I Don’t Care if it Hurts
Time to reveal the July image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JULY TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 150-600 f/5-6.3 DG DN FOCAL LENGTH: 276mm APERTURE: f/14 SHUTTER… Read More »I Don’t Care if it Hurts
Time to reveal the July image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JULY TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 150-600 f/5-6.3 DG DN FOCAL LENGTH: 276mm APERTURE: f/14 SHUTTER… Read More »I Don’t Care if it Hurts
It is time to reveal the June image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JUNE TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: SIGMA 150-600 f/5-6.3 DG DN FOCAL LENGTH: 395mm (but… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge Year 11 in Review
All of the 2025 Photography 139 Calendars have been distributed or mailed except for one. It is fair game now to start sharing the calendar images. This is the front… Read More »Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Minutes
After visiting Cataract I went back to meet up with the Gorshe’s at Jen’s Aunt Linda’s house. After a bit there, we loaded up and went to Jen’s Aunt Linda’s… Read More »Eclipse Road Trip Day 2 – Eclipse Watching
REMINDER: THIS IS THE LAST WEEK WHERE YOU CAN LEAVE A SUGGESTION FOR THE THEMES FOR NEXT YEAR’S WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. YOU CAN DO THAT BY LEAVING A COMMENT ON… Read More »WPC – WEEK 477 – PLACES
Back in April I made a road trip with the Gorshes to Indiana to see the solar eclipse. It was a 3 day trip with many great memories. But on… Read More »Eclipse Road Trip Day 1
A tradition I started last year was my Iowa State Fair Power Rankings. Last year I just compiled my list of my 10 Favorite Fair Things. This year I’m going… Read More »State Fairin’: Best New Food Field Work
In yesterday’s post I revealed the images I entered in the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. Today I thought I would give flowers to the consistent THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE… Read More »WPC – WEEK 466 – SCIENCE
Time to share the alternate images for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme BLACK & WHITE that I took on July 4. In fact, I took so many pictures on that… Read More »Remember When I Believed You Meant It
Can you believe that this is the 5,250th entry in the blog known as “An Artist’s Notebook”? Every 250 posts or so I like to take a moment to reflect… Read More »Post 5,250
On Day 2 of the Eclipse Road Trip I woke up in the comfort of the bed. Did my business in a toilet with running water. Brushed my teeth. Still… Read More »Eclipse Road Trip – Day 2
The last total eclipse to be visible from the United States for the next 20 years was on April 8. Unfortunately to see the 100% totality, I had to leave… Read More »Eclipse Road Trip – Day 1
#INSTAGOOD! A great theme! A theme so easy that you could participate if you took one picture this week. But did many people take at least one picture to be… Read More »WPC – WEEK 446 – #INSTAGOOD
On the first day that I followed RAGBRAI, the final stop was Ames. Ames was an overnight town. I went to downtown Ames to check out their festivities and met… Read More »RAGBRAI – Ames
Today seems like a good day to share the rest of the pictures from my day at the Iowa State Fair with Jen, Evie, and Layla. We saw some big… Read More »Iowa State Fair – Day 1 – Beta
Time to start sharing pictures from my numerous trips to the Iowa State Fair last year. Once again, I made a traditional visit on Day 1 of the Fair with… Read More »Iowa State Fair – Day 1 – Alpha
Today is Lowell’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOWELL! If you don’t know, Lowell is not Kim and is not the tall guy.… Read More »Calendar Favorites
As yesterday closed the book on Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, now seems like a good time to review all that happened. There were 59 different people that… Read More »The Weekly Photo Challenge Year in Review
Today is Veterans Day. A day that celebrates all those who served in the U.S. Military. Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans I know! And to the ones I… Read More »But Don’t Tell Me You’re Sorry, Boy
Because last week was so messed up, I didn’t get my planned Halloween post put together, so here it goes. I hope everybody had a good Halloween. I had 51… Read More »Happy Halloween – Late