A few weeks back I attended Evie’s birthday party. I didn’t take many photos as everybody else there had at least 1 camera and so my photo coverage of the event would have seemed excessive. Seriously, Evie has her own paparazzi. However, I did take a few photos of her… Read More »Birthday Number One
I hate the phrase “things happen for a reason” more than I hate any other phrase in the world. That doesn’t mean that I don’t necessarily believe in fate, but for the most part I don’t like fate. Its plans run contrary to my plans, no matter how hard I… Read More »Giant Steps
I made it to the State Fair twice this year. I went once on a Friday to see Maroon 5 with Jill. Then on the last day of the Fair I went with my Mom. I met up with Derrick, Jen, and Evie. We ran into Sara, Shawn, and Cousin… Read More »State Fairing It Up!
Sara graduated a few weeks back and to celebrate, she had a massive shindig. As my present to Sara, I set up a photobooth in her garage. here are a few pictures from that photobooth. Sara already was the most educated person that I know, but now the gap is… Read More »Sara’s Latest Graduation
As you may recall, I like to check in on some statistics every 100 posts or so to see how things are doing in popularity. However, this statistical check-in will mark the end of an era. I am officially retiring the Snapshots Gallery and the Artistic Gallery. The advent of… Read More »Post 1200
For the first time in several years, I was back to where I am supposed to be on the Fourth of July: eating Derrick’s cooking. Here are some pictures from that day. Next week’s random pictures feature a few pictures from the Iowa Band Festival, but in reality, they are… Read More »Independence Day
The best laid plans of mice and men… I had written this journal entry several days ahead of schedule because I was planning to be in Minnesota right now. I made all the appropriate plans, but fate took a hand and forced me to cancel my vacation. At about 3:35… Read More »RWPE Y2 #31 – LEADING LINES
These pictures come from the following folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/Pop Art I want to make one thing clear, I’ve always hated Pop Art and Andy Warhol. Although fascinatingly, very few of these pictures could be considered pop art, but I want to make sure that nobody misconstrues this collection as… Read More »The Archives: Edition Twenty-Eight
I’ll just confess that my picture this week was not the intended picture. But I did what I could after I had some kind of memory card failure where I lost my original picture. Here are the submissions for NIGHT: Christopher D. Bennett Dawn Krause Mike Vest A Mike Vest… Read More »RWPE Y2 #30 – NIGHT
Soul Mending This Personal Photo Project was to photograph around an Amish farm on my trip to Kalona with Sara, Cousin Amy and the Funk. Here are a few more pictures from the farm. Next week’s Personal Photo Project involves lilies.
A few weeks back I went on a road trip with Sara, Cousin Amy, and the Funk to have lunch at an Amish woman’s house in Kalona. The trip was set up by the Funk who has ties to the Amish community in Kalona as she is formerly Amish. I’ve… Read More »Kalona Road Trip
The eldest of today’s birthday celebrants is Jill! Here is my birthday photo tribute to Jill! Alexis would be up next for the birthday tribute!
Today is also Derrick’s birthday! Here is my photo tribute to Derrick! Wow! I photograph Derrick a lot! I hope this makes his birthday that much happier!
There are 3 very special people that were born on July 12 and they are each worthy of their own individual birthday photo tribute. So I will start from youngest and go to oldest. Here is my photo birthday tribute to Logan:
Mad with Joy There can be no doubt that there are certain subjects that I photograph for certain people. For example, I photograph tulips and roses for my Mom. I photograph daisies and lilies for Jill. (A fact that lead to a rather embarrassing phone call recently that the story… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #75 Alpha
I’ve put together this little photo tribute to Jay to celebrate his birthday. Looks like Derrick, Jill and Logan are up next for birthday photo tributes!
Today is Jen’s birthday, so Happy Birthday to Jen!!! Looks like Jay is up next for the birthday photo tribute!
These pictures come from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Labels I once had an idea where I had my friends do a little exercise in self-realization. I asked them to pick a word. One word that they wanted the world to think of when the world saw them. Then I had them write… Read More »The Archives: Edition Twenty-One
Last week I removed and disassembled the Friend Wall. It is no longer in existence. No longer do I have friends on my wall. I replaced the Friend Wall with the 9 Emotions Project Wall. The centerpiece of this new “exhibit” is a 24×36 print of the picture below. A… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #70
There were a few submissions for COLORFUL. Here they are: IMAGE LOSTSara Junck IMAGE LOSTJulie Johnson Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest I’ve been down to the Random Theme Generator and it gave me the following theme: PAINTING WITH LIGHT A look back at last year’s PAINTING WITH LIGHT submissions: PAINTING… Read More »RWPE Y2 #19 – COLORFUL
It is time once again for me to to do a random look at some of the statistics on the website. First up is what are the 10 Most Popular Images in the Artistic Galler. This one is actually somewhat of a shocker. A picture of Brandon has went from… Read More »Post No. 1,101