I recently took a Friday off from the Computer Mine and Jesse and I spent the day tooling around Benton County and another county harvesting their town signs. It was a very enjoyable road trip. Here are some facts about Benton County: + Population is 26,076. + The county seat… Read More »Town Sign Project: Benton County
This is the final collection of images of the trip I took to Audubon and Guthrie Counties with my Mom to harvest their town signs. All of these pictures are taken in either Audubon or Gray. Audubon Gray I know that this is the second straight day with a mention… Read More »Audubon and Guthrie County Auxiliary Images: Vol 3
I recently drove around the massive Tama County to harvest their town signs. It was a solo trip and I was surprised to discover that there are apparently many cities in Tama with Czech roots. I mostly think of the Meskwaki when I think of Tama County. That and the… Read More »Town Sign Project: Tama County
Here is the second collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Audubon and Guthrie County with my Mom. The thing is that none of these pictures were taken in Guthrie County and the biggest chunk of them was taken in Shelby County. That is #roadtriplife.… Read More »Audubon and Guthrie County Auxiliary Images: Vol 2
When we left off, I had just won 1st Place in Black and White and 3rd Place in Color at the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, but had been completely rejected by the Iowa State Fair for the 4th year in a row. Whatever I was selling, the judges were not… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 2
I recently drove around Marion County to harvest their town signs. Marion County includes two of the more famous Iowa towns, Pella and Knoxville. Here are some facts about Marion County: + Population is 33,309. + Pella is the largest city. + Knoxville is the county seat. + Named for… Read More »Town Sign Project: Marion County
Harvesting the town signs of Audubon and Guthrie County was one the last road trips I took with my Mom. I took lots of pictures that day, so I’m going to break it up into at least two posts. All of today’s pictures were taken in Guthrie County: Panora Guthrie… Read More »Audubon and Guthrie County Auxiliary Images: Vol. 1
Clarke County includes Murray, Iowa. The Murray town sign was the last town sign I harvested on the last road trip I took with my Mom. I recently returned to Clarke County to get the one town sign I was missing. Here are some facts about Clarke County: + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Clarke County
Today I want to share alternates for Week 295 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme was FACE. I took all these pictures I took on a trip to the Des Moines Art Center with Suzie and her friend Michelle. It was the first “public” thing I’ve done since my… Read More »Such a Pretty Show
Adair County includes Orient, Iowa. The Orient town sign was one of the town signs I harvested on the last road trip I took with my Mom. I had already taken pictures of most of the town signs in Adair County before going there recently to take pictures of the… Read More »Town Sign Project: Adair County
The folder 2010-08-23 is absolutely stuffed to the gills. There are so many images in there I almost considered breaking it up into a couple posts, but decided against it. There are pictures in there from a trip to the Iowa State Fair and pictures of Jen and Derrick when… Read More »2010-08-23
This is a collection of some more of the first pictures I took with the Tamron wide angle lens. some are at the courthouse. Some around the high bridges. Some around the Kate Shelley Museum: I do love that wide angle zoom lens! +++++++ This is your reminder that this… Read More »Wide Angling
Back in February I cruised around Hardin County harvesting town sign photos. This was a solo trip. These are some of the non-town sign pictures I took on the trip. New Providence – This round gym was recently featured in a movie. Gifford Union Whitten Eldora Steamboat Rock Ackley I… Read More »Hardin County Auxiliary Images
This is the third and final batch of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85. These (most of them) pictures were taken at the sculpture garden in downtown Des Moines. I still might get into the technical details of the Lensbaby Velvet 85 some day, but today… Read More »Even More of that Velvet 85
There was a decent amount of submissions for FACE this week. Apparently lots of you know a FACE or two that you like. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Kim Barker Kim Barker Kio Dettman… Read More »WPC – WEEK 295 – FACE
There aren’t many images in the folders 2010-08-13 and 2010-08-14 so I decided to combine them with the folder 2010-08-16 that contains many pictures from a trip I took to the Iowa State Fair. There are also pictures of Jesse and two of his progeny and of a moonflower. By… Read More »2010-08-13, 2010-08-14, & 2010-08-16
Here is another small collection of some of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85 back in January: I’m still going to go into some detail about what makes the Lensbaby Velvet 85 such a special unique lens at some point. Just not today. +++++++ This is… Read More »More of that Velvet 85
There was a decent amount of submissions for TRAVEL. It looks like several people left their house this weekend and had TRAVEL adventures. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Elizabeth Nordeen Jodie Cue… Read More »WPC – WEEK 294 – TRAVEL
Back in early March, I was in Des Moines, so I wandered around Graffiti Alley and took some pictures. I’m sure I’ll be back there to photograph it again at some point in the future.
Union County is the last county of I completed with my Mom. We went through a few counties on that road trip, so there are still a couple individual town signs from that trip to share, but Union County is the final county that we took to completion. I had… Read More »Town Sign Project: Union County
This set of Town Sign Pictures is from the last town sign harvesting road trip I went on with my Mom. We went through a couple counties on that Saturday. The first one was Madison County: Here are some facts about Madison County: + The population is 15,679. + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Madison County
