Recently I’ve been working on an organizational project as I prepare to get rid of a bunch of things in Boone’s annual Citywide Cleanup in a couple of weeks. Part of this has been organizing every (almost) picture that I have entered in a photo contest, both physically in a… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 1
This is the final collection of pictures I’m sharing from the photo shoot with Alexis shortly before she gave birth to Anela. However, she doesn’t appear in any of these pictures. These are all pictures of big brother Kanoa. I still have a collection of Anela pictures and several collections… Read More »Alexis Prego Cuatro
The folder 2010-08-23 is absolutely stuffed to the gills. There are so many images in there I almost considered breaking it up into a couple posts, but decided against it. There are pictures in there from a trip to the Iowa State Fair and pictures of Jen and Derrick when… Read More »2010-08-23
It has been over 2 months since I got back to this photo shoot with the Stenslands at the end of 2020. It was a real blessing to have gotten so many of these pictures taken with Mom. She originally was just tagging along and then she went home and… Read More »The Stenslands 2020 – Beta
Here is the third installment of pictures I took of Alexis when she was pregnant with Anela. Although, the grand majority of these pictures are of Kanoa sporting his big brother shirt! I still have one more collection of these photos to share.
I want to share some of the words people have share about Mom, starting with her obituary. Carla wrote the obituary and Teresa and I went over it. Obituary for Charlotte Ann Bennett Charlotte Ann Bennett September 26, 1942 – March 24, 2021 Charlotte Ann Bennett, 78, lifelong resident of… Read More »Mom’s Obituary
Here is the second collection of images I took of Anela from when she was 2 weeks old. I still have more Anela pictures to share.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I WROTE THIS POST BEFORE MY MOM PASSED AWAY, BUT I DON’T HAVE THE HEART TO CHANGE THE TEXT. The grand majority of pictures from the album are from my Mom’s Retirement Party. The other one if from Dickcissel. I haven’t looked at the pictures from the Retirement… Read More »2010-08-01
When we met with the funeral home to plan my Mom’s funeral, they told us to bring them some pictures so that they could put together a video to play in 3 places during her visitation. I asked how many pictures and they said around 35. I asked what if… Read More »Mom Video Pictures
For those of you that haven’t heard, my Mom passed away about 10 days ago. Because of that, I have not been in a state to reveal the submissions for LOVE on time or reveal the new theme for last week. Because of that, I don’t know how steady my… Read More »WPC – WEEK 289 – LOVE
This is a reminder that at this point you have 1 hour to get your picks in for my NCAA Tournament Pool. Click on the link below to get started: Roundball Oracles – Year 16 Good luck! +++++++ I need to wish my Aunt Linda a happy birthday today. Happy… Read More »Jasper County Auxiliary Images
I need to start today by wishing my sister Carla a happy birthday. Happy birthday Carla! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I also need to wish Monica a happy birthday. Happy birthday Monica! I hope your birthday is as amazing as… Read More »WPC – WEEK 287 – PICTURE IN PICTURE
Today is the second Sunday of Lent. I’m going to share a devotional by Reverend Ron Carlson: Giving up and letting go Rev. Ron Carlson John 2:13-22 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple those who were selling… Read More »The Stenslands 2020- Alpha
It is the first Sunday of Lent. It is possible you couldn’t get to church today for a wide variety of reasons. To help you out I’m sharing a devotional by Reverend Melissa Drake. “Knowing our Identity” Mark 1: 9-13: By: Rev. Melissa Drake, Southwest Region Superintendent We are in… Read More »Anela Chapter 1
I need to start out by wishing a Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody that celebrates today. Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, I know that there are a ton of people out there that are violently opposed to Saint Valentine’s Day. They call it a holiday invented by candy companies and the… Read More »Alexis Prego Dos
This is the final collection of pictures from when I went to Manhattan to take pictures of the triplets near their second birthday. Chaos! That is the only way to really describe what a photo session with 3 two year-olds with their own agenda. I should have brought a photo… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 4
August 9, 2006. That was the date where I first took keyboard in hand and began typing out the blog that I entitled “An Artist’s Notebook”. I entitled that first post “First Journal Entry”. The categories for that first post were “Blogging”, “Contests”, “Jay”, and “Sara”. This is the first… Read More »Post #4,000
A couple months back I met Alexis at McFarland Park to take some pictures of her shortly before she gave birth to Anela. While 2020 was a cesspool of terrible, I did add two great-nieces to my family. In Anela and Dahlia. Here is the first collection of Alexis pregnancy… Read More »Alexis Prego Uno
Back during the week of Labor Day, I took a week of vacation. I believe it was the only full week of vacation I took in 2020. One of the things I did while on vacation was take a road trip out to the Loess Hills. My ultimate destination was… Read More »Loess Hills
This is the final week of the Hall of Fame THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE themes. TRANSPORTATION is a good way to end it, I suppose. 66! That is the number of weeks in a row we have hit double digit submissions! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 277 – TRANSPORTATION
The January image of the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken in lower Ledges. It was taken on January 4, 2020. It was taken shortly after a recent snow fall. One sad part about the printed version of this picture in the calendar is that the picnic table gets cut… Read More »Kanoa at 1!