiful part of Iowa and there isn’t a close second. But the Loess Hills are second.
All of these pictures were taken in Clayton County:
Volga
Elkader
St. Olaf
Monona
The St. Olaf Tavern finished in the Top 5 in last year’s Best Tenderloin Contest ran by the Iowa Pork Producers Associator.
There are plenty more pictures from this trip still to come.
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a holiday that celebrates the the great civil rights leader. If you have never had a chance to visit the Civil Rights Museum that is near where he was assassinated in Memphis, I highly recommend it.
I won’t wish you a “Happy” Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but I do hope that you spend some time today learning more about the civil rights struggle in this country. Cause it is very far from over.
REFLECTION! A popular photographic technique. But was it a popular WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out.
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 9, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week
2-Mike Vest – 1 week
3-Jesse Howard – 2 weeks
4-Sabas Hernandez – 4 weeks
5-Becky Parmelee – 4 weeks
6-Tamara Peterson – 10 weeks
7-Brandon Kahler – 21 weeks
8-Linda Bennett – 24 weeks
9-Sarah Toot – 25 weeks
10-Angie DeWaard – 29 weeks (3)
11-Dawn Krause – 33 weeks
12-Kim Barker – 39 weeks
13-Joe Duff – 40 weeks
14-Logan Kahler – 42 weeks (2)
15-Teresa Kahler – 51 weeks
16-Carla Stensland – 51 weeks (2)
17-Michelle Haupt – 52 weeks
18-Micky Augustin – 53 weeks
19-Andy Sharp – 54 weeks (2)
20-Bill Wentworth – 55 weeks
21-Cathie Morton – 59 weeks
22-Elizabeth Nordeen – 60 weeks
23-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 62 weeks
24-Kio Dettman – 64 weeks
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 25 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Mary Green (Iowa) – 1 week
Mary Green (Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 1 week
Sarah Toot (Nevada) – 26 weeks
Sarah Toot (Nevada)
Sarah Toot (Nevada)
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 11 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Nebraska) – 56 weeks
Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 52 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Iowa)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 61 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 30 weeks
Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 55 weeks
Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 54 weeks
Joe Duff (Texas) – 41 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 43 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 22 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Iowa) – 1 week
Cathie Morton (Iowa) – 60 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 52 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Kim Barker (Iowa) – 40 weeks
Sara Lockner (Iowa) – 1 week
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 34 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 63 weeks
Monica Jennings (Iowa) – 1 week
Mike Vest (Iowa) – 2 weeks
25 participants! That is another solid week!
We had submissions taken in:
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Texas
+ Nebraska
+ Nevada
Nevada was a new one for this year. Making this year’s list:
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Arkansas
+ Texas
+ Pennsylvania
+ Nebraska
+ Nevada
I took my picture in my yard. So once again, I didn’t venture very far.
I’m most excited about a newcomer to THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Nathanial Brown! He made his first ever submission! Nathanial is one of the most talented photographers I know. He was a judge the last two Pufferbilly Days Photo Contests and he got 3 photos in the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon.
Remember, you don’t have to be as talented or a professional like Nathanial to participate. Just a love for photography.
There were two huge milestones reached this week. Both Teresa and Carla reached the 52 Week Streak Club! Is it a coincidence that they are sisters? Is it a coincidence that they are my sisters?
But it wasn’t all great news. Suzie couldn’t extender her participation into a 2 week streak. Jesse’s 2 week streak is gone. Sabas’ 4 week streak is gone. Becky’s 4 week streak is gone. And Michelle’s 52 week streak is nothing more than a distant memory.
But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:
RED! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what is a RED image?
A RED image is simply an image where the subject or a major compositional element of the image is the color RED. That is simple enough!
While considering possible subjects for your RED image, meditate on the following quote and I’m sure you will come up with a great image:
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
-Bill Blass
I look forward to seeing your interpretation of RED!
The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge. There is a limit of 3 submissions per participant. To be considered the photographer, you have to be the one that takes the picture. Don’t be stealing the work of other artists. You can submit pictures for other photographers that took pictures with your camera or phone, but give credit where credit is due.
You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.
That is it. Thems the rules!
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of RED in this place that’s favorite shade of RED is cardinal next Monday.
Taking another Sunday to clean up some, but not all of the March images that I haven’t shared in the past. This will be a fairly short post, but there are more March images to clean up.
Some of these were alternate images taken for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. For the themes HOBBIES and GOVERNMENT.
Someday I’m going to get back to Formal Portrait Sundays. I swear this is true.
Full intellectual honest, I hate flippie floppies and don’t own a pair. The worst “shoes” ever designed by, I don’t know, the devil! I could write for hours about how they are terrible. They are so terrible, I don’t even like to see other people wearing them.
However, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the second half of the photo collection of me on a boat. Everybody look at me, cause I’m on a boat!
If you’re on the shore, then you’re sure not me, oh!
The next time we visit a county to look at auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT, we will visit Allamakee County.
Back in early December Carla, Teresa, and I went to Pella to experience their Krestmarkt. A Krestmarkt is a Dutch open air Christmas Market. It was pretty dang cold that day. If we would have went the day before the temperature was in the 50s. I think it was in the low 20s or teens when we were there. It was a pretty good time!
It was a great trip and I hope we make it back again next year. However, that wasn’t the end of the trip…
