I hate the phrase “things happen for a reason” more than I hate any other phrase in the world. That doesn’t mean that I don’t necessarily believe in fate, but for the most part I don’t like fate. Its plans run contrary to my plans, no matter how hard I… Read More »Giant Steps
As you may recall, I like to check in on some statistics every 100 posts or so to see how things are doing in popularity. However, this statistical check-in will mark the end of an era. I am officially retiring the Snapshots Gallery and the Artistic Gallery. The advent of… Read More »Post 1200
This also seems to be a pretty random collection of photos. Some of these pictures were taken by Teresa. These pictures come from: Backup/Old My Pictures/New Photos Sadly My Photoshop Skills Haven’t Improved This is the 1st picture I ever had accepted to the State Fair. This autographed picture was… Read More »The Archives: Edition Twenty-Six
Seems like most of my folders have a subfolder named New Folder. This New Folder contains some pretty random pictures. Some of these were taken by Carla. This week’s folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/New Folder Next week’s folder will be: Backup/Old My Pictures/New Photos
There are 3 very special people that were born on July 12 and they are each worthy of their own individual birthday photo tribute. So I will start from youngest and go to oldest. Here is my photo birthday tribute to Logan:
This “gold mine” of pictures came from: Backup/Old My Pictures/McFriends Most of these pictures came from a slide show I had to put together for an Evil Clown Empire “Crew Rally”, but there is inexplicably some Halloween images mixed into this folder. Next week’s folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/Minnesota Vacation
These pictures come from the following folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/Family/2004 McHose I think these pictures are fairly self explanatory. IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST Next… Read More »The Archives: Edition Fourteen
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Family/2004 B&W One of the things I take from these pictures is that I have progressed in my knowledge of lighting quite a bit. Plus I owned a pretty terrible scanner. IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE… Read More »The Archives: Edition Thirteen
Movie – Exit Through the Gift Shop Director: Banksy Starring: Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Thierry Guetta, Space Invader and Rhys Ifans Theater – Bennett’s Union Street Theater – Boone, Iowa Companion – Flying Solo Food – I had dinner with Nader at Mongolian Buffet. Intellectual Honesty & Baggage Sometimes I feel… Read More »Movie Reviews: Exit Through the Gift Shop and Restrepo
These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/2005 Calendar I’m pretty sure these are the files from the 2nd year of the calendar, although it is possible that it was the 3rd or 1st year of the calendar. My records on such things are spotty at best. In the early days… Read More »The Archives: Edition Two
It is hard to believe that this journal has reached entry 1,000. Since I enjoy rather meaningless statistics, I’m going to go over a few right now. According to how many times they have been viewed, these are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Artistic Gallery: 1. Gazing Ball… Read More »Journal Entry One-Thousand
It is my habit to not comment on the pictures I post in this project, but I’m going to make a small exception here. In the first couple of pictures, Carla is sitting on the old abandoned well in the basement of our old house on 415 Greene Street. I… Read More »Slice of Life Vol. 30
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 after a number of Americans were murdered by the military during the Pullman Strike. After the massacre, President Grover Cleveland made reconciliation with unions a top political priority. Making Labor Day a national holiday was his form of reconciliation. I celebrated Grover… Read More »CLU’s Holiday
A few pictures from my trip to the State Fair with Nader. We met up with Mom, Carla and Alexis. Later we met up briefly with the Baiers. I won them some Upper Iowa University band aids. I’m guessing their “Thank You” is in the mail. At the end of… Read More »State Fair Trip 2 – Collection 1
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” -Abe Lemons Sunday was my Mom’s retirement party. Here are a few pictures: There are more pictures from the party in the Mom’s Retirement Party Album.
Every 100 or so posts, I like to make a list of the most popular pictures on this blog. Here is the list of the 10 most popular photos in the Artistic Gallery. 1. Outburst of the Soul 2. Self-Portrait 3. Jen Relaxing Between Sets 4. Grizzly McAlpine 5. Rebecca… Read More »Post No. 850
I broke Day 9 into two post because of the large amount of pictures, if you recall. You are about to see the rest of those pictures. After all the flowers were planted, we all went our separate ways to wash up. Then the family reunited at the Stensland home… Read More »Vacation Day 9B – Mother’s Day Early
I’m going to split my final day of vacation into two posts due to what could be a large amount of photos. After church on Sunday I went with my Mom to Northwest Greenhouse to get new flowers for the yard. I prefer perennials because I don’t really want to… Read More »Vacation Day 9A – Some Color
Here are the submissions for last week’s theme, feet. Included is a new first time contributor – Alexis. That is good, because there seemed to be fewer contributors this week. Perhaps the subject matter scared some people away. I know not everybody likes feet. After all, most feet are kind… Read More »RWPE #17 – Feet
