It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a… Read More »Available as Another Possibility
My favorite theme was a very popular theme. BLACK & WHITE had a plethora of submissions from such exotic places as New York City to Indianola to Mount Pleasant to Roland to Woodward to near Adel. I was expecting a submission from Canada, but I’m guessing that that person just… Read More »WPC – WEEK 202 – BLACK & WHITE
Now that the Boone County Fair is winding down and my collection of Boone County Fair Photography Contest entries are bagged up and safely stowed in one of the now TWO trunks that archive my past photo contest entries, I can release the results to the general public that didn’t… Read More »Boone County Fair Photography Contest Results
REMINDER that starting tomorrow, my 5 entries for the Boone County Fair should be on display. They usually put them out about noon. They will be displayed in the Community Building. Thanks to: Logan Kahler Jesse Howard Michelle Haupt Shannon Bardole-Foley Monica Henning For selecting the 5 entries. Special thanks… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 16
Dipping back into the 2018 backlog today. There is a one room schoolhouse that has been restored and is occasionally open to the public northwest of Boone. One June day, when we were returning home from our post church meal, Teresa, Logan, Mom, and I stopped to check it out.… Read More »One is the Loneliest Number
SIGNS were a very popular theme. In fact, it was the third week in a row that we hit double digits for submissions. I have a feeling that this week’s theme wont’t be so popular. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about submission rates,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 200 – SIGNS
A week ago I went to my mailbox and found the results sheet from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon sitting in my mailbox waiting for me. The Iowa State Fair Photography Salon is one of the most prestigious and hardest photo contests in the state. I usually count myself… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 36
Seems like a good to share my favorite pictures from THE SELFIE PROJECT from June. I don’t know that my June was super active, but at least I actually left the state for the first time since early April. June 1 June 2 June 6 June 7 June 8 June… Read More »Selfie Project – June
If you are in possession of a Photography 139 Calendar, you know that today is Naima’s birthday! She will probably be lazing around the house most of the night. But I’ll probably take her on a birthday trip to the park. So if you are going to drop by with… Read More »Happy Birthday Naima!!!
We are approaching the Boone County Fair, which means that I need to select pictures for the Boone County Fair Photo Contest. I am picking those pictures in the same way that I did last year. I’m letting other people pick them for me. The next FOUR people that text… Read More »WPC – WEEK 199 – ROAD TRIP
While BREAKFAST was a universally hated theme, CANDID PORTRAIT made a bit of a rebound. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Andy Sharp Becky Parmelee Kim Barker Kim Barker Andy Sharp Christopher D.… Read More »WPC – WEEK 198 – CANDID PORTRAIT
In the folder called 04-11-09 is a photographic record of one of the least favorite things my church has done. They used to do this every Good Friday for several years. They would have 3 youths dress up and smear them with fake blood and mud and have them pretend… Read More »04-11-09
Ever since the first time I flipped through THE PHOTO JOURNAL and landed on Page 109, I knew exactly where I wanted to take that picture. I flipped flopped on what I wanted the subject to be, but I never waiver on the setting. It wasn’t until a week or… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 109
If things went right for me yesterday, I’m currently in Rapid City, South Dakota on a mission trip with the Boone First United Methodist Church with 20 youths and 4 other chaperones. In fact, at 12:01 PM, I am most likely sitting down and taking a lunch break at the… Read More »WEEK 198 REVEAL
More from that 2018 backlog. More flower pictures from my backyard. Last year I had a resurgence of hollyhocks. I hadn’t had any for a couple years, but in 2018 they came back with a fury. In 2019 I’m going to have a few hollyhocks, but nothing like 2018. Also… Read More »Talking About Them Hocks
Once again, we had a week of double digit submissions. I believe that to be the third consecutive week. People like TREE(s). A bunch of TREE huggers,the lot of you! Which is good, because people who don’t like TREE(s) aren’t good people. But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 196 – TREE
Today’s post is actually a mixture of the backlog and new pictures. I never got around to posting pictures from the 2018 Methodist Men Pie Auction. Last Sunday we had the 2019 Methodist Men Pie Auction. The proceeds for both go to support the Youth Group Mission Trip. Between the… Read More »Bake the World a Better Place
It has been probably too long since I hammered away at the 2018 backlog. Here are some picture from Naima at Dickcissel Park, running around, having a good time. I might need to spend some time and get this backlog hammered out.
Insert comment on reaching double digits in submissions again. Insert vague reference to GONE WITH THE WIND. Submissions: Logan Kahler Logan Kahler Andy Sharp Kim Barker Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland Carla Stensland Carla Stensland Micky Augustin Cathie Raley Cathie Raley Aubrey and Katelyn Augustin Insert reference to PLAN 9… Read More »WPC – WEEK 195 – PARK
Last Saturday in between seeing GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS and heading up to Kamrar, for a birthday dinner, I talked Nader into posing for Page 37 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Page 37 – Use aperture to capture melancholy. I took a few other pictures of Nader before picking out… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 37
Now seems like as good of a time as any to check back in with THE SELFIE PROJECT and see what “amazing” things I did in the month of May. Some of these things I had already forgot about! May 1 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May… Read More »Selfie Project – May