The February image from the 2022 Photography 139 Calendar is a macro image of an allium from my Mom’s yard just starting to bloom. Tomorrow I will share the March image. +++++++ A few weeks back Vest and I loaded up in the car and toured around Decatur County harvesting… Read More »Town Sign Project: Decatur County
ODD CAMERA ANGLE has proven to be an oddly successful theme! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Submitted by Andy Sharp – Photo by Don Lester Angie DeWaard Bill Wentworth Christopher D. Bennett… Read More »WPC – WEEK 326 – ODD CAMERA ANGLE
The pictures in this collection are in a folder called New York City. These pictures are from a trip I took with Jesse to visit my cousin Sarah and her beau Tim. They live in Manhattan. We made this trip in 2011 and I thought that I’d probably go out… Read More »NYC – One
RELIGION turned out to be a fairly popular theme. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Bill Wentworth Michelle Haupt Tamara Peterson Christopher D. Bennett Teresa Kahler Kio Dettman Shannon Bardole-Foley Micky Augustin Andy Sharp Cathie… Read More »WPC – WEEK 322 – RELIGION
On Sunday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. One thing that always happens when I look back at a month’s worth of pictures I’m always surprised at some of the things that all happened in the same month. That? That happened this month? I thought that was… Read More »Selfie Project – October
REMINDER!!! This week and next week are you chance to help mold the next 52 weeks for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. To do that leave suggestions for themes in the COMMENTS section of this here journal entry. There were some good suggestions last week and one truly terrible one. Terrible… Read More »WPC – WEEK 319 – GREEN
In the next few weeks I will be compiling a list of the next 52 themes. If you have ideas for me to consider, place it in the COMMMENTS section of this here journal entry. I might not use them, but I will definitely give them the consideration that they… Read More »WPC – WEEK 318 – PASSION
Can you believe that this is the 4,250th post in this crazy little thing called “An Artist’s Notebook’. 4,250 posts! It has been 5,549 days since I took keyboard in hand on August 9, 2006 and typed these words: So here is the first journal entry. The name of that… Read More »Journal Entry #4,250
WORK turned out to be a pretty popular theme. I knew many of you out there were hard WORKers! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Jesse Howard Micky Augustin Andy Sharp Bill Wentworth Carla Stensland… Read More »WPC – WEEK 314 – WORK
So far JUNK hasn’t been an extremely popular theme, which I think is a bunch of JUNK. But I love JUNK. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Shannon Bardole-Foley Tamara Peterson Bill Wentworth Christopher D.… Read More »WPC – WEEK 313 – JUNK
I’m pretty sure that this is the most popular theme in the history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. 30 submissions! Wow! I’m glad to see so many people have people they consider FRIENDS or could at least find a group of somebody else’s FRIENDS to photograph or found something that… Read More »WPC – WEEK 310 – FRIENDS
It seems like a good time to review my first time as the Chair of the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. I don’t know I can say it was an extreme success, but enough of a success to build on. Participation was way down this year, but I think that was… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest – 2021
The theme TOY really spoke to a ton of people this week. There were a bunch of submissions and I didn’t even send out any reminder texts this morning because I was dealing with wrapping up the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. My first one as a chair was some mixed… Read More »WPC – WEEK 308 – TOY
At least a few people were able to figure out what PATHS they are walking for the theme of PATHS. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions. Tamara Peterson Christopher D. Bennett Teresa Kahler Teresa Kahler… Read More »WPC – WEEK 307 – PATHS
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
While we have been working on sorting things at my Mom’s house, we recently have come through a whole pile of genealogy stuff. While sorting through it, I thought I would share a bit of family history from my Dad’s side of the family. It is a story I’ve known,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 305 – MUSIC
Lots of people decided to make HISTORY by taking a HISTORY image this week. I understand that it can be a bit difficult for people that aren’t like me. You see, it is easy for me cause I’m making HISTORY every day. But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 304 – HISTORY
It appears that WHITE was not a super popular theme. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Shannon Bardole-Foley Christopher D. Bennett Micky Augustin Angie DeWaard Kim Barker Angie DeWaard Kio Dettman Kio Dettman Cathie Raley… Read More »WPC – WEEK 301 – WHITE
There was a decent amount of submissions for TRAVEL. It looks like several people left their house this weekend and had TRAVEL adventures. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Elizabeth Nordeen Jodie Cue… Read More »WPC – WEEK 294 – TRAVEL
There was a decent amount of submissions for HANDS. Including, what I believe to be the first ever submission by Amy Peterson. Very excited to have Amy as a future contributor and I expect big things from here in the future. But you didn’t come here to listen to me… Read More »WPC – WEEK 293 – HANDS
75! 75 straight weeks of double digit submissions! That is 3/4 of the way to triple digits on the double digits! But it won’t be able to get to the triple-double. This week’s theme couldn’t be easier, but the week after that is the theme that killed the last double… Read More »WPC – WEEK 286 – PLAY