After RAGBRAI left Saint Marys it headed to Indianola. That was the halfway town for the day. It was also the second to last town I followed RAGBRAI too for 2024. Indianola is a much bigger town than Saint Charles and Saint Marys and it was definitely more of a… Read More »RAGBRAI: Indianola
Today is Linda’s birthday so I have to wish her a happy birthday! Happy birthday Aunt Linda! I hope you make plenty of new great memories today! Last time we checked in with the second day I photographed RAGBRAI we were just leaving Saint Charles. This collection takes place entirely… Read More »RAGBRAI: Saint Marys
We’ve covered all the images I took of RAGBRAI in Winterset. Now it is time to start the images I took while following RAGBRAI briefly through 4 different towns. The first of those towns is Saint Charles. If you’ve ever even heard of Saint Charles, that is because it hosts… Read More »RAGBRAI: Saint Charles
Today is Dawn’s birthday so I need to wish her a happy birthday! Happy Birthday Dawn! I hope your birthday is filled with all the reading time you can handle! Today is also Jason Baier’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday too. Happy birthday Baier!! I… Read More »DM Farmer’s Market: Denouement
Good news! No, great news! I have finished updating another page on the website! WooHoo! The Calendar page is now changed and ready for mass viewing. The Calendar page is a great resource for 2 things. First, it is where the digital Photography 139 Calendar resides. This is a great… Read More »Food Truckin’: Clear Lake Field Work
Time to share another collection of images from my trip to the Downtown Farmer’s Market with Jesse. More food. More Music. And art!It truly is one of my favorite places to visit. I need to start getting there more than once a year. I’m going to start that this year!… Read More »DM Farmer’s Market: Food and Music and Art
Today is Ash Wednesday. Normally, this is when I invite you to come to worship with me at my church’s Ash Wednesday Service. And none of you take me up on the offer, but I’m not bitter about it. I’m not going to invite you this year though because of… Read More »DM Farmer’s Market: Music and Food
Today is Micky’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday. I hope your birthday is filled with all sorts of outdoorsy activities! Here is the final collection of images from Jesse and I’s trip to Winterset to check out their RAGBRAI activities. When we left off last… Read More »Winterset: Not Quite Brothers
Downtown Des Moines has one of the best Farmer’s Markets in the country. It is massive and while I don’t cook much, I like to eat and I LOVE doing street photography, so I try to make it there at least once a year. Last year I took Jesse with… Read More »DM Farmer’s Market: Beginnings
Last time we looked at photos from Jesse and I’s trip to Winterset to check out the RAGBRAI festivities, Standing Hampton was rocking the stage. This collection finishes up the Standing Hampton images and starts the images of the headlining band. It was a great night and there is still… Read More »RAGBRAI: STANDING HAMPTON
This is the final collection of images from the Boone County Fair. It concentrates on the rides and games the kids rode and ate and probably wore. Here are some pictures from the day! A bonus picture of Bokeh thrown in there at the end for the fans. This was… Read More »Sunday at the BCF: Carnival
After Jesse and I got done eating, we wandered around the festivities for a bit. Checking out the sidewalk chalk that greeted the riders as they entered Winterset. Eventually we ended up by the stage listening to the band Standing Hampton. Here are some more pictures: I remember Standing Hampton… Read More »RAGBRAI: Winterset Street Art
After we hit up the foam party we wandered briefly through the animal barns before hitting up the midway for rides and some food. Here are some more pictures from the day: Still one more collection of images from this great day at the Fair to share!
I like to try to hit at least one of the towns that RAGBRAI goes through every year. Fortunately for me, this year RAGBRAI was, well not close, but fairly close to me for a couple of days. 1 of the overnight stops was Winterset, which is one of my… Read More »RAGBRAI: Winterset Food Vendors
Last Saturday we left off with some wildness going on at the Foam Party. We we start there and this collection will finish off the foam party pictures. But really there can never be too many foam party pictures! Although that was the end of the foam party, there are… Read More »Sunday at the BCF: Foam Party Endeth
Time to share the rest of the Stanhope Watermelon Festival pictures. Most of these are from the watermelon eating contests! Have a look: I endorse the Stanhope Watermelon Day. It is a good day and all the free watermelon you could have ever want! I look forward to it. It… Read More »Stanhope Watermelon Day Contests
I made a fairly rare appearance at the Sunday of the Boone County Fair. The main attraction being a chance to take pictures of Logan’s kids at the foam party. And another attraction being a chance to get some ice cream from one of the food trucks. I also got… Read More »Sunday at the Boone County Fair
Time to revisit the Stanhope Watermelon Festival. This time I’m going to begin with pictures from the Watermelon Eating Contests. It is one of the highlights of the watermelon festival! Here are some pictures: Still one more collection of images from Stanhope Watermelon Festival left to share!
On the Saturday of the Boone County Fair I took a break from Logan’s barbecue contest to jet over to one of my favorite small town festivals, the Stanhope Watermelon Festival. I went there hoping to catch the watermelon eating contest and to visit the Stanhope State University booth. Stanhope… Read More »Stanhope Watermelon Festival BC (Before Contests)
Here we are. Time to share all the pictures I considered for the 2025 Calendar but did not make the cut for one reason or another. Could be that I decided it wasn’t good enough. Or because a similar picture was chosen over it to be placed in the calendar.… Read More »I Wanna Have Control
Time to share the October image from the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: OCTOBER TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro FOCAL LENGTH: 105mm APERTURE: f/3.2 EXPOSURE: 1/160 DATE: July 23, 2024 This dandelion picture was taken in my yard. I take no pride in that… Read More »A Saturday at the Boone County Fair