A few months back, I took a dead zinnia down to my basement, lit it and then lit it up. I believe Jesse and Anders were standing by as potential firefighters. Even though, they didn’t understand why I was starting even the smallest fire, inside my house. Here are the… Read More »Light it Up!
Here it is! The first week of Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I asked people to submit a picture that showed what they think, when they think of FAMILY. For the 67th week in a row, we had double digit submissions! But you didn’t come here to listen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 278 – FAMILY
I need to start this post off by wishing Lowell a happy birthday. Happy birthday Lowell! I hope it was as happy as you wanted it to be! +++++++ Here is another collection of pictures from when I travelled to Manhattan to take pictures of the Millers. These are mostly… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 3
Back during the week of Labor Day, I took a week of vacation. I believe it was the only full week of vacation I took in 2020. One of the things I did while on vacation was take a road trip out to the Loess Hills. My ultimate destination was… Read More »Loess Hills
This is the final week of the Hall of Fame THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE themes. TRANSPORTATION is a good way to end it, I suppose. 66! That is the number of weeks in a row we have hit double digit submissions! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 277 – TRANSPORTATION
Figured today would be another good day to share more pictures from when I travelled to Manhattan, Kansas to take pictures of the Millers. This was meant to be more of a formal portrait, but turned out to be candid portraits, which is perfectly okay, by my standards. Got plenty… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 2
All the pictures in the folder 2010-06-05 are pictures of Derrick and Jen while Jen was pregnant with Evie. This was a part of a series of images we took to document Jen’s pregnancy as part of a PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. Here are some of those images: By adding these… Read More »2010-06-05
I’m not the type of person that makes New Year’s Resolutions. So I don’t have any for you. Originally I was going to include a bunch of year in review stuff here. However, we are closing in on Post #4000 pretty soon, so I don’t see a need to do… Read More »Dubuque Monument
Here we are, the last day of 2020. That means it is time for me to share the December image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar. Because of the pandemic, I got to deliver very few calendars in person this year. I think the only reactions that I got to… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – SOME CHURCHES
The September image for the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar is a picture of an orange gazania that I sprayed down with a water bottle. This gazania was grown in the Photography 139 Flower Garden. It is one of the bucket flower pots that lives in the front yard next to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 276 – ROAD TRIP
The picture for the August in the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken after the derecho devastate a good chunk of Iowa. It was taken of the elevator in Luther with a fisheye lens. It was taken on August 11, 2020. Here are some details on the photo: DETAILS CAMERA:… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 1
I need to start by wishing everybody a Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Many of us (me included) aren’t having our typical Christmas, or even the Christmas that they remotely wanted. Remember it is okay to feel a mixture of feelings today, because this isn’t the Christmas you wanted. Maybe it… Read More »Merry Christmas – 2020
The March image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken at Badger Creek Recreation Area. It was taken in the sunflower field there. It was taken on July 25, 2020. It was taken with a Lensbaby lens. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS:… Read More »Rodan139: Community Thanksgiving
The February image for the Photography 139 2021 Calendar is a macro photo of my favorite flower, the moonflower. It is taken with a flash ring. It was taken on July 28, 2020. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS: FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro FOCAL… Read More »WPC – WEEK 275 – COLORFUL
The January image of the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken in lower Ledges. It was taken on January 4, 2020. It was taken shortly after a recent snow fall. One sad part about the printed version of this picture in the calendar is that the picnic table gets cut… Read More »Kanoa at 1!
As I’ve started to distribute the Photography 139 2021 Calendars, it is time to start revealing the pictures that made the cut: Front Cover The front cover image is an HDR image of Naima wading into the pond at Dickcissel Park while the sun goes down in the west. It… Read More »2010-05-30
On Thanksgiving, my church (Boone First United Methodist) served nearly 800 free meals to the community. I could write about it, but why bother, when Kio has already done such a great job at that: Seven hundred seventy one meals were served at First United Methodist Church’s 23rd annual free… Read More »Community Thanksgiving – 2020
63! 63! 63 straight weeks of double digit submissions! I was a little worried about FACELESS PORTRAIT, but I had double digit submissions before I even rolled of the couch this morning. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 274 – FACELESS PORTRAIT
Today I want to share a few photos I took of Amanda and Logan a couple weeks before Dahlia was born. These were taken out at Don Williams and They were definitely looking for some silhouette pictures. You’ll be able to tell that, I’m sure… There is one more collection… Read More »Amanda and Logan – Pre-Dahlia No. 1
Here is another collection of pictures of me playing with the concept of freezing a flower in ice and then taking a picture of it. The flower is a zinnia. I believe that this is the time I switched to making ice with distilled water. I should have kept better… Read More »Marnie
I need to start today by wishing Jesse a happy birthday. Happy birthday Jesse! I could post a thousand pictures of Jesse from thousands of adventures we shared. But you only get 5 and have to imagine the rest. Jesse, I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Banks