This is the final collection of pictures from Custer State Park in South Dakota. In fact, I’ve almost come to the end of the pictures from my trip to South Dakota with my Mom. The only ones left to curate and edit are the pictures from Mount Rushmore. Even though… Read More »Custer State Park Vol. 3
While it is true that Photography 139 doesn’t take holidays, it is also true that Photography 139, okay me, can try to rush stuff together and throw it all together because while they will still post on say Memorial Day, they don’t have all that much time. This lead me… Read More »I’m Feeling It; You Don’t Like It Then Deal with It; And if God Ain’t Real; Real Isn’t
Today is as good as any to check into the back log and post some more pictures from my trip to Custer State Park with my Mom. I wouldn’t say that Custer State Park was a disappointment, but it didn’t quite live up to the hype. I do feel however… Read More »Custer State Park Vol. 2
Custer State Park was one of the most hyped up Black Hills location that my Mom and I were told to visit. Some people even indicated that it might be the best part of the trip. The reason: Buffalo! Repeatedly, I was told that when we went to Custer State… Read More »Custer State Park Vol. 1
The world wasn’t ready for these alternate TOY images on Monday. Most of these pictures are taken in the Photography 139 Backyard Studio where photography was often disturbed by 2 raucous dogs that had a whole yard to play in, but seemed to want to only play right on top… Read More »You Know I’ll Leave ‘Em Changing; ‘Cause You Know I’m Real with It; Don’t Care if You Feeling It!
Several people decided to play around with the TOY theme for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. However, you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came here to see the submissions: Cathie Raley Christopher D. Bennett Micky Augustin Tamara Peterson Kim Barker Andy… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 140 – TOY
The final set of pictures from my brief sojourn through the Badlands with my Mom: That is it. That is the last of the Badlands pictures. Still have plenty of pictures from my trip to South Dakota to publish though. I’ll get through them all, some day. +++++++++++++++ Actually that… Read More »Badlands Vol. 5
A few more pictures of the Badlands from my quick trip through their with my Mom: One last set of pictures from the Badlands sitting in the hopper!
More pictures of my brief trip through the Badlands with my Mom: More pictures from the Badlands in the coming days!
Time to hit the backlog again. More pictures from my trip through the Badlands with my Mom: More from this trip coming your way at some point in the near future!
The images in this blog are from the folder 05-03-08: By adding these images to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following historical An Artist’s Notebook entry to its original glory: CARDINAL GYMNASTICS ACADEMY The pictures of Alexis doing gymnastics was at her gymnastics recital,… Read More »05-03-08
So here is the first journal entry. I felt like having as pretentious sounding name as possible for my journal. I have a few goals about this journal. My main goal is just to actually write in it. My second goal is to be as truthful as possible towards my… Read More »Mr. 3000
Time to hit up the backlog again. This time, to my quick trip through Badlands National Park with my Mom: More pictures from Badlands are in the hopper. Same Photography 139 Channel. Possibly a different Photography 139 Time.
Every day is a good day to start a post with a quote from Malcolm X. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. I start with this quote because yesterday, Logan graduated from the finest university in all the… Read More »Tomorrow Belongs to the People Who Prepare for it Today
The following images (and this collection is all over the place) came from the folder 04-30-08: Karen One of the bitter parts of this collection is that Karen has passed away since this picture was taken. Many of these pictures were taken during Olivia’s Stitching Time. A sewing circle that… Read More »04-30-08
Several weeks back I headed up to Minnesota to celebrate Nora’s 2nd birthday. Took a few photos. Thought I’d share a few photos: Nora is so impressed with my gift! She is so cute! I can hardly wait until Christmas when I can giver her more books that don’t excite… Read More »Birthday!!!
A good week of submissions for ARCHITECTURE. I have no doubt that my outhouse picture inspired many a person to submit this week. This week, the Photography 139 Empire extended as far east as Chicago. As far north as Roland, Iowa. As far west as the Des Moines Airport. As… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 137 – ARCHITECTURE
Time to hit up the back log. These pictures are from Russell, Jesse, and I’s trip to Memphis to watch Iowa State stomp the Memphis Tigers in the Liberty Bowl. I am a fan of Elvis. I get that from my Mom. From her I grew up listening to Elvis… Read More »Graceland
Since the weather outside has been turning less frightful, I’ve been trying to take Naima on a walk or at least an adventure about every day. At last week’s Friday Night Supper Club, I nearly nodded off after consume massive amounts of Casey’s Taco and Hot Sausage pizza, while watching… Read More »No! Not Bird Defecation AND Excretion!
This is one of probably 2 entries for An Artist’s Notebook about my Saturday morning last. This is about the later part of my morning, but you must know a little bit about the early morning to understand how this strange turn of events happened. The earliest part of my… Read More »Miller Estate Auction
On Friday and Saturday of last week I did a little bit of Town Sign harvesting. The full story will follow the new signs, but I’ll just say that I on both trips I made some (by my standards) pretty cool discoveries. Elkhart, Iowa Huxley, Iowa Cooper, Iowa Jamaica, Iowa… Read More »The Town Sign Project: Vol 5