Last Saturday we left off in the Arnolds Park Amusement Park at the roller coaster. This is the final collection of images from my trip and it concentrates mostly on walking around the lakefront area in Arnolds Park. Here are the pictures: I’ll have to ride this some day. But… Read More »Arnolds Park Day Trip: Lake Walk
Now that I’ve revealed all of the 2026 Photography Calendar I’m going to put together a super long post. I’m not joking, this is a SUPER long post. You might want to stretch out your scrolling finger before diving in to this one. Normally I might make this into 2… Read More »Let’s Talk 2026 Calendar!
The second day of December. No better day to share THE SELFIE PROJECT images from November. Once again, my travel was pretty minimal. I think the farthest I made it from my front step was Des Moines. Gross. But I promise that I will do better in December! Here are… Read More »Selfie Project – November 2025
It’s a good time to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from May. It was a decently busy month. But I never left the state. I mean why would you leave Iowa? We’re second to last in economic growth. 48th in personal income growth. Our education system, which used to… Read More »Selfie Project – May 2025
As many of you have heard, I had to say goodbye the Camry. I don’t get too attached to physical things. Well, I like to think I’m not, but everything about my house probably says I’m lying to myself about that. But let’s just go with I don’t get too… Read More »Requiem for a Camry
It is 2025, so I probably should have already shared all the 2023 pictures, but I haven’t. There is still one collection of images I have left to share. That is the 2023 Stensland family photo shoot images. After this, we can say goodbye to 2023. And just 2024 and… Read More »Stenslands 2023
It is time to reveal the June image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JUNE TECHNICAL DETAILSCAMERA: Sony 7M4LENS: SIGMA 150-600 f/5-6.3 DG DNFOCAL LENGTH: 395mm (but image is cropped)APERTURE: f/11SHUTTER: 1/160ISO: 800DATE TAKEN: April 8, 2024 I drove in a caravan with the Gorshes all the way to Indiana… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge Year 11 in Review
Time to reveal the April image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: APRIL TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro FOCAL LENGTH: 105mm APERTURE: f/8 EXPSOURE: 1/125 ISO: 640 DATE: April 13, 2024 I took this picture a couple of weeks before the Pella Tulip… Read More »Cue: Kansas City Field Work
Time to reveal the January image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JANUARY Technical Details CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 FOCAL LENGTH: 24 mm APERTURE: f/2.8 EXPOSURE: 1/30 ISO: 160 DATE TAKEN: December 27, 2023 This picture was taken in Memphis, Tennessee on Jesse and I’s trip to… Read More »Your Song
Back in July Dahlia threw a tremendous birthday bash! All the celebrities were there! And by all the celebrities, I mean Moana was there! I took a few pictures of the spectacle. Ain’t no time to share them like right now: Can’t wait to see who shows up at Dahlia’s… Read More »Ain’t No Party Like a Moana Party…
I need to start today’s post by remembering the victims of the terrorist acts on our country that happened on September 11, 2001. Hard to believe it was 23 years ago. I can still vividly remember almost everything about that morning. I’m sure almost everyone that was alive on that… Read More »Forever A Cyclone State!
It has been a rough week for my family. On Saturday morning my brother-in-law Russ passed away. I want to share his obituary so it is always in a place where I know I can find it. Russell Kahler Obituary Russell Duane Kahler, 63, of Boone, Iowa, passed away at… Read More »Russ Kahler
Probably well beyond time I shared some pictures from Anela’s birthday party all the way back in November. I’m real big on the toddler party circuit. Real big!
Time to share the last collection of glorious BLACK AND WHITE images I took but didn’t use for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. These were also all taken at Logan’s birthday party. The ink has barely dried on this post and I’m already sad our trip through all the glorious BLACK… Read More »When You Were Here Before
Before Carla and I went to the Clay County Fair, we took a quick spin around Lake Okoboji with Jason before he put away the boat for the winter. It is always a good time when you are on a boat. Here are some pictures: It was a truly great… Read More »This Ain’t Sea World, This is as Real as it Gets
Today is a very important day! Today is Jason’s birthday, so I have to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Jason! I hope you birthday is amazing! +++++++ Today is also Memorial Day. The day we honor and mourn U.S. miliary personnel who died while serving in the United… Read More »WPC – WEEK 454 – NOT YOUR HOMETOWN
A few week’s back Carla, Jason, Teresa, and I loaded up into Teresa’s new car and drove down to Kansas City to watch Iowa State play in the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game. It was the second year in a row for Iowa State to make the Championship… Read More »Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is possible that this will publish late this week. I am getting my taxes done at 11 this morning and when this publishes is dependent on how long that takes. BIG BUCKS! NO WHAMMIES!* CIRCLE! 360 degrees of fury! But is there enough fury in a CIRCLE… Read More »WPC – WEEK 438 – CIRCLE
I know I might have written that I was finally going to start sharing pictures from the Color the Wind Festival today, but instead I’m going to do a recap of the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest before it gets too long in the tooth. First, I should announce to those… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Recap
Today is Jason’s birthday. Happy birthday Jason! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Time to clean up the backlog. These images are from September that never quite fit into any previous posts. Some are alternates for THE WEEKLYPHOTO CHALLENGE. Another is a… Read More »And You Left Me There Cryin’ Wonderin’ What I Did Wrong
I need to start out by thanking everyone that wished me a happy birthday. I believe this is a comprehensive list of everybody that wished me a happy birthday. + Kim and also thank you for buying me birthday Buffalo Chicken tots and the card. + Ron, Clevenger, Jordan, and… Read More »The Windy City: Day 1B