Harvesting the town signs of Audubon and Guthrie County was one the last road trips I took with my Mom. I took lots of pictures that day, so I’m going to break it up into at least two posts. All of today’s pictures were taken in Guthrie County: Panora Guthrie… Read More »Audubon and Guthrie County Auxiliary Images: Vol. 1
This post is a collection of some macro (mostly) pictures I took across February. Most are of an icicle, but a couple are of a lilac bud from my lilac bush. I might get into the history of those lilacs at some point, but not today. And of course, a… Read More »Macrocicle
There weren’t many pictures in the folders 2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, and 2010-08-30 so I combined them with the folder 2010-08-29. Most of the pictures are from a baby shower Sara and I (she really did all the work) for Jen and Derrick when Jen was preggers with Evie. There are also… Read More »2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, 2010-08-29, and 2010-08-30
Clarke County includes Murray, Iowa. The Murray town sign was the last town sign I harvested on the last road trip I took with my Mom. I recently returned to Clarke County to get the one town sign I was missing. Here are some facts about Clarke County: + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Clarke County
Adair County includes Orient, Iowa. The Orient town sign was one of the town signs I harvested on the last road trip I took with my Mom. I had already taken pictures of most of the town signs in Adair County before going there recently to take pictures of the… Read More »Town Sign Project: Adair County
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
There was a decent amount of submissions for FACE this week. Apparently lots of you know a FACE or two that you like. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Kim Barker Kim Barker Kio Dettman… Read More »WPC – WEEK 295 – FACE
Here is another small collection of some of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85 back in January: I’m still going to go into some detail about what makes the Lensbaby Velvet 85 such a special unique lens at some point. Just not today. +++++++ This is… Read More »More of that Velvet 85
The third new lens I purchased at the beginning of the year was a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Art Lens. I had a 50mm macro lens, but I needed a longer macro lens. Here are the first pictures I took with it: I might go into some technical… Read More »Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Art Lens
At the moment of the publishing of this journal entry, my Covid vaccine will be fully marinated. It will have been two weeks since my second shot. While life won’t return to normal exactly, I look forward to at least, maybe eating in a restaurant, or maybe having a movie… Read More »Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 Di III RXD Lens
I should point out that I messed up the coding in yesterday’s post. You should go to that post again to see the corrections in the code that allow you to see Kim’s and Shannon’s submissions. My Christmas present to my self was a Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 lens. I… Read More »Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8
There was a decent amount of submissions for TRAVEL. It looks like several people left their house this weekend and had TRAVEL adventures. 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 Jodie Cue… Read More »WPC – WEEK 294 – TRAVEL
So I’ve made a decision about THE SELFIE PROJECT. I’ve decided to start it backup tomorrow. Saturday, May 1. I did a few selfies during the month of April. They weren’t for this suspended project, per se, but I threw them in that gallery and I will share them here,… Read More »Selfie Project – April
Union County is the last county of I completed with my Mom. We went through a few counties on that road trip, so there are still a couple individual town signs from that trip to share, but Union County is the final county that we took to completion. I had… Read More »Town Sign Project: Union County
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.
Here is the final collection of images from the 2002 photo shoot with the Degeneffe Boys: I look forward to the 2021 Degeneffe Boys Photo Shoot. +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is HANDS: HANDS A HANDS image is pretty simple. It is… Read More »Austin & Porter 2020 C
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
This set of Town Sign Pictures is from the last town sign harvesting road trip I went on with my Mom. We went through a couple counties on that Saturday. The first one was Madison County: Here are some facts about Madison County: + The population is 15,679. + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Madison County
There was amount of submissions this week for SHADOWS. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Linda Bennett Linda Bennett Linda Bennett Kio Dettman Tamara Peterson Tamara Peterson Kio Dettman Christopher D. Bennett Kio Dettman Micky… Read More »WPC – WEEK 292 – SHADOWS