A pretty decent amount of submissions to ring in Year 3 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE (REDUX). Including a submission from first time submitter Katelyn Augustin. She also might be the youngest to ever submit as well. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 105 – FAMILY
It is the time where I reveal what photos I entered into the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, but first the good news and the “bad” news. The good news is that my sister Carla cleaned up at the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. She got 1st Place in Hidden Treasures of… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest – 2017
Once a year at my church we have Critter Sunday. On Critter Sunday people bring in their pets to get blessed. I took some photos and then after Naima got blessed Jaxon Schoff took over and finished up the event. Here are some photos from the event: Special thanks to… Read More »Critter Sunday – 2017
Participation rates took a pretty good hit for the theme of HATE. I was expecting this, but I think it will rebound this week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Angie DeWaard 1 Angie DeWaard… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 102 – HATE
Here are the submissions for HUMANIZE for last week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Bill Wentworth Kim Barker Micky Augustin Mike Vest Sheri Fakhouri Christopher D. Bennett Teresa Kahler Tamara Peterson 1 Tamara Peterson 2 Cathie Raley Hopefully you guys have already got to work on your interpretations for this week’s theme…… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 101 – HUMANIZE
One of the many benefits of having Johnathan living with me is that I have a photo assistant hanging around the house that is more useful than Naima. So thanks to him for helping out by taking a couple of these pictures and posing for the other two. I’m actually… Read More »Another New Toy
YELLOW really got the old creative juices flowing. I’d reckon that there is close to a record number of submissions this week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see this week’s submissions. Here they are: Angie DeWaard Brooke… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 99 – YELLOW
A couple months back Mom, Teresa, Logan, and I hopped into a vehicle of some kind and headed due east for famous What Cheer, Iowa and it’s even more famous flea market. It didn’t disappoint. I think a person could spend all day there and still not see all the… Read More »All the Fleas!
A few Sundays back was the Methodist Men’s 4th Annual Pie Auction. All the money raised wen to support youth activities in the church. Teresa took the majority of these pictures as I was working the event: The Pie Auction was a rousing success and a plethora of moola was… Read More »4th Annual Pie Auction
This week I had a technology snafu, so if you emailed in a picture before the 11 AM deadline and don’t see it posted, just email it to me again and I’ll get it up. Late, but I’ll get it up. But you didn’t come here to talk all tommyrot… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 90 – PURPLE
Here is another tulip photo from my brief trip to the Pella Tulip Festival: No Kio, no pictures of What Cheer yet. But they are in the pipe. PARTICULARS CAMERA: Sony ILCA-77M2 ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm APERTURE: f/5 EXPOSURE: 1/160 DATE: 05/06/2017 – 16:24 NO GPS DATA RECORDED PHOTO… Read More »FTD
A couple Saturdays back I loaded up into an automobile with Mom, Teresa, and Logan and we headed to the What Cheer Flea Market. This photo has nothing to do with What Cheer, Iowa. On the way back we went through Pella to check out their world famous tulips. Here… Read More »The Great What Cheer Road Trip Photo No. 1
On Wednesday night we had former Iowa State basketball player and current Christian Missionary Jake Sullivan come speak to our youth group. We had a potluck dinner and then Sarah G. ran Devotions before he spoke. I wish more of you would’ve made it, because he gave a great and… Read More »Acts 2 Collective – Getting in the Dirt
Now would be a good time to check in on the Selfie Project. I’ve attempted and failed at this project 3 times now. The farthest I’ve ever made it is 116 days. I feel like this just might be the year. Here are some of my favorites from March: March… Read More »March
Before Alexis took off for the Navy, Elainie came home. We used this as an opportunity for an impromptu family photo. Thanks to Ernie for taking the photo! More from this photo shoot coming at some point.
This is a good time to check back in with the SELFIE PROJECT. These are some of my favorite images from February: February 2 February 5 February 6 February 7 February 11 February 13 February 17 February 18 February 19 February 21 February 24 February 25 February 26 February 27… Read More »Selfie Project – February
Looks like the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE went on Spring Break. Perhaps SILHOUETTE is too challenging of a theme. I’m not sure, but participation numbers this week are as low as they’ve ever been. Worries me that the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE might be on the way out. I guess we’ll see… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 78 – SILHOUETTE
This blog has hit a milestone. This is the 2500th post since I started “An Artist’s Notebook” on August 9, 2006. A lot of different things have went through these pages over the last 10+ years, but I hope I’ve stayed true to the original vision I laid down in… Read More »Post No. 2500
Last Sunday Mom, Teresa, Vi, and I loaded up into the car and traveled to the great north to visit Andrea, Josh, Wesley, and Grace. It was a great time, but perhaps the highlight was going up into Andrea’s church’s dome with Josh. Here are a few of my favorite… Read More »The Dome
Last night at Youth Group, as we were finishing up our re-writing of the Ten Commandments we had a special guest. Teresa brought her new pooch Mocha for the kids to play with and to illustrate a point about coveting. Here are a few pictures from last night: Most of… Read More »Special Guest
So I tried and failed at a Selfie Project in 2016. I’m trying again in 2017. Last year I took the pictures with Blue Boy. Who you may remember is my Canon point & shoot. This year I’m going to take the pictures with the front facing camera on my… Read More »Selfie Project of 2017