The pictures in the folder Nine Emotions are from when I had the Original 9 pick what the considered what were the best representations of each of the 9 emotions from THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. I didn’t say that they had to use everybody once. I put no limits on… Read More »Nine Emotions
Tomorrow is the Final Four. Thought it would be a good time to check-in on the Roundball Oracles. With 3 games left to go in the NCAA tournament this is the Top 3: 1. Becky Parmelee – 231 Points 2. Carla Stensland – 229 Points 3. Angie DeWaard – 224… Read More »Selfie Project – March 2022
It is time once again for the greatest sporting event of year. It is that time known as March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Once again, I will be sponsoring a pool. There is no cost to enter the pool, except for pride. The winner gets a trophy. The… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 17
The pictures in the folder 2011-05-30 were of a photo shoot I had with Evie when she was just a few months old. I could do the math, but I’m just going to call it 9 months old. Here are some of my favorites: By adding these pictures to the… Read More »2011-05-30
Yesterday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. November really seemed to fly by, with the holiday and other commitments. I think there are some good pictures in here and somethings that I forgot even happened in November. Here are some of my favorites: November 1 November 2… Read More »Selfie Project – November
On Sunday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. One thing that always happens when I look back at a month’s worth of pictures I’m always surprised at some of the things that all happened in the same month. That? That happened this month? I thought that was… Read More »Selfie Project – October
Can you believe that this is the 4,250th post in this crazy little thing called “An Artist’s Notebook’. 4,250 posts! It has been 5,549 days since I took keyboard in hand on August 9, 2006 and typed these words: So here is the first journal entry. The name of that… Read More »Journal Entry #4,250
The images in the folder 2011-02-09 are actually taken on film. They are double exposures. I love double exposures. Yes, you can certainly fake double exposures with Photoshop and some digital cameras will do them. In fact, I need to get back into that. In fact, I need to run… Read More »2011-02-09
I’m still trying to piece together a folder of 2011 images that make sense. The pictures in the folder 2011-02-06 are from when Jen and Derrick posed for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. I still need to fire this project back up and get more victims… err models. Here are the… Read More »2011-02-06
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 I seem to have lost a ton of pictures. I’m grouping all the pictures that are in the folder 01JANUARY2011 together for this post: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following… Read More »01JANUARY2011
The majority of the pictures in the folder 2010-11-01 are from when the Iowa State Cyclones bested the Kansas Jayhawks on the gridiron. I believe that was like 7 Kansas football coaches ago. Back then there coach was a guy who used to coach at Buffalo. Their current coach is… Read More »2010-11-01
Despite the holiday weekend, there was pretty good participation in this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. At least a few of you got out there and had an ADVENTURE last week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see… Read More »WPC – WEEK 303 – ADVENTURE
There were large collections of images in the folders 2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, or 2010-09-27 so I combined them into one post. These include pictures of an Iowa State-Kansas State football game, pictures taken shortly after Evie was born, and pictures of Elainie playing football. By adding these pictures to the Photography… Read More »2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, and 2010-09-27
There is a wide collection of images in the folder 2010-09-06. Some are of Jen and Derrick when she was pregnant with Evie. The others are from a Labor Day cookout I hosted at my house for the family. Also, some pictures of a toad I found in my backyard.… Read More »2010-09-06
When we left off, I had just won 1st Place in Black and White and 3rd Place in Color at the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, but had been completely rejected by the Iowa State Fair for the 4th year in a row. Whatever I was selling, the judges were not… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 2
Recently I’ve been working on an organizational project as I prepare to get rid of a bunch of things in Boone’s annual Citywide Cleanup in a couple of weeks. Part of this has been organizing every (almost) picture that I have entered in a photo contest, both physically in a… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 1
There weren’t many pictures in the folders 2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, and 2010-08-30 so I combined them with the folder 2010-08-29. Most of the pictures are from a baby shower Sara and I (she really did all the work) for Jen and Derrick when Jen was preggers with Evie. There are also… Read More »2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, 2010-08-29, and 2010-08-30
The folder 2010-08-23 is absolutely stuffed to the gills. There are so many images in there I almost considered breaking it up into a couple posts, but decided against it. There are pictures in there from a trip to the Iowa State Fair and pictures of Jen and Derrick when… Read More »2010-08-23
The pictures in the folder 2010-07-21 are from a photo session I had with Jen and Derrick while she was pregnant with Evie. We had 6 of these photo sessions as I documented the pregnancy process. This was the third of those sessions: By adding these pictures to the Photography… Read More »2010-07-21
I need to start today by wishing my sister Carla a happy birthday. Happy birthday Carla! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I also need to wish Monica a happy birthday. Happy birthday Monica! I hope your birthday is as amazing as… Read More »WPC – WEEK 287 – PICTURE IN PICTURE
It is time once again for the greatest sporting event of year. It is that time known as March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Once again, I will be sponsoring a pool. There is not cost to enter the pool, except for pride. The winner gets a trophy. The… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 16