About this time last year I headed to McHose Park and photographed the Howards for their annual family photo.
This Sunday, we will be heading to Cedar Falls for this year’s family photo.
But let us just enjoy last year’s for now:
Plenty more pictures of the Howards in the next week or so!
This post will wrap up the 3rd to last photo shoot from 2016 to have the 2016 backlog cleared up!
More from the 2016 Howard Family Photo Shoot:
Next Sunday when we tackle the 2016 backlog, we will visit with them Degeneffe boys!
By the time this gets published, I’ll probably be making the trudge up Expo Hill towards the Cultural Building to pick up my photos from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon.
If you didn’t get a chance to duck into the Cultural Building to check out my photos, that is fine. That is dandy. Here are the 4 pictures I entered. 2 were accepted for display. 2 were not.
Not selected for display.
Selected for display.
Selected for display.
2 pictures for display was a solid showing. You never know what the judges will like. I was surprised that Willy’s eye was selected for display. I thought of the 4, it had the worst chance to make it. I guess you never know.
A few statistics from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon:
1018 Photographers Entered
3201 Photographs Entered
Photographers from 20 other states entered
863 Adults Entered
466 of adults who entered have at least one photograph on display
27% of the photos entered were exhibited
I should start planning for next year, but that hasn’t really been my style, yet.
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Starting on the 3rd to last photo shoot from 2016 to have the 2016 backlog cleared up.
This collection is from the Howard Family Photo Shoot:
I told all the people that missed Saydie Sundays that she would be back. For at least one more week after this, even!
Here it is. The final collection of photos from everybody’s favorite Boone High Graduate, Saydie Howard!
I’m not going to quote any canned advice. Saydie is a wise person. She will make good decisions and have a successful life. I have no doubt.
Here are the remaining Saydie pictures:
While this might be the end of Saydie’s Senior Pictures, don’t be disheartened. There very well may be more Saydie pictures in the coming Sundays. Saydie Sundays might not be over!
It is Sunday. It is 8 PM. It is time to check in with everybody’s favorite high school graduate… SAYDIE!!!
Here is some more free advice for Saydie on how to live her life:
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
—J.K. Rowling
This is the second to last collection of photos from Saydie’s Senior Pictures Photo Shoot:
For those of you that have become addicted to Saydie pictures and are worried that you don’t know what to do when they end next Sunday, don’t worry. You’ll find the strength to carry on!
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
It is Sunday. It is 8 PM. It is time to check in with everybody’s favorite 2017 high school graduate… SAYDIE!!!
I don’t have much more to add at this point, I think I’ll just get straight to the pictures:
We’ll be wrapping up this collection about the time Saydie takes off for Northern Iowa, University of.
It is Sunday, so it is time to check in with everybody’s favorite Boone High graduate Saydie!
Time for some more great advice on Saydie’s next adventure, college life!
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-Ben Franklin
After this, are more than halfway done with Saydie’s Senior Photo Shoot!
Will convene back here next Sunday to continue our celebration of Saydie!
Reminder, you have until next Tuesday at midnight to vote on what pictures I enter at the Boone County Fair Photo Contest. Click on the link below to vote:
You must have a Facebook account or a Google+ account to vote. You vote by leaving a comment on a photo. You can vote for up to 5 photos.
As of this writing, there have been about 20 votes. Here are the currently leaders:
There are several pictures that are tied for the last 2 spots.
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Time once again to check in with everybody’s favorite 2018 high school graduate, Saydie!
Here is a quote from Maya Angelou I came across that is good advice for young people getting around to taking on the world:
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Despite all the current evidence to the contrary, I still believe in tomorrow and I hope it is a better tomorrow than we currently deserve.
More images from Saydie’s senior picture photo shoot:
We are over halfway through the Saydie pictures now. I’m already sad to see them go.
Time again to check in with everybody’s favorite 2018 high school graduate, Saydie!
I came across this quote from Alice Walker for graduates:
Be compassionate to everyone. Don’t just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you, see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
-Alice Walker
Alice Walker is famous for writing THE COLOR PURPLE. A line from that book is one of the mandates of this website:
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Here is another set of pictures from Saydie’s Senior Pictures photo shoot:
The tall drink of water posing with Saydie in half the pictures is Kyle. He currently attends UNI. Saydie will also be attending UNI, but I’m told, “not because Kyle goes there”.
We’re about to the halfway point on Saydie pictures now. About.
Time to check back in with my favorite 2018 high school graduate Saydie.
Thought I would start with more of my favorite bits of wisdom given at commencement speech:
Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.
-George Saunders
People should always err in the direction of kindness. Wish I saw more of that in my everyday life.
Saydie:
We’re at the point in the Saydie pictures that we are warmed up. Giving the umpire the signal that we are ready to play ball.
