A weird thing is happening in Boone tomorrow night. Boone is having a Black Lives Matter event. I have to say that I am pretty shocked. Boone isn’t exactly a bastion of diversity, but is has had an important place in other civil rights fights. Don’t forget that the first… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 6
I should start by saying Happy birthday to Kalista. So, happy birthday Kalista! I hope it is a very happy birthday indeed! +++++++ It is time for the 9th and nearly last installment of pictures that were triggered by Elainie’s homecoming! I do believe that when you are from Iowa… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 9
It is Senior Sunday! Time for another stirring volume of senior pictures! It is once again Taylan’s turn in the rotation! Still several weeks of Senior Sundays to go!
This is it! The final collection of pictures from the 2010 Howard Family Photo Shoot! Included in this collection are some behind the scenes candid type photos, which you know are my favorite. Plus the infamous port-a-potty photos. I’ll include my theory on why Jesse wanted these pictures taken as… Read More »The 2019 Howards – Subset Seis
Time to check in with the Howard Family Photo Shoot of 2019 once again. We’re almost to the end of the photo shoot, but not quite. There will be one more, slightly smaller collection to come. This collection is very heavy with Jesse. He appears in every single image, which… Read More »The 2019 Howards – Subset Cinco
We have hit another milestone in the history of “An Artist’s Notebook”. Post #3751. I would normally make these statistical look back at the past type posts on even numbers, but I felt you guys were probably chomping at the bit to see the entries for RULE OF THIRDS. This… Read More »An Artist’s Notebook Post #3751
Time for yet another collection of images from the 2019 Howard Family Photo Shoot. With this collection I am now over half-done curating the photos from this collection. The final collection will actually be a small one. Very small depending on what I do with the port-a-potty pictures that Jesse… Read More »The 2019 Howards – Subset Cuatro
We are really getting down to the nitty gritty of the 2019 backlog. Yet, at the same time, we have a really long ways to go. With that in mind, you’ll probably see lots of the Howards in the next several days. Not as many Howards as Stenslands, but still… Read More »The 2019 Howards – Subset Tres
I need to start this post buy wishing all mothers out there a very happy Mother’s Day. Take this picture of a Mother’s Day Peony as my way of saying thanks for all that you mothers do! My Mom’s Mother Day wasn’t typical. Teresa bought some Pizza Ranch chicken and… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 4
I need to start this post by announcing that the Sharp family is making laundry detergent like crazy and donating it to area food banks like IMPACT and the Toreador Pantry. However, they need more laundry detergent jugs, so they have set up a garbage can at the end of… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 2
30 days working from home in the book. Although for the first time, I had to go into the mine to do something that couldn’t be done from home. I can’t put into words how much I hate Apple products. The fire of a thousands suns. That is the heat… Read More »ADM vs. Boone
One of the products of all this home times is that I have started up on THE CANVAS WALL PROJECT again. What started as the accent wall in my living room and then turned into the Friend Wall and then became the 9 Emotions Project wall, was turned into the… Read More »The 2019 Howards – Subset Dos
It is everybody’s favorite day…. SENIOR SUNDAY!!!! Air horn! Air horn! Air horn! It is back to Taylan’s turn in the rotation. All these pictures were taken on the same half block of downtown Boone. Starting with the Boone First United Methodist Church parking lot. Lots more Senior Sundays still… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 3
We’ve reached a point in the backlog where most of what is left is portraits. Editing portraits is the hardest for me for a variety of reasons. At least group portraits. The solo portrait isn’t such a big deal. Couples is no big deal. But groups. Woof! There is a… Read More »The 2019 Howards – Subset Uno
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
I should start with wishing everybody a Happy Easter! Happy Easter! It is definitely one of the weirdest Easters that most of us have ever experienced. I didn’t go to church on Easter Sunday since I don’t know when. Instead, I drove around and took a few pictures of church… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 2
Another post hitting up the 2019 backlog. This post is a collection of a few different photo outings, but perhaps none of them had enough pictures to have their own post. Some pictures are flowers from my Grandma’s house. Then there are some pictures from the Youth Group Pool Party.… Read More »Piebald
Another one of the Seniors that we are featuring here on Senior Sunday is Taylan Howard. We took a collection of Taylan’s Senior Pictures back in August. Taylan will be a 2020 graduate of Boone High School. Here are a few of my favorite Taylan pictures from that day: There… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 1
The pictures in the folder 2009-09-24 are from the annual Howard Family Photo Shoot in 2009. Sometimes I look at old photos and think about how much I have improved as a photographer, but I think the area I’ve grown the most as a photographer is as a family photographer.… Read More »2009-09-24
Here is the final collection of images from the 2018 Howards Photo Shoot that took place at some golf course that is like 3 blocks from my house. Sorry David, your character from the Howard Family Sitcom got written off. You will not be appearing in the 2019 Howard Family… Read More »Howards 2018 – Volume 3
Another dip into the cool refreshing waters of the 2018 backlog. This time, a second collection of pictures from the 2018 Howard Family Shoot. Here are a few more of my favorites: There is one more batch of 2018 Howard pictures still in the hopper! Stay pumped! +++++++ This is… Read More »Howards 2018 – Volume 2