I had forgotten that I had went back to Madrid after RAGBRAI had left their town and took a picture of the art that Madrid put on their streets to greet the RAGBRAI riders. I will get more into what Madrid and other towns did for RAGBRAI when I get… Read More »Rodan139: Madrid RAGBRAI Art
I’m leaving for Omaha later than I anticipated, so I did have time to get this post out on time. ART! A great theme! But did it make a large number of people feel ARTistic enough to submit? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM… Read More »WPC – WEEK 414 – ART
Time to start sharing the auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Dubuque County. Dubuque County includes Dubuque, which is one of my favorite towns in Iowa. Most of the pictures in this collection were taken in Dubuque. Worthington Fillmore Graf Dubuque Still plenty more pictures from… Read More »Dubuque County Aux. – Vol. 1
WARNING! NEXT MONDAY I WILL BE ON THE ROAD, SO NEXT WEEK’S POST WILL PUBLISH LATE AND THERE MIGHT NOT BE ANY REMINDERS. PLAN ACCORDINGLY! I need to start this post by wishing Russ a happy birthday. Happy birthday Russ! I hope you have lots of visitors today! +++++++ I… Read More »WPC – WEEK 413 – NEGATIVE
This is the final collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Des Moines & Louisa County. I really found Burlington to be photogenic and would like to go back there and spend some time photographing it. Also, and not unrelated, there is a stop on the… Read More »Des Moines & Louisa County Aux. – Vol. 5
Time for the 4th collection of images from my road trip to harvest the town signs of Des Moines & Louisa County. Most of these pictures are taken in Burlington and a good chunk of them concentrate on a road that is… well it is very crooked. Still one last… Read More »Des Moines & Louisa County Aux. – Vol. 4
Today is Russell’s birthday, so I need to wish Russell a happy birthday, so happy birthday Russell! I’m not sure I’ve seen Russell in person since before the pandemic. That seems like something that should be remedied. Either way, I hope your birthday is filled with all the joy you… Read More »Des Moines & Louisa County Aux. – Vol. 3
This post isn’t a new food adventure. This is a place I’ve eaten at frequently, but I don’t think I mention it enough and I feel like I should put on record that I love me some Rico’s Tacos! Sometimes I take them for granted and I certainly don’t hit… Read More »Taco ‘Bout It: Ames Field Work
Time to share a third collection of found art that I’m calling THE BOONE ART CENTER PROJECT. Like the first two galleries, most of these pictures were taken from Old-30 east of Boone of artwork painted on the side of railroad cars. However there are a couple pieces that were… Read More »Boone Art Center Gallery Three
There is one week left to enter the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Monica created this sweet social media artwork to post: Here is the link to the Entry Form: Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Entry Form Thanks again Monica! I hope at least a few of you decide to enter! +++++++… Read More »The Windy City: Day 5
Just a reminder that the deadline for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest is coming up, but there is still time to enter: Thanks to Monica for making the sweet graphic for social media posts! ++++++ For rules and the entry form, go here: Time to share a second collection of… Read More »Des Moines & Louisa County Aux. – Vol. 2
Tuesday has traditionally been the day I share images from Rodan139, but frankly I’m currently out of Rodan139 photos to share. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to take some more. My schedule this week with both work and getting free 3-D sculpted Iowa State artwork and hopefully trying… Read More »Des Moines & Louisa County Aux. – Vol. 1
Time for a second collection of images from THE BOONE ART CENTER GALLERY PROJECT. Once again, all of these images were taken slightly east of Boone on Old-30. I’m not sure when I will have enough images to share a third gallery, but I bet it won’t be too long.
I never actually cracked out the “real” camera on Day 4 of my work trip to Chicago. It was the first day of the Big Convention and it was a 13 hour work day. It was also by far the busiest day in the Computer Mine Booth, so I didn’t… Read More »The Windy City: Day 4 & 5 Phone Pictures
Today is Jay’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Jay! I hope your birthday is as magical as this photo that was done completely in camera. What am I saying? I know your birthday was magical! You spent a good chunk of the day… Read More »Boone Art Center Gallery One
I have a confession to make here. When I decided to combine cell phone pictures with the “real” camera pictures into the same posts, I would have made my life a lot easier if I had realized that I hadn’t changed the clock settings on my camera after Daylight Savings… Read More »The Windy City: Day 3C
Time to share another collection of images from my road trip to Lee County & Van Buren County to harvest their town signs. All of these pictures are taken in Van Buren County. In the villages of Bonaparte and Bentonsport. Bonaparte Bentonsport So let’s talk a moment about The Mason… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 4
Another chance to clean up the backlog. These pictures were taken in October of last year but never really fit into any “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. Some were alternate images for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some, I just took when I was out and about. Always feels good to get… Read More »But I Don’t Think That’s True
Time for the second collection of images from Day 3 of my work trip to Chicago. The final day of any real photography… for the most part. The rest of the days were filled with work… boring work. When we left off, Lowell was feeding birds in a park street… Read More »THE WINDY CITY: DAY 3B
Time for another collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Lee County and Van Buren County. This collection begins in Lee County and then ends in Van Buren County. This reminds me, who wants to hit up Stanhope Watermelon Day with me? July 15! Keokuk I… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 3
Back in mid-May I loaded Jesse and Nader up and hit the road for my annual birthday road trip. This time, the main thing I wanted to see was the Orange City Tulip Festival. I’ve been to the Pella Tulip Festival a few times, so I wanted to see how… Read More »Flapjackin’: Orange City Field Work