5/6 Even though this picture was taken only a couple of weeks ago, it some how feels dated. Here are a few alternates from the 5/6 Photo Session: I also took a couple of pictures that are kind of a dry run for a future Personal Photo Project. > Looking… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #36
4/6 Only 2(3) more parts of this project to go. Here are the links to review the first 3 parts of the project: 1/6 2/6 3/6 Here are a few more images from the 4/6 Photo Shoot: Part 5 of this project will be shot in early September and Part… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #32
I’m going to publish the parts of the Personal Photo Project out of order compared to when they were taken relative to other Personal Photo Projects. I am doing this so that these pictures don’t get pushed back well past the birth of Baby Gorshe. 3 of 6 Here are… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #29
“This song is about a man that tells the truth about things that didn’t happen. It seems to be a male thing.” -Glen Hansard – Introducing “Lies” at First Avenue – July 25, 2010 Most of this comes from an email that I wrote about my weekend in Minnesota. Sara… Read More »In This Old Purple Town
“DOWN GOES NATURE! DOWN GOES NATURE! DOWN GOES NATURE!” -The voice of Howard Cosell inside my head At exactly 10 PM on July 29. 2010, I popped the top on two bottles of Virgil’s Micro-brewed Root Beer and Dawn and I celebrated the end of Hedgegeddon. We had just dumped… Read More »Megiddo
2/6 This is a 6 (in reality a 7 part project but shhhh….. both of you that know the endgame) part project. In case you have forgotten: Part 1 More pictures from The 2/6 Photo Session: > Part 3/6 is scheduled to be published on September 17. I am headed… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 27
Happy Birthday Logan! Happy Birthday Derrick! This Journal Entry also marks a milestone for Derrick. He has become the 4th person to reach triple digits in Journal Entries about them. However, I promised 3 Happy Birthdays…. Happy Birthday Jill!
Every 100 or so posts, I like to make a list of the most popular pictures on this blog. Here is the list of the 10 most popular photos in the Artistic Gallery. 1. Outburst of the Soul 2. Self-Portrait 3. Jen Relaxing Between Sets 4. Grizzly McAlpine 5. Rebecca… Read More »Post No. 850
This past Sunday was Hedgegeddon (pronounced Yardegeddon in the Jansonian dialect) and it was a complete and utter disaster. It rained all weekend (or so it seemed) and the rain didn’t stop for Hedgegeddon. In the end Hedgegeddon Round 1 – You Win this Time Mother Nature! was a complete… Read More »Holy Hollyhocks!
I had a pretty awesome Memorial Day Weekend and saw all of the right people. Plus, my grill got quite the workout. The weekend started with FNSC at my humble abode. The group core was there, plus Jesse and Dawn. Jesse, Willy and I hung by the fire pit until… Read More »Memorial Day Weekend
I had Nate and Bethany staying with me this weekend. I let Nate choose my submission for RWPE and to be real honest, he actually picked my least favorite picture from the session. Regardless, I thought I would share a few more pictures from last week’s RWPE featuring a white… Read More »Euphony
Theories Pass Derrick likes to tell a story (and I like to listen) about the album cover for Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother. This album features a picture of a cow. The story goes that the reason that this picture was selected for the album cover is that no… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 19
I had my, what could theoretically become, annual Birthday Barbecue on Saturday. I would like to thank all of the people that attended and made the evening special: Bardole, Shannon Bennett, Charlotte Cousin, Amy Daniel, Jeffrey Degeneffe, Austin Degeneffe, Melissa Degeneffe, Scott Dill, Colby Dill, Dan Dill, DJ Gorshe, Derrick… Read More »A Small, Intimate Gathering
I woke up on Saturday morning and decided today was a good day to do yard work. I don’t normally reward myself because just being me is quite its own reward, but I knew that I wanted to work up an extremely healthy appetite for the night’s dining. I was… Read More »Vacation Day 8 – The Cinema
This is the first Personal Photo Project of the Week where I didn’t actually take the pictures. I just designed them. Sara was kind enough to take time off from her studies to come up and take these pictures that graced my birthday barbecue invitations. These pictures are not presented… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 16
I was set on going back to the Cyclone State on Tuesday night after visiting Faust on his day off, but Bethany and Becca requested that I stay one more night. I had no plans for Wednesday (Sara’s attempt to convince me to go to Iowa City failed since she… Read More »Vacation Day 4 – Cotton Candy
I woke up early on Monday morning. I’m not sure if it was the excitement of the forthcoming trip or if the rumors of Greg McDermott’s departure were so exciting to me that I was like a little kid on Christmas anxiously awaiting the chance to rip the wrapping paper… Read More »Vacation Day 3 – Guinea Pig Denial
On Day 2 of my vacation, 1 of my major accomplishments was getting Willy and Derrick together and moving a tub. We borrowed my uncle Butch’s truck and picked up the tub from Toby’s backyard. The tub used to be a planter and since it was raining all day, the… Read More »Vacation Day 2 – The Tub
Perfectly Themselves I Perfectly Themselves II These pictures would end up in The Fail Trunk in my basement if they were any more than just digital images. However, because of the failure of these images, I have figured out the error of my ways and now know how to light… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 12
“This is the end, Beautiful friend, This is the end, Of our elaborate plans, the end, Of everything that stands, the end, No safety or surprise, the end.” – The Doors (The End) Another college basketball season has come to an end. It is a sad, sad day. At least… Read More »3Peat