So far TRIANGLE has been a fairly popular theme. In fact, it was a record setting theme! More on that later. Heading into the third week of Year 9 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, these were the current streaks: * Mike Vest – 1 week * Michelle Haupt – 1… Read More »WPC – WEEK 332 – TRIANGLE
It appears that ROCK was a fairly popular theme. There were a decent amount of submissions. Heading in to the second week of Year 9 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, these were the current streaks: * Micky Augustin – 1 week * Linda Bennett – 1 week * Monica Henning… Read More »WPC – WEEK 331 – ROCK
As we are about to kickoff the 9th Year of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE (birthed into this world kicking and screaming as the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT) I thought we could look at what we accomplished as a community in Year 8. + There were 866 total submissions by 35… Read More »WPC – WEEK 330 – BLACK + WHITE
Here we are. The end of Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. There were 866 images submitted this year. Smashing the record set by Year 7, 807. Hopefully we break the record again in Year 9. To have a look at them, click on the link below: WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »WPC – WEEK 329 – EDUCATION
Can you believe that this is the 4,250th post in this crazy little thing called “An Artist’s Notebook’. 4,250 posts! It has been 5,549 days since I took keyboard in hand on August 9, 2006 and typed these words: So here is the first journal entry. The name of that… Read More »Journal Entry #4,250
The images in the folder 2011-02-09 are actually taken on film. They are double exposures. I love double exposures. Yes, you can certainly fake double exposures with Photoshop and some digital cameras will do them. In fact, I need to get back into that. In fact, I need to run… Read More »2011-02-09
Yesterday I completed yet another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. I was surprised how packed a month it was. When I looked back at some of the images, I thought, “that happened in August? It feels like such a long time ago!” Here are my favorites from August: August… Read More »Selfie Project – August 2021
On the first day of the Iowa State Fair I attended it with Jen, Layla, and Evie. Evie was performing with her Irish Dance Team. We wandered around the Fair for several hours before and after watching Evie perform. Here on some of the pictures from the day: I also… Read More »First Day of the Fair
We are having some kind of sale at my Mom’s garage tonight and tomorrow morning. The address is 111 South Benton Street. The sale tonight will start at 4 and end when people stop showing up. Tomorrow it will start at 7 and end when people stop showing up. Probably… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Pet Show – 2021
I want to start today by announcing that there will be some kind Estate/Garage/Tag/Rummage Sale at my Mom’s house on Friday evening and Saturday morning. I’m not really 100% sure of the hours, but the location is in the garage on the alley. The alley is a dead end, so… Read More »WPC – WEEK 309 – MOVEMENT
The majority of the pictures in the folder 2010-11-01 are from when the Iowa State Cyclones bested the Kansas Jayhawks on the gridiron. I believe that was like 7 Kansas football coaches ago. Back then there coach was a guy who used to coach at Buffalo. Their current coach is… Read More »2010-11-01
So many of the folders 2010-10-04, 2010-10-11, 2010-10-12, 2010-10-15, and 2010-10-16 had so few images, that I decided to make a mega conglomeration. There are pictures here that were used for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE (back then known as the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT) and pictures used for the program… Read More »2010-10-04, 2010-10-11, 2010-10-12, 2010-10-15, and 2010-10-16
There were large collections of images in the folders 2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, or 2010-09-27 so I combined them into one post. These include pictures of an Iowa State-Kansas State football game, pictures taken shortly after Evie was born, and pictures of Elainie playing football. By adding these pictures to the Photography… Read More »2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, and 2010-09-27
Here we are, the last day of 2020. That means it is time for me to share the December image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar. Because of the pandemic, I got to deliver very few calendars in person this year. I think the only reactions that I got to… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – SOME CHURCHES
You know that BLACK AND WHITE is my favorite theme. You know darn well that I’m going to have lots of BLACK AND WHITE alternates. Lots and lots of alternates. Actually I think I have less alternates than I normally do for BLACK AND WHITE. That being said, I’m still… Read More »Put that Fire in Your Soul
Double nickels people! Sammy Haggar might not be able to drive 55, but we can do 55 straight weeks of double digits like it ain’t no thing. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp… Read More »WPC – WEEK 266 – BLACK AND WHITE
Thought that this would be a good day to share the balance of pictures I took while I was tooling around Boone County looking for my BLACK AND WHITE and Happy Independence Day photos. The sign says: On July 31, 1943 a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Bomber Ser. No… Read More »Happy Birthday!
Need to start by wishing Jen a very happy birthday. Happy birthday Jen! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be. Sorry about the lack of iris pictures. +++++++ Time for another and I believe the last collection of tulip pictures for this year. All… Read More »Still Laughing – 2020, Too
Hey, I screwed up the schedule of posts and 2 posts accidentally posted at the same time yesterday. This one, that I took back down and re-posted and another one with daffodils. It is possible that you didn’t get the post about the daffodils yesterday. If that is the case,… Read More »Suds, Dickcissel, and Lensbaby Redux
31 straight weeks of double digit submissions!! The third straight week that I didn’t send any reminder text messages this morning and still made double digits like it ain’t no thing, but a chicken wing on a string. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot… Read More »WPC – WEEK 242 – TREE
December was a truly busy month. I actually left the state more than one. I visited places like Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. I feel I ended this attempt at THE SELFIE PROJECT fairly strong. Here are some of my favorite pictures from December: December 1 December… Read More »Selfie Project – December