Time to share the final collection of images I took from my 3rd trip to the Iowa State Fair. This trip was with Logan, but at this point we met up with Elainie and Sabas. It starts with us watching some kind of dive team. Here is the final collection… Read More »ISF: 08/13/2024 – Denouement
Time for another collection of images from my third trip to the Iowa State Fair. Last time we left off getting the free eggs in the Agriculture Building. Here are the pictures: There is still one more collection of images from this trip to the Fair left to share!
Happy Friday the 13th everyone! A bad day for Templar Knights. A worse day for drugged up oversexed camp counselors. Probably going to be a pretty bad day for me too. But it is also free sandwich day at Jimmy’s Barbecue!! Don’t forget to get yours! Unless you are the… Read More »ISF: 08/13/2024 – Early Afternoon
Time for another collection of images from my 3rd trip to the Iowa State Fair. This one to assist Logan in the barbecue contest. In this collection, it is still early morning. Before the gates have opened to the general public. Most of this one is me wandering around the… Read More »ISF: 08/13/2024 – Morning Midway
This is my final collection of images I took at Pufferbilly Days last year. I didn’t get the full Pufferbilly Days experience last year as it was held on the same weekend as an Iowa State home game. Fortunately this year, Pufferbilly Days is on a weekend where Iowa State… Read More »Art in the Park – 2024
I just want to start today by wishing people a Happy Pride Month! At Photography 139, we are deeply committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for everyone. We celebrate Pride Month and stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, recognizing the importance of affirming and supporting individuals’ identities and… Read More »WPC – WEEK 508 – SPIRIT
Time to start sharing images from my 3rd Trip to the Iowa State Fair. This trip I took with Logan to help him in the barbecue contest. I shared those barbecue contest images a while back. But not it is time to share the rest of the images. You can… Read More »ISF: 08/13/2024 – Early Morning
Time to share a few pictures I took of the Pufferbilly Days Parade from last year. I only watched part of it as I needed to get to Ames for the Iowa State game. I mostly went up to check out the church’s float since I did spend some time… Read More »Puffer Parade – 2024
This is the final collection of images from my State Fair trip with the Gorshes. We didn’t stay too late into the day because they had some kind of family camping trip they were leaving for the next day. When we last left off, Jen and Layla were on the… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024: Final Images
Time to share a collection of images I took from my trip to the Madrid Labor Day Festival with Teresa. I’ve always wanted to watch a Civil War re-enactment and this was my chance. It was interesting to watch and now I’ve done it, I’m not sure I need to… Read More »Madrid Labor Day Festival – 2024
Time for more pictures from my second day at the Iowa State Fair with Jen, Evie, and Layla. When we last ended photos from that trip Layla had just finished dancing and we were beginning our brief wondering around the fairgrounds. Here are the pictures: That seems like a good… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024: Skyglider
This is the final collection of pictures from my trip to the National Balloon Classic with Jesse last year. This one features a few pictures of the Night Glow thing, which I confess was pretty disappointing. I guess I’m not sure what I expected, but the simple answer is, “more”.… Read More »National Balloon Classic: Drones
Time for more pictures from my second trip to the Iowa State Fair with the Gorshes. Last time I started sharing pictures from Layla’s dance performance. This time I will share the rest of the dance performance pictures and start on the images from the rest of the day. Here… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024: Irish Dance Party
Time for another collection of pictures from my trip to the National Balloon Classic with Jesse. This is the second to last collection of images. I’d like to make it there again this year. In fact, I’d like to ride in a hot air balloon this year. But I have… Read More »National Balloon Classic: Sunsetting Balloons
Time to clean up the backlog a bit. This is a collection of images taken at Rinehart’s and Rieman’s that have just never found their way into a different post. These pictures were taken on the same day as the sunflower images and the zinnia images from the last two… Read More »I Want a Perfect Body
Time for more pictures from my second trip to the Iowa State Fair last year. This trip was with the Gorshe. Last time it was all pictures I took while wandering around waiting for Layla to take the dance stage. This collection is more of those images and then some… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024 – Irish Dance Party Begins
It’s nice to hear your voice againI’ve waited all day longEven wrote a song for youIt’s strange, the way you make me feelWith just a word or twoI’d like to do the same for you It’s nice to hear you say “hello”And “how are things with you?I love you”But very… Read More »Bless the Telephone
Time for another collection of images from my trip to the National Balloon Classic in Indianola with Jesse. There is no real way to describe this collection other than it is a bunch of balloons taking off. Some of them are are participating in a contest where they throw something… Read More »National Balloon Classic: More Balloons!
This is the final collection of images from my trip to the Valley Junction Farmer’s Market with Jay. These pictures more concentrate on the food and music of the farmer’s market. Here is the final collection of images: While I enjoyed my time at the Valley Junction Farmer’s Market, I… Read More »VJ Farmer’s Market: Music & Food
It time for the first collection of images from my trip to the Iowa State Fair with a few of the Gorshe. I went down to the fair with Jen and Evie to watch Layla do some Irish dancing. Evie was still on the IR recovering from a track injury.… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024 – Pre-Irish Dance Party
You don’t know how you move meDeconstruct me and consume meI’m all used up, I’m out of luck I am star struckBy something in your eyesThat is keeping my hope alive But I’m sick of myself when I look at youSomething is beautiful and trueIn a world that’s ugly and… Read More »Sick of Myself