The first day of October! No better day to share THE SELFIE PROJECT images from September. I freely confessed that I struggled with the project this month. Often forgetting to take my selfie until the last minute. I was insanely busy for parts of September, but I didn’t really go… Read More »Selfie Project – September 2025
Last Saturday was the annual Pufferbilly Days Parade. I was able to participate this year with Boone First United Methodist Church. I snapped a few pictures of the process. Have a looksie: Something I just noticed in the pictures. Whomever picked out the white flower to put in the stack… Read More »Parading with Boone FUMC
Pufferbilly Days is over and I can finally exhale. It was a lot of work for me and a ton of work for all the people that volunteered their time to help out. But that is a list for another time. This is a post where I share the winners… Read More »2025 Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Results
The second day of September! No better day to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from August. I managed to leave the state of Iowa in August. In fact August was an incredibly busy month. A month that I don’t think I will duplicate any time soon. I got to… Read More »Selfie Project – August 2025
I said last Sunday that this week’s food adventure was going to be about eating next to a lake. But I’m actually going to push that food adventure off for several weeks. Probably a couple of months. This week’s food adventure is about Tall & Meaty’s day competing at the… Read More »Tall & Meaty: Iowa State Fair – 2025
WARNING: I’M LEAVING FOR IRELAND TODAY AND I WON’T BE BACK NEXT MONDAY. I DON’T KNOW IF I WILL EVEN HAVE CELL SERVICE IN IRELAND, SO DON’T EXPECT ANY KIND OF REMINDER FROM ME THIS WEEK. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN! THINGS! What a great theme! But did enough people… Read More »WPC – WEEK 518 – THINGS
By the time this post publishes I will already have picked up my entries for the 2025 Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. So now it is a good time to share them. Selected for Display – Class 16 – Things & Still Life Selected for Display – Class 18 –… Read More »Baklaving It: Des Moines Field Work
This is it. The final collection of images I took at the Iowa State Fair. This collection of images were taken on my trip to the Iowa State Fair on the final day of the Fair with Nader. This is my favorite collection of images from last year’s Fair. It… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Sunset
The Iowa State Fair has officially started, so I can give you some clues as to what 3 pictures of mine made it into the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. Good luck finding them! The Iowa State Fair opened yesterday. This collection of images is the second to last collection… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Photo Pickup
We’re less than 2 months away from the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, so it seems like a good time to share the entry form for this year. You can download a .pdf of the form here: 2025 Pufferbilly Days Entry Form I did make a few small changes this year.… Read More »WPC – WEEK 516 – PEACE
This food adventure is a little bit different. This isn’t an adventure where I went and ate hopefully delicious food. This one, in fact, wasn’t even a full food adventure. The pictures here are from the recent Boone County Fair Barbecue Contest. Logan’s barbecue team Tall & Meaty competed. This… Read More »Tall & Meaty: BCF 2025
The 2nd day of August! No better day to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from July. In July, I actually managed to leave the state of Iowa! Twice! I am planning to leave the country in August, so I am doing some travelling these days. I think July was… Read More »Selfie Project – July 2025
One of my favorite places to visit at the Iowa State Fair is Pioneer Hall. I freely confess that part of this is nostalgia based on the fact that in my youth we spent much time in Pioneer Hall with my parents. This reminds me that if you are going… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Pioneer Hall Adjacent
Last time we left off on my trip to the Iowa State Fair on the last day of the Fair with Nader, we were wandering the Agriculture Building. This collection will continue there with pictures of some of the amazingly bizarre art and food competitions in there! It will end… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Art
Last Thursday I walked the Boone County Fair Parade with my church. I took a bunch of pictures of our float and some of the other parade participants. Here are the pictures: Parades! Boring to watch. But fun to be in!
FLOWER! What a great theme! But did enough people get their green thumb going to make it a popular theme? As of 12:01 PM on Monday, June 30, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: *1-Adam Gordon – 1 week2-Mary Green – 1 week3-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks4-Jesse Howard… Read More »WPC – WEEK 515 – WORDS
Before I get into the meat of this food adventure, I want to enlighten you to the fact that the Best New Fair Food finalist have been named for the Iowa State Fair. Here is some info from the Iowa State Fair website: The TOP 3 Best New Foods, in… Read More »Tenderloining: Food Truck Showdown Field Work
I keep forgetting to share how I did in this year’s Iowa State Photography Salon. I got the yellow card in my mail box over 2 weeks ago and I don’t know if I’ve really shared what it said with too many people. Mostly just a few other photographers, my… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Big Animals
Time for another collection of images from my last trip to the Iowa State Fair last year with Nader. We ended the last collection enjoying the musical stylings of Bandolini. This collection will begin there, but then have a collection of images of people competing in the finals of the… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Talent
I need to start the day by wishing everybody a Happy 4th of July. Have a good Independence Day! It is time to start sharing images from my last trip to the Iowa State Fair. Nader joined me on this trip. This is the trip where I pick up my… Read More »08/18/2024 – Baby Animals
First day of July! No better day than to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from June. From the images it looks like it might have been a pretty lazy month. I definitely didn’t leave the state again, it almost appears that I barely left Boone. But I did take… Read More »Selfie Project – June 2025