Would you believe that I haven’t posted a tenderloining post since February 5… of 2020? I mean, that just flat out sucks people. I know there are much worse things that have happened due to the horribly mismanaged pandemic, but throw that log on the dumpster fire too. It isn’t… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Working at Home
We did it! Again! 73 straight weeks of double digit submissions. More than a few of the submissions this week were attached to emails with people pointing out that they also like art that is heavy in SYMMETRY & PATTERNS. I immediately crossed these people off my Christmas Card List.… Read More »WPC – WEEK 284 – SYMMETRY & PATTERNS
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
Well, we did it! Andy said it couldn’t be done, but we hit double digits with WIND like it ain’t no thing, but a chicken wing on a string. A phrase, that while I enjoy typing, don’t understand in the slightest. 72 weeks in a row of double digit submissions!… Read More »WPC – WEEK 283 – WIND
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
Back in September, I strapped the Sony RX0 II to the side view mirror of the Camry. Loaded Naima into the car and drove down the canyon road at Ledges taking time-lapse images. Here are a few of them: I’m not sure what happened here, but I absolutely love the… Read More »Time Lapsed
I have to confess, I had my doubts about USE OF SPACE. It is a little more technical theme and the technical themes scare many people away. But we did it! 71 weeks in a row of double digits! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all… Read More »WPC – WEEK 282 – USE OF SPACE
Today feels like a good day to share the images I took while I was prowling around Webster County harvesting their town signs with Mom and Teresa several weeks ago. I truly love this sign so much! I do love small town water towers. Stumpy’s Finished Top 5 Tenderloins in… Read More »Webster County Auxiliary Images
A few weeks back, I loaded up into the car with my Mom and we drove around the enormous county that is Jasper County harvesting the signs that I was missing. It was a good trip that include the traditional breakfast from Hardee’s. If the TOWN SIGN PROJECT has a… Read More »Town Sign Project: Jasper County
I decided last year to bring back THE SELFIE PROJECT for 2021. If you don’t recall, that is where I take a picture of myself everyday for the entire year. It is a little different in a pandemic because for the first month, there isn’t a single picture with anybody… Read More »Selfie Project – January 2021
BLACK! Another theme. Another Monday. Another week of double digit submissions! 70 weeks in a row to be exact! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! Jesse Howard Kim Barker Jesse Howard Kio Dettman Carla… Read More »WPC – WEEK 281 – BLACK
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 the day by wising Anders a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ A few weeks back I loaded up into the car with my Mom and Teresa as they joined me as I… Read More »Town Sign Project: Wright County
HOBBIES! People seem to love them and it is no surprise that HOBBIES was the 69th theme in a row to crack double digit submissions! It did it easy as well. In fact, this might be the record for most submissions ever in one week. The problem is, I don’t… Read More »WPC – WEEK 280 – HOBBIES
I thought I would have posted the second and last collection of pictures of Amanda and Logan well before, but life happens. So here is the rest of the images of Amanda and Logan before she gave birth to Dahlia shortly thereafter: I look forward to a day when we… Read More »Amanda and Logan – Pre-Dahlia No. 2
Today we are going to focus on the birthplace of (for now) the most famous person to ever come from Boone. The former First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Her birthplace is one of only two birthplaces of First Ladies that have been made historic sites. The other is the birthplace… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Mamie Doud Eisenhower Birthplace
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
I need to start by noting that today is the day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I’d like to share a teaching on The Good Samaritan from the last speech that King ever gave as my small part of honoring his legacy today: Let us develop… Read More »WPC – WEEK 279 – COMMERCIAL
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
There were a ton of pictures in the folder 2010-06-13. Some were from Johnathan’s Graduation Open House. Some were from Shannon’s Birthday Camping Trip. Others were of frogs. Even others were of insects. It is a truly great folder! By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was… Read More »2010-06-13
Here it is! The first week of Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I asked people to submit a picture that showed what they think, when they think of FAMILY. For the 67th week in a row, we had double digit submissions! But you didn’t come here to listen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 278 – FAMILY