Year 2 started out with a bang! Lots of submissions! First time submitter! Welcome aboard Alicia Vermeys! Here are the submissions for REFLECTIONS: Christopher D. Bennett Alicia Vermeys Dawn Krause Julie Johnson A Julie Johnson B Mike Vest Shannon Bardole Dawn Poetry Submission: Reflections She can’t be too careful anymore,… Read More »RWPE Y2 #1: Reflections
It is hard to believe that this journal has reached entry 1,000. Since I enjoy rather meaningless statistics, I’m going to go over a few right now. According to how many times they have been viewed, these are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Artistic Gallery: 1. Gazing Ball… Read More »Journal Entry One-Thousand
It is the end of Year 1 for the Random Weekly Photo Experiment. The final theme was EYE. Here are the submissions: Becky Perkovich B Christopher D. Bennett Shannon Bardole Mike Vest Becky Perkovich A IMAGE LOST Dawn Krause IMAGE LOST Scott Krause The themes for this year have been… Read More »RWPE #52 – Eye
There were more submissions for PEACE OF MIND than I expected with the business of the holiday season. That is pleasing to me. Here are the submissions: Christopher D. Bennett Dawn Krause Mike Vest Shannon Bardole So it has come down to one final theme. Then this project has officially… Read More »RWPE #51 – Peace of Mind
Exactly the same number of people that love LOVE, loved RESTAURANTS. Here are the submissions: Christopher D. Bennett Shannon Bardole of Little White Lye Soap Dawn Krause of Impassioned Versifier Mike Vest of Waxen Media This is it. Only 2 themes left. Somebody with a really good memory and a… Read More »RWPE #50 – Restaurants
I Recommend Pleasant There is a long and elaborate story about how this rabbit came into my possession. The details that you need to know are that he was homeless so I opened up my home to him. To slightly elaborate, I borrowed him from Dawn to photograph. While he… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #46 Alpha
Turtle Thoughts are Turtle Special thanks should go to Dawn for loaning me this homeless turtle and to Shannon for acting as turtle wrangler on the inside photos of my stinky friend. More pictures from the Turtle Thoughts are Turtle Photo Sessions. My understanding is that this homeless turtle eventually… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #45
This week there is a submission from somebody I have never met. I think that is an exciting development. Here are the submissions for DIAGONAL RULE: Mike Vest of Waxen Media Shannon Bardole of Little White Lye Soap Christopher D. Bennett Julie Johnson of The Joy Is In The Journey… Read More »RWPE #45 – Diagonal Rule
There were a fair amount of submissions for last week’s theme HANDS. Here are the submissions: Christopher D. Bennett Angie DeWaard Julie Johnson Mike Vest Shannon Bardole The Random Generator has been fired up and it has spit out an interesting theme for this week. Diagonal Rule This is a… Read More »RWPE #44 – Hands
Here is a copy of the journal I kept while I was on vacation last week. It covers parts of 10 days and over 1300 miles. While I doubt anybody reads this whole thing, it was an important exercise for me. There are no pictures, but I will post some… Read More »Vacation Journal
I think that at the aggregate level, this is the best batch of submissions to date. Here are the submissions for SHADOWS: Shannon Bardole Christopher D. Bennett Becky Perkovich Carla Stensland A Carla Stensland B Dawn Krause Michael Vest Julie Johnson Dawn’s Poetry Submission Shadows Something lurks beneath the bright… Read More »RWPE #42 – Shadows
Some of the formal pictures from Jeff and Monica’s wedding. Note the size of Monica’s family! Before I forget, I should thank Shannon for being my photo assistant on this day. Up next: Reception photos!!
Here are this week’s submissions for DRY: Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest Shannon Bardole Dawn Krause Dawn’s poetry submission: Dry The wind blows through the Sahara of my mind I’m reaching out but now your love’s gone blind It took so long to reach my heart’s turning point Now it… Read More »RWPE #41 – Dry
Last week’s theme ODD CAMERA ANGLE worked up the creative juices of more people than I was expecting. That makes me even more pumped for next week! Shannon Bardole Mike Vest Julie Johnson Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Dawn’s poetry submission: Odd Angle You may say that I’m a cynic… Read More »RWPE #40 – Odd Camera Angle
Cheaper than Therapy I co-hosted a Baby Shower for Baby G. with Sara a couple months back. Sara wanted a photobooth for the shower, so I made a makeshift one in her garage. It worked well enough and we were able to use the pictures in a book of baby… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #37
Looks like Shannon and Angie did find RWPE addictive. They submitted again for last week’s theme FACE. However, submissions were kind of light this week. Perhaps not as many people know people with faces as I would have suspected. Here are the submissions for FACE: Mike Vest Angie DeWaard Christopher… Read More »RWPE #38 – Face
I’m very excited to announce that there were 3 brand new first time contributors. Shannon Bardole, Angie Dewaard and Geri Derner all contributed photos for the first time ever. Hopefully they will find it addictive and become regular contributors. Here are this week’s submissions for HOPE: Mike Vest Geri Derner… Read More »RWPE #37 – Hope
On Sunday I got together with Shannon to take pictures of her new haircut. Lots of these pictures don’t show off the new do, but they were taken at the same time. Shannon also did some turtle wrangling for me on a Personal Photo Project that will be published sometime… Read More »Coiffure
Here are some pictures from a couple of celebrations that I attended a long while ago, but never quite found the time to post: Johnathan’s Graduation Open House Shannon Birthday Campout
Small people talk about other people. Average people talk about things. Great people talk about ideas. When I first began my sentence with the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire, there was a ludicrous sign posted in the crew room that had this observation written on it. I’m not… Read More »The Dumbest Thing Shannon Bardole has Ever Done
Every 100 or so posts, I like to make a list of the most popular pictures on this blog. Here is the list of the 10 most popular photos in the Artistic Gallery. 1. Outburst of the Soul 2. Self-Portrait 3. Jen Relaxing Between Sets 4. Grizzly McAlpine 5. Rebecca… Read More »Post No. 850