A reminder to start of this post. This is the last day to suggest a theme for the next 52 weeks of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. There is only one way to suggest a theme for the next 52 weeks in THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Don’t email me a suggestion.… Read More »WPC – WEEK 268 – FRAMED
Double nickels people! Sammy Haggar might not be able to drive 55, but we can do 55 straight weeks of double digits like it ain’t no thing. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp… Read More »WPC – WEEK 266 – BLACK AND WHITE
Sorry that this is several minutes late today. I went to cast my ballot for the 2020 election during my lunch break from the mine: A reminder that if you live in Iowa, early voting starts today! It might be easier and safer than voting on November 3. But you… Read More »WPC – WEEK 264 – SIGNS
Woohoo!! 50 straight weeks of double digit submissions! Starting off the Hall of Fame segment of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in style! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates! You came to see the submissions! Cathie Raley Cathie Raley Carla Stensland Carla… Read More »WPC – WEEK 261 – MACRO
First of all, happy Labor Day. I hope you spend sometime to day thinking about how much better your life is because of organized labor movements. For example, you like weekends? Thank you unions! You like fair wages and relative income equality? Well, this has begun slipping away, but thank… Read More »WEEK 261 THEME REVEAL – MACRO
I need to start the day by wishing Vest a happy birthday. Happy birthday Vest! I hope your birthday was as amazing as you hoped it would be. +++++++ Most of the pictures in the folders 2010-03-26 and 2010-03-27 are pictures of Jill and Shannon that I took for a… Read More »2010-03-26 & 2010-03-27
Today’s walk down will involve 3 folders, but hardly any pictures. The pictures in the folders 2010-02-03, 2010-02-11, and 2010-02-13 are some self-portraits and pictures for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, then known as THE RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. The picture of me with the basketball was taken to commemorate an… Read More »2010-02-03, 2010-02-11, and 2010-02-13
The Boone Chamber announced on Friday that they are cancelling Pufferbilly Days. I think it is the only responsible thing that they can do. I was worried that they would hold it, after the Boone County Fair decided to go on. Pufferbilly Days worried more than the Boone County Fair… Read More »WPC – WEEK 250 – ABSTRACT
This is the last collection of random pictures from 2019. Everything else that is left in the 2019 backlog belongs to a collection of pictures. Such as family portraits or senior pictures or a wedding. Enjoy: I can almost see the light at the end of the 2019 backlog. But… Read More »Stochastic
I recently had a sale in the Photography 139 Gallery. Thanks to Amy for purchasing 16 pictures from the gallery. 16 pictures! Suck on that Vincent van Gogh! I don’t mention it very often, but almost every picture is for sale in the Photography 139 Gallery. Prices are only a… Read More »The Mine: An American Workplace
I need to start today by wishing the happiest of birthdays to Faust! It has been a couple of years since I saw Faust in person. When this virus passes, he will be on the shortlist of people I need to go visit. And not just because he lives in… Read More »WPC – WEEK 239 – ART
Happy Maundy Thursday! Traditionally I would have been a the Computer Mine for a full hour by the time this was publishing. However, my mind would be thinking about tonight’s worship service at the Boone First United Methodist Church. Maundy Thursday is traditionally one of my favorite worship services of… Read More »Mish Mash
People have actually asked me what I have been listening to while I have been working from home. I just finished off Day 9 from work from home and my listening choices have reflected a little bit what they are when I work at the office. Now I can’t listen… Read More »Yesterday is Gone Now
Hitting up the 2019 backlog for a collection of pictures I took while wandering around the Boone County Fair on the last day of the Fair. I was mostly just still playing a bit with the RXO II as I looked to capture many of the animals that were being… Read More »Sunday at the Fair
Another big week for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Double digits for the 17th week in a row. Double digits easy. Easier than walking a Thunderbird. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Elizabeth Nordeen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 228 – COUNTRY
I’m not surprised easily, but you guys surprised me this week. Enough of you dipped your toe into the HDR world to keep the streak of double digit submissions going and to hit 15 straight weeks! But you didn’t come her to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation… Read More »WPC – WEEK 225 – HDR
14 weeks in a row! 14 weeks in a row of double digit submissions! I hope you guys prove me wrong and we hit 15 weeks in a row with HDR because you guys knocked in out of the park with CANDID PORTRAIT in more ways than one! Because I… Read More »WPC – WEEK 224 – CANDID PORTRAIT
It has been since September 20 that I published something from THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. For several months, I have been down to just a couple pages and I had the final page done, but I just couldn’t pull the trigger on that last page. Faced with my deadline of… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 66 & 67
Happy Thanksgiving! Every year on Thanksgiving I like to think about my many, many blessings. I know, real original. You should feel free to try it sometime. But make sure you let everybody know that I invented gratitude. I am thankful for my family, no matter how family is defined:… Read More »Gratitudo
I was a little worried that our 5 week double digit submission streak wouldn’t his 6 weeks with FORMAL PORTRAIT. I hadn’t received some of the normal early submissions, and I translated that into a lack of enthusiasm for the theme. However, there was a deep late arriving enthusiasm. In… Read More »WPC – WEEK 216 – FORMAL PORTRAIT
Welcome to the 3,500th entry in “An Artist’s Notebook”. The blog portion of my Photography 139 website. It has been along time since I first took keyboard hand sitting in the old Computer Mine setup or possibly in my Mom’s basement, because that is where my life was at that… Read More »An Artist’s Notebook Post #3,500