Time to reveal the August image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. AUGUST – 2026 The subject of the August is a baby pig snoozing away at the Iowa State Fair. I have so many favorite parts of the Iowa State Fair and can’t wait until I actually get to… Read More »Philadelphia Day 2: The End
Time to reveal the Mach image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. MARCH – 2026 Technical Details This picture is the ocean view looking back from the ocean view of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. If I was forced to pick my favorite part of the Ireland trip, I… Read More »State Fairin’: Trip 1
Every last 2026 Photography 139 calendar has been distributed as of roughly 5:30 PM last night. So now is a good time to start sharing the images from this year’s calendar. We will start with the front cover. FRONT COVER – 2026 Technical Details The subject of the picture is… Read More »525,600 Minutes – 2025 Year in Review
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
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
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
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
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
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