I need to start the day by wishing Andy a happy birthday. Happy birthday Andy! I hope your birthday is filled with all the joy you can handle! +++++++ I spent almost all of last week in Las Vegas working at the Computer Mine Convention. I didn’t get to see… Read More »Viva Las Vegas: Cell Phone Pictures
FRAME! Seemed like a good challenging theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! But was it popular? Did it fire up the creative juices of many people? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, February 13, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks… Read More »WPC – WEEK 388 – FRAME
Happy New Year to those of you sheeple that follow the Gregorian Calendar. I for one, moved to Unix time years ago. So if I have a birthday party this year (Sara wants me to have one, but I doubt it happens) the invites will list the time of the… Read More »Goodbye 2022.
I’m kicking the decision on Formal Portrait Sunday down the road for at least one more week. I wasn’t necessarily pleased with the overall body of work I put in during September for the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. I tried to make October a better month for… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – October 2022
Looking at my SELFIE PROJECT pictures from the month of October, I’m not sure I had a very active October. Seems like I barely left my house. I’ll try to be more active in November. Here are some of my favorite selfies from THE SELFIE PROJECT in October: October 1… Read More »Selfie Project – October 2022
Another month down and another month of THE SELFIE PROEJCT in the books. I think I had a pretty active August. At least in spurts. With Pufferbilly Days and the State Fair and some much needed vacation all in August, I did some things man. I don’t anticipate September being… Read More »Selfie Project – August 2022
While I’m still not ready to reveal what picture got into the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon and what “award” it received, I am ready to share some pictures from Baby Got Rack’s day at the Iowa State Fair. It was mostly great. We won 1st Place in our category… Read More »Baby Got Rack – Iowa State Fair – 2022
This is a reminder that tomorrow there is a dog and exotic animal pet show for Pufferbilly Days. A person could also enter a cat, but people don’t, cause… cat. I mean, it explains itself. However, I give this reminder with the caveat that it is possible that the Dog… Read More »Selfie Project – July 2022
Today is the last day to enter the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. I will be picking up the entries from the Chamber about 5 PM today. I’m excited to see how many entries we got this year. I know of at least 4 people that have told me they are… Read More »Baby Got Rack – Boone County Fair
On Saturday Baby Got Rack competed in the Boone County Fair Barbecue Competition. The Iowa Farm Bureau Cook-out is the technical name I believe. The bad news is that we were definitely rusty. In fact, it might have been the worst performance in Baby Got Rack’s storied career. The good… Read More »Baby Got Rack – Boone County Fair Prep
WORK sure can be a lot of WORK. But how many people put in the WORK of getting a WORK photo? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, July 11, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):… Read More »WPC – WEEK 357 – WORK
On Thursday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. For June, there was only one prompt. Grateful. Everyday, post a picture of something that makes you grateful. What I decided to do was every day take a picture with somebody that I am grateful… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – June 2022
A couple Saturdays back Scottie D. and I and his family hit up one of my favorite restaurants in Ames to try their tenderloin. That restaurant is Time To Roll. It is located in North Grand Mall and the reason I love them so much is they have a knock-off… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Ames Field Work
I don’t usually run THE SELFIE PROJECT in back to back years, but since I took a break from it for a bit in 2021, I decided to make an exception and bring it back in 2022. Before getting into my favorite images from January of 2022, I want to… Read More »Selfie Project – January 2022
I’ve decided to do the SELFIE PROJECT in 2022. I usually don’t do this in back to back years, but I thought I would give it a shot. Here are my favorite SELFIE PROJECT images from December: December 1 December 2 December 3 December 4 December 9 December 11 December… Read More »Selfie Project – December
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 I seem to have lost a ton of pictures. I’m grouping all the pictures that are in the folder 01JANUARY2011 together for this post: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following… Read More »01JANUARY2011
On Saturday night I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. It probably wasn’t the most exciting month, but I think we did some good work here now and then. Here are my favorites from July: July 2, 2021 July 3, 2021 July 4, 2021 July 5, 2021 July… Read More »Selfie Project – July 2021
When we left off, I had just won 1st Place in Black and White and 3rd Place in Color at the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, but had been completely rejected by the Iowa State Fair for the 4th year in a row. Whatever I was selling, the judges were not… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 2
Here is the final collection of images from the 2002 photo shoot with the Degeneffe Boys: I look forward to the 2021 Degeneffe Boys Photo Shoot. +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is HANDS: HANDS A HANDS image is pretty simple. It is… Read More »Austin & Porter 2020 C
Combining two folder as one folder only has a couple images in it. Most of the pictures from these folders are from an event know as Hedgegeddon. That was when I took out the hedge that surrounded my backyard. It was truly the battle of battles, but eventually with the… Read More »2010-07-29 & 2010-07-30
In case you couldn’t make it to church this morning, I got your back. Here is a devotional for the fourth Sunday of Lent. Here is a devotional from Reverend Dr. Heecheon Jeon. God so loved the world Rev. Dr. Heecheo Jeon John 3:16 Greetings! My name is Heecheon Jeon.… Read More »Austin & Porter 2020 B