I need to start by wishing everybody a Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Many of us (me included) aren’t having our typical Christmas, or even the Christmas that they remotely wanted. Remember it is okay to feel a mixture of feelings today, because this isn’t the Christmas you wanted. Maybe it… Read More »Merry Christmas – 2020
The March image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken at Badger Creek Recreation Area. It was taken in the sunflower field there. It was taken on July 25, 2020. It was taken with a Lensbaby lens. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS:… Read More »Rodan139: Community Thanksgiving
The February image for the Photography 139 2021 Calendar is a macro photo of my favorite flower, the moonflower. It is taken with a flash ring. It was taken on July 28, 2020. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS: FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro FOCAL… Read More »WPC – WEEK 275 – COLORFUL
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!
As I’ve started to distribute the Photography 139 2021 Calendars, it is time to start revealing the pictures that made the cut: Front Cover The front cover image is an HDR image of Naima wading into the pond at Dickcissel Park while the sun goes down in the west. It… Read More »2010-05-30
On Thanksgiving, my church (Boone First United Methodist) served nearly 800 free meals to the community. I could write about it, but why bother, when Kio has already done such a great job at that: Seven hundred seventy one meals were served at First United Methodist Church’s 23rd annual free… Read More »Community Thanksgiving – 2020
Today I want to share a few photos I took of Amanda and Logan a couple weeks before Dahlia was born. These were taken out at Don Williams and They were definitely looking for some silhouette pictures. You’ll be able to tell that, I’m sure… There is one more collection… Read More »Amanda and Logan – Pre-Dahlia No. 1
Here is another collection of pictures of me playing with the concept of freezing a flower in ice and then taking a picture of it. The flower is a zinnia. I believe that this is the time I switched to making ice with distilled water. I should have kept better… Read More »Marnie
It is with a heavy heart that I want to start today’s post by honoring my cousin Alan, who suddenly passed away last Monday morning. He was a wonderful person and will definitely be missed. Here is his obituary, so you can get to know him a little bit as… Read More »WPC – WEEK 273 – FOOD
This is just a small collection of pictures I took in my Mom’s backyard back in September. They were attached to a folder of a bunch of pictures I took for THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT. Cleaning these up, so I can file that folder into the proper folder in my… Read More »Dogs
There was a very large collection of images in the folder 2010-05-24. Most of them are flower pictures. Some taken from my yard. Others taken from Reiman Gardens. I’ll just get to it, because there is a ton of photos here: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery,… Read More »2010-05-24
I need to start the day by wishing a couple people a happy birthday. I need to start with my nephew Brandon. Happy birthday Brandon! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ It is also Frank’s birthday. Frank was instrumental in getting this… Read More »On the Rocks
Today’s collection of pictures was taken in the middle of August. I was still playing around with photographing a flower frozen in a block of ice. I was still using a normal daisy. This is a concept that I will continue to play with in the future and this wasn’t… Read More »Girl Don’t Play the Fool Now
Here is a collection of pictures I took at Dickcissel back in early September. Mostly of Naima, but one wildflower picture. Naima sure enjoys her trips to Dickcissel.
Most of the pictures in the folders 2010-05-09 & 2010-05-09 are from when I drove around with my Mom touring all the places she ever worked at. We did this tour right before she retired. It made me think about if I were to retire tomorrow (dare to dream I… Read More »2010-05-09 & 2010-05-09
Let’s face it. 2020 has been a terrible year. I could spend hours and hours polishing this turd, but a turd is still a turd. I basically only see 2 other people on a regular basis right now. Willy and I haven’t held a Friday Night Supper Club since March… Read More »Blessings 2020
Just a quick little collection of pictures from here and there to clean up some small folders that hadn’t been curated, so they can be put to bed and the robocopy script ran upon their heads. There are some larger photo shoots I really need to start tackling. Can’t put… Read More »Ivor the Engine Driver
When I got a refund for my Iowa State football season tickets back in August, I used the money and put it towards the purchase of a new lens. The biggest gap in my Sony mirrorless line up was what I would call a mid-telephoto lens. I don’t need a… Read More »Tamron 70-180 f/2.8
The pictures from the folder 2010-05-03 are from a Mother’s Day celebration at Carla and Jason’s old house. We celebrated a week early because Teresa was going to Kentucky for Mother’s Day. A few of the pictures in this collection were taken by Alexis: By adding these pictures to the… Read More »2010-05-03
Back in August there was a small birthday party for Kanoa. I took a few pictures, but mostly just pictures of Kanoa eating his cake. Which he apparently enjoyed very much. Here are some pictures: I did get to see Kanoa again on Saturday, but that is a topic for… Read More »Happy Birthday Kanoa!
It has been several years since I have done anything with the grapes in my yard. This year there was such a bounty of grapes, it felt like a waste to not make some grape jelly with them. Logan really wanted in on this because he has increasingly been getting… Read More »To Catherine