Cheaper than Therapy I co-hosted a Baby Shower for Baby G. with Sara a couple months back. Sara wanted a photobooth for the shower, so I made a makeshift one in her garage. It worked well enough and we were able to use the pictures in a book of baby… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #37
Never the Same River These pictures were taken on a floody night back in June after Sara and I ate at a Lebanese restaurant nearby. I need to thank her for her assistance on this night even though I definitely burned out all of her patience… and then some. I… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #34
I went to the State Fair with Sara on Sunday night with the mistaken belief that we would go see Vanilla Ice and Tone Loc in concert. We were going to be ironic, not because we thought this would be good, but in the end, the joke was on us.… Read More »State Fair Koan
“This song is about a man that tells the truth about things that didn’t happen. It seems to be a male thing.” -Glen Hansard – Introducing “Lies” at First Avenue – July 25, 2010 Most of this comes from an email that I wrote about my weekend in Minnesota. Sara… Read More »In This Old Purple Town
2/6 This is a 6 (in reality a 7 part project but shhhh….. both of you that know the endgame) part project. In case you have forgotten: Part 1 More pictures from The 2/6 Photo Session: > Part 3/6 is scheduled to be published on September 17. I am headed… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 27
Happy Birthday Logan! Happy Birthday Derrick! This Journal Entry also marks a milestone for Derrick. He has become the 4th person to reach triple digits in Journal Entries about them. However, I promised 3 Happy Birthdays…. Happy Birthday Jill!
The Glow that Illumines I took this series of pictures after Todd and Peggy’s wedding with Sara insisting I don’t do anything dangerous or illegal. Here are more pictures that aren’t dangerous or illegal: I will have to revisit this concept with somebody that cares less about my safety and… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 25
Every 100 or so posts, I like to make a list of the most popular pictures on this blog. Here is the list of the 10 most popular photos in the Artistic Gallery. 1. Outburst of the Soul 2. Self-Portrait 3. Jen Relaxing Between Sets 4. Grizzly McAlpine 5. Rebecca… Read More »Post No. 850
I had a pretty awesome Memorial Day Weekend and saw all of the right people. Plus, my grill got quite the workout. The weekend started with FNSC at my humble abode. The group core was there, plus Jesse and Dawn. Jesse, Willy and I hung by the fire pit until… Read More »Memorial Day Weekend
Every once in awhile somebody introduces me to something fascinating that exists in the world that I did not know about. Sara did this with PostSecret. Shannon did this with Six-Word Memoirs. Last week, Dawn introduced me to Day Zero. For lack of a better term, it is a Motivational… Read More »Day Zero
I had my, what could theoretically become, annual Birthday Barbecue on Saturday. I would like to thank all of the people that attended and made the evening special: Bardole, Shannon Bennett, Charlotte Cousin, Amy Daniel, Jeffrey Degeneffe, Austin Degeneffe, Melissa Degeneffe, Scott Dill, Colby Dill, Dan Dill, DJ Gorshe, Derrick… Read More »A Small, Intimate Gathering
I woke up on Saturday morning and decided today was a good day to do yard work. I don’t normally reward myself because just being me is quite its own reward, but I knew that I wanted to work up an extremely healthy appetite for the night’s dining. I was… Read More »Vacation Day 8 – The Cinema
This is the first Personal Photo Project of the Week where I didn’t actually take the pictures. I just designed them. Sara was kind enough to take time off from her studies to come up and take these pictures that graced my birthday barbecue invitations. These pictures are not presented… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 16
I was set on going back to the Cyclone State on Tuesday night after visiting Faust on his day off, but Bethany and Becca requested that I stay one more night. I had no plans for Wednesday (Sara’s attempt to convince me to go to Iowa City failed since she… Read More »Vacation Day 4 – Cotton Candy
“I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them? ” – The Birds I spent a good portion of my first day of vacation working on… Read More »Vacation Day 1 – The Birds
The submissions for this week include the youngest contributor to date. I’m not sure of Scott’s exact age, but I know it is south of double digits. I should really know his age, considering I helped plan the guest list for his birthday party. Dawn Krause Michael Vest Scott Krause… Read More »RWPE #15 – Long Exposure
Mingled Souls This picture was taken one fairly cold Sunday night with Sara helping out. A few other pictures from that night. One of these was taken by Sara. We also scouted out an alley and couple of other potential late night photo subjects in downtown Des Moines.
Here are a few extra, bonus images from the Lone Wolf photo shoot with Sara. Sara was full of creative ideas on this night and she helped improvise when I realized that I had left a key part of my tripod at home, making the tripod essentially useless and making… Read More »Lone Wolf Extras
“You see the smile that’s on my mouth It’s hiding the words that don’t come out And all of my friends who think that I’m blessed They don’t know my head is a mess. No, they don’t know who I really am And they don’t know what I’ve been through… Read More »The Story