All of the 2025 Photography 139 Calendars have been distributed or mailed except for one. It is fair game now to start sharing the calendar images. This is the front cover image: FRONT COVER – 2025 Technical Details: CAMERA: SONY 7M4LENS: SIGMA 14-24 f/2.8 DG DN ARTFOCAL LENGTH: 20mmAPERTURE: f/8SHUTTER… Read More »Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Minutes
Today is Nate’s birthday, so I have to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Nate! I hope you birthday is as peaceful as a birthday can be with triplets running around! +++++++ I’ve seen the people As they walk down the street Smiling and looking so free As I… Read More »Never Enough
Today is my mother-in-law Colleen’s birthday, so I need to wish her a happy birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope your birthday is magical! +++++++ I didn’t take many phone pictures on Day 2 and Day 3 in New Orleans, so I’m combining them into one post. Day 2 is when… Read More »The Big Easy – Day 2 & 3 Phone Pictures
Last Wednesday my step-grandfather-in-law Shorty Peterson passed away. I include the “step” and “in-law” in front of his name not to indicate a distance, but to illustrate that sometimes titles, whether or correct or not do not indicate what it means to be “family”. Because Shorty and his wife Doris,… Read More »Farewell Shorty
Time to share the February image from the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. It is a picture of a strawflower bulb that was taken in my yard: FEBRUARY This image was placed in February as February houses Valentines Day and I like to think that flowertography is considered romantic. TECHNICAL DETAILS:… Read More »Minnesota Independence Day Road Trip – Day 2
Back in July I took a road trip up to Minnesota near the 4th of July to visit family. Here are a few pictures from Day 1 of the trip: Coming across Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store was a welcome surprise. Apparently Nora has wanted to go there forever, but Bethany… Read More »Minnesota Independence Day Road Trip – Day 1
Today is Nate’s birthday, so happy birthday Nate! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I did have submissions from one person come in a tad bit late for PARK. Normally, I would tell that person to pound sand. You were late, there… Read More »Rodan139: Boxholm
Today is Colleen’s birthday, so happy birthday Colleen! I hope it is as magical as you want it to be! +++++++ On the health spectrum, this post is about a food item that couldn’t be more on the opposite end of the “healthy eating” spectrum than a tenderloin if it… Read More »Salad Shooting: Ames Field Work
I need to start today’s post by wishing Laura a happy birthday. Happy birthday Laura! For most people I wish them a birthday full of joy. For Laura, I just hope she got some rest. +++++++ Time once again to share a collection of pictures from my photo shoot with… Read More »Fran & Pepper 2022 – Vol. 3
A few months back I picked up some cakes and Jim and went to the Wolf Lodge near Kansas City for the birthday party of the triplets and Jonah. I didn’t get to spend much time there cause Jim is kind of like Cinderella. He expires after being away from… Read More »Triplet + Jonah Birthday Party – 2022
I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas. This little picture is my way of saying Merry Christmas to all of you: Merry Christmas! I would like to share a Christmas Devotional with you: Merry Christmas By Rev. Ronald Carlson Jr. Dean of the Cabinet and District Superintendent of Riverview Park… Read More »Westhaven Christmas
Today is a monumental day. It is the last of our Saturday walks down memory lane. With this last collection of images, I was able to fix all the blogs that had missing pictures due to my constant changing of image gallery hosts. The last entry to be fixed was… Read More »Memory Lane Denouement
I’ve decided to do the SELFIE PROJECT in 2022. I usually don’t do this in back to back years, but I thought I would give it a shot. Here are my favorite SELFIE PROJECT images from December: December 1 December 2 December 3 December 4 December 9 December 11 December… Read More »Selfie Project – December
Last Saturday I went down to Manhattan, Kansas to watch Nate graduate from Kansas State University with a degree in Food Science. He will be finding another job soon and hopefully moving closer. Here are some pictures from the party: I transported the cake from Boone. Don’t worry, I didn’t… Read More »Natuation
ODD CAMERA ANGLE has proven to be an oddly successful theme! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Submitted by Andy Sharp – Photo by Don Lester Angie DeWaard Bill Wentworth Christopher D. Bennett… Read More »WPC – WEEK 326 – ODD CAMERA ANGLE
A few weeks back the Triplets and Jonah had a birthday party at the KOA near Adel. I wasn’t able to make the party because it was schedule for the same time as the Iowa State-Oklahoma State football game that I was scheduled to attend. But I did have time… Read More »Triplet + Jonah Birthday Party
I need to start today by wishing Laura a happy birthday. Happy birthday Laura! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ This set of old-timey postcards I recreated for THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT, are of the First Presbyterian Church. Their website has a… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Presbyterian Church
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
I need to start this post off by wishing Lowell a happy birthday. Happy birthday Lowell! I hope it was as happy as you wanted it to be! +++++++ Here is another collection of pictures from when I travelled to Manhattan to take pictures of the Millers. These are mostly… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 3
Figured today would be another good day to share more pictures from when I travelled to Manhattan, Kansas to take pictures of the Millers. This was meant to be more of a formal portrait, but turned out to be candid portraits, which is perfectly okay, by my standards. Got plenty… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 2
The picture for the August in the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken after the derecho devastate a good chunk of Iowa. It was taken of the elevator in Luther with a fisheye lens. It was taken on August 11, 2020. Here are some details on the photo: DETAILS CAMERA:… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 1