Buckle up, this one could be a long post. I need to start by wishing Dawn a happy birthday. Happy birthday Dawn! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ I also need to wish a happy birthday to Baier. Happy birthday Baier! I… Read More »Wright County Auxiliary Images
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
Whew! This is a big one. Just by adding these pictures to the SmugMug Gallery from the folder 2010-04-29, I was able to fix 5 “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. I believe I added pictures to 14 different photo albums. The pictures in this folder are taken from over several days… Read More »2010-04-29
The grand majority of pictures from the folder 2010-04-19 are from the Iowa State’s Spring Game in 2010. There is also one picture that was used for Week 15 of Year 1 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme was LONG EXPOSURE. Looking through these pictures really made me miss… Read More »2010-04-19
I need to start off this day by wishing Sara a happy birthday. Happy birthday Sara! I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted it to be! +++++++ It is also Scottie D.’s birthday! Happy birthday Scottie D.! I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted… Read More »2010-04-11
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
Kenny Rogers passed away on Saturday. Celebrity deaths don’t usually have much effect on me. However, I was deeply saddened by the passing of Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rogers is my Mom’s favorite and therefore is one of my favorite country singers. I can’t stomach modern country, but I have more… Read More »The Gambler, He Broke Even
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to those of you that celebrate. I don’t. I’m mostly of Scottish and Welsh stock, so I’ve been trained by the English to hate the Irish and I do. I do hate the Irish. At least I hate the Notre Dame Fighitn’ Irish. They can straight… Read More »Pride. Integrity. Guts.
I need to start today’s post by wishing a happy birthday to Dawn. Happy birthday Dawn! Here are a few pictures of Dawn: I hope your birthday is as happy as you want it to be! +++++++ I also need to wish a happy birthday to Jason Baier. Happy birthday… Read More »Ledges
I need to start today’s post by wishing my niece Nora a very happy birthday! Nora is like 4 years old now. How did she get so old! Here are some Nora pictures: I hope Nora has a very happy birthday! +++++++ I still have quite a few pictures to… Read More »Baby Animals and Cows
Even though it is barely March, it is about time that I start turning my thoughts to the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. I hope to be more current with my images by the time I actually have to make a decision, but I am pretty sure I know of… Read More »ISFRXOII
Happy Thanksgiving! Every year on Thanksgiving I like to think about my many, many blessings. I know, real original. You should feel free to try it sometime. But make sure you let everybody know that I invented gratitude. I am thankful for my family, no matter how family is defined:… Read More »Gratitudo
This is final collection of Iowa State Fair pictures from 2018. Published just in time for the close of the 2019 Iowa State Fair. I’ll be spending the day at the Iowa State Fair solo today as all 4 of the people that were going to go with me all… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2018 – Misc.
You can still technically vote in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Poll right now, but it will shut down at some point today. So if you haven’t voted yet, then you need to get on it. By the time this post publishes, Baby Got Rack will have been judged and… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2018 – More Animals
There are just a couple of day s left to vote in my polls that will determine what pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting in 6 polls at once in too much for you, you can vote in one of the Hidden Treasures of Bone… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – Animals
There are now 5 days left to vote for what pictures I will enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If it is too much for you to take on all 6 polls at once, you can vote in the Photojournalism poll below. At this point, there is a clear… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – DNR
Seems like a good to share my favorite pictures from THE SELFIE PROJECT from June. I don’t know that my June was super active, but at least I actually left the state for the first time since early April. June 1 June 2 June 6 June 7 June 8 June… Read More »Selfie Project – June
Last Saturday in between seeing GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS and heading up to Kamrar, for a birthday dinner, I talked Nader into posing for Page 37 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Page 37 – Use aperture to capture melancholy. I took a few other pictures of Nader before picking out… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 37
I recently went to Pickles in Kamrar with Jesse, Jay, and Nader to celebrate my birthday. I packed up my camera and Rodan139 because I intended on knocking out a couple of needed photos on the trip. #1. I wanted get my GROUP PHOTO image for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.… Read More »Rodan139 – Kamrar
GROUP PORTRAIT turned out to be surprisingly popular. When I woke from my slumbers this morning, about 15 minutes after arriving at the computer mine, I had only received 2 submissions. I thought there was no way we would get to double digits for submissions. But as the morning unfolded,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 194 – GROUP PORTRAIT
There aren’t many pictures in the folders 2009-01-05 and 2009-01-25 so I decided to combine them into one post. The pictures are mostly from a trip around Boone during a snowstorm and Nader and I’s last trip to the Varsity Theater. Many people may not remember the Varsity. It was… Read More »2009-01-05 & 2009-01-25