Recently I’ve been working on an organizational project as I prepare to get rid of a bunch of things in Boone’s annual Citywide Cleanup in a couple of weeks. Part of this has been organizing every (almost) picture that I have entered in a photo contest, both physically in a… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 1
Here is another small collection of some of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85 back in January: I’m still going to go into some detail about what makes the Lensbaby Velvet 85 such a special unique lens at some point. Just not today. +++++++ This is… Read More »More of that Velvet 85
EDITOR’S NOTE: I WROTE THIS POST BEFORE MY MOM PASSED AWAY, BUT I DON’T HAVE THE HEART TO CHANGE THE TEXT. The grand majority of pictures from the album are from my Mom’s Retirement Party. The other one if from Dickcissel. I haven’t looked at the pictures from the Retirement… Read More »2010-08-01
There is a very diverse collection of photos in the folder 2010-06-28. Most are from Shannon’s first attempt to skydive. That idea got shot down (not literally) because it was deemed to windy to do such a thing safely. There are also pictures of a reunion when Bill came to… Read More »2010-06-28
I need to start today’s post by wishing Bill a happy birthday. Happy birthday Bill! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ I’m combining the auxiliary images from the town sign harvesting trips I made to Dallas County and Polk County to harvest… Read More »Dallas County and Polk County Auxiliary Images
I need to start the day by wising Anders a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ A few weeks back I loaded up into the car with my Mom and Teresa as they joined me as I… Read More »Town Sign Project: Wright County
August 9, 2006. That was the date where I first took keyboard in hand and began typing out the blog that I entitled “An Artist’s Notebook”. I entitled that first post “First Journal Entry”. The categories for that first post were “Blogging”, “Contests”, “Jay”, and “Sara”. This is the first… Read More »Post #4,000
I need to start today by wishing Jesse a happy birthday. Happy birthday Jesse! I could post a thousand pictures of Jesse from thousands of adventures we shared. But you only get 5 and have to imagine the rest. Jesse, I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Banks
Let’s face it. 2020 has been a terrible year. I could spend hours and hours polishing this turd, but a turd is still a turd. I basically only see 2 other people on a regular basis right now. Willy and I haven’t held a Friday Night Supper Club since March… Read More »Blessings 2020
Covering 3 folders in this walk down to Memory Lane since a couple of them had barely any pictures in them. The pictures in the folders 2010-03-17, 2010-03-20, and 2010-03-25 involve mostly a series of publicity stills I took for an ACTORS production and a cruise around Boone County I… Read More »2010-03-17, 2010-03-20, & 2010-03-25
The pictures in the folder 2010-01-30 are from both THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. The flower pictures were taken for the theme PLANTS. THE PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT involves a broken mirror and Willy. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore… Read More »2010-01-30
I need to start by wishing Jay a happy birthday, so happy birthday Jay! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Here is a collection of pictures I took in my backyard in the middle of May: The picture of the peony bud… Read More »May Flowers
Most of the pictures in the folder 2010-01-02 are of a Personal Photo Project I worked on where I put a microphone next to a fish bowl and took a picture of it. This (like almost all of my photo projects) ended up being more difficult than I anticipated. Mostly… Read More »2010-01-02
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
The tree-shrub-bush that is right in front of my front door recently was the home to a robin’s nest. I managed to take a few pictures of the transformation from eggs, to nestling to a fledgling that hangs out in my cherry tree in the backyard. The picture from egg… Read More »Holy Astringent Plum-like Fruit!
I need to start by wishing everybody a happy Memorial Day! Today is a unique Memorial Day, as we honor both our military personnel that have died in military service and the over 100,000 Americans that have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, we will be in a better place… Read More »WPC – WEEK 245 – SELF-PORTRAIT
This is a bit of a different walk down memory lane. One of the first things I did when I started working from home was cleaning out what I guess what you would call my spare desk. I didn’t want to dump a bunch of work stuff on my normal… Read More »Chris’ New House 2009
There is a diverse collection of images in the folder 2009-10-31. Some of the pictures are from when I went tenderloining with the Defeneffes to Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe in Prairie City. Some are from when I used to have people I actually know trick-or-treat at my house. The rest… Read More »2009-10-31
Buckle up Nancy, this is going to be a long one! I need to start this post by wishing a very happy birthday to the middle child of the Bennett Sibling Triumvirate. Happy birthday Carla! Here are some pictures of Carla: I hope your birthday had the exact amounts of… Read More »Fly Iowa: The Final Chapter
I need to start today’s post by wishing a big happy birthday to Laura! I’m sure today she will have her hands full trying to corral Baby Tri-Force and she will be loving every second of it! Here are some Laura pictures: I hope it is a great birthday! +++++++… Read More »The 4th
The pictures in the folder 2009-09-09 are from two road trips I took back in 2009. One was a trip with my Mom, Grandma, and Teresa to Kalona. Kalona has always been one of my favorite places to visit. It has been too long since I have been there, that… Read More »2009-09-09