Last Friday night the Boone Toreadors travelled to Indianola for their final game of the season. Andy asked me to attend the game to take some pictures of the final game of Kyle’s career. We supped and then I went to the game through the first half and then called… Read More »Boone at Indianola
REMINDER!!! This week and next week are you chance to help mold the next 52 weeks for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. To do that leave suggestions for themes in the COMMENTS section of this here journal entry. There were some good suggestions last week and one truly terrible one. Terrible… Read More »WPC – WEEK 319 – GREEN
The pictures in the folder 2011-02-11 are of Jesse and Jay posing for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. Here are the pictures from 2011-02-11: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory: PERSONAL PHOTO… Read More »2011-02-11
Last Friday Andy asked me to come to the Boone football game to get a few pictures of Senior Night. Andy’s son Kyle is the QB on the team. Fellow email subscriber Aaron’s son Jayton is a WR on the team. At one point in the game Kyle threw a… Read More »Boone 58 Perry 0
This is the final set of peripheral images I took on my road trip with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. The last couple of pictures are from Maxwell that I took on my way back home. I stopped there because I still needed to photograph their Freedom… Read More »Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3
In the next few weeks I will be compiling a list of the next 52 themes. If you have ideas for me to consider, place it in the COMMMENTS section of this here journal entry. I might not use them, but I will definitely give them the consideration that they… Read More »WPC – WEEK 318 – PASSION
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
Here is a second collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Warren County with Shannon. Medora New Virginia Couldn’t quite figure out what this was… This is one of the most enigmatic things I’ve come across in my travels. It was just there. No explanation.… Read More »Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2
A few weeks back I travelled around Warren County with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip: Indianola Ackworth Beech Milo This would be a great idea for people like my neighbor Stan. I love that Milo took… Read More »Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
Need to start today by wishing everybody a Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day and remember F*CK Christopher Columbus. For raping 9 and 10 year old girls. For the murder of 8 million Arawahs, while enslaving them. For cannibalism. For feeding babies to dogs. For using biological weapons to kill 97 million… Read More »WPC – WEEK 317 – TIME
On Tuesday night Layla wanted to go to a 4-H Photo Scavenger Hunt on the Iowa State Campus, but both her parents were indisposed. They asked me to take her and since 4-H photography runs through the blood of this family (both my sisters were accomplished 4-H photographers) I agreed… Read More »4-H Photo Scavenger Hunt
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
Although there isn’t really a youth group at the church right now, Andy was able to rustle a bunch of kids to help the Methodist Women collect items for their annual rummage sale and help tear things down after it was over. Other than an unfortunate run-in with a douchey… Read More »Methodist Women’s Rummage Sale
Despite it being late in the year and FLOWERs not necessarily being in abundance this time of year, FLOWER ended up fueling the creative fires of quite a few people. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the… Read More »WPC – WEEK 316 – FLOWER
The pictures in the folder 2011-01-29 are of Alice when she turned 6 months old. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory: Alice at Six The next time we take a stroll… Read More »2011-01-29
Yesterday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. I don’t know I did a lot in September, but I guess the pictures will tell the story. Here are my favorites from September: September 3 September 4 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 10 September 11 September 12… Read More »Selfie Project – September 2021
DREAM JOB wasn’t an extremely popular theme. I guess people just have forgotten how to dream. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Elizabeth Nordeen Tamara Peterson Bill Wentworth Christopher D. Bennett Shannon Bardole-Foley Micky Augustin… Read More »WPC – WEEK 315 – DREAM JOB
I’m trying to piece the 2011 archives together across a few different hard drives. I know I have definitely lost a bunch of images in 2011, but I’m always discovering some that I thought were lost but really aren’t. In the folder 2011-01-27 are the first set of pictures I… Read More »2011-01-27
WORK turned out to be a pretty popular theme. I knew many of you out there were hard WORKers! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Jesse Howard Micky Augustin Andy Sharp Bill Wentworth Carla Stensland… Read More »WPC – WEEK 314 – WORK
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