I was able to make it to College Game Day on Saturday morning. I left my car at Jen and Derrick’s and Derrick dropped me off at The Jack on his way to work. The crowd was already a pretty good size by 7:45. I can say that College GameDay… Read More »College Ames Day – Part I
Hey! Guess what! It is fundraiser season! The first fundraiser for the 2020 Mission Trip is tomorrow night at Pizza Ranch! You’ll get a chance to support some of these amazing kids: You’ll notice something is a little different about the promo card this year. This is no longer the… Read More »Pizza Ranch Mission Trip Fundraiser!
I really wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make it to College Ames Day, so the Friday night before I went over to at least check out the set. At the time I was walking around the set, ESPN had yet to announce who was going to… Read More »College Ames Day Eve
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY proved to be an extremely unpopular theme, like I predicted. Not only did hardly anybody try this theme, only one person took on my added challenge of taking the picture in black & white as a tribute to the late great Robert Frank. Thanks Jen! The streak of… Read More »WPC – WEEK 210 – STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
The pictures from the folder 2009-06-12 are from the Burnin’ Sensations Ames on the Half Shell concert in 2009. It rained that day, so the concert got moved to DJ’s Taphouse. I believe that Burnin’ Sensations have played Ames on the Half Shell every single year since Ames on the… Read More »2009-06-12
Elainie and Sabas are home from San Diego which created absolutely the perfect opportunity to knock out Page 28 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Page 28 – Recreate a famous photograph without looking it up Obviously this is based on Alfred Eisenstaedt picture of a sailor kissing a girl on… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 28
It was a sad day in the Bennett Family. Carla and Jason had to say goodbye to their dog Shimmer. Shimmer lived with me for about 6 months when Carla and Jason were building there current house, so I had a tight bond with Shimmer. Today I had earmarked for… Read More »Shimmer
On the Sunday of Pufferbilly Days I was once again tapped to do photography for the Pufferbilly Days Pet Show by Kio. There was a lot of Bennett to the Pet Show as Logan and Mom were both judges. Teresa also showed Mocha. I’d like to say that the show… Read More »Pufferbilly Westminster
Hitting up the 2018 backlog again. This is a miscellaneous set of pictures that I took on the same day as the Pet Memorial Day in 2018. Some of these I think were taken for a theme reveal for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and I think others were taken for… Read More »See Myself Looking Back
Welcome to Year 7 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!!! THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE was born under the name THE RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. It was actually originally the idea of Mike Vest. Back in the day we used to collaborate on the project with both our websites. Then, after a… Read More »WPC – WEEK 209 – ARCHITECTURE
The pictures from the folder 2009-06-06 are from the first Ames on the Half Shell concert of the 2009 season. The band that played was Vivace. I’m not sure if they are still around, but they were just a real solid classic rock cover band. Classic rock cover band pretty… Read More »2009-06-06
The Union Street Theater Movie Club had our September Movie Night last Saturday. The B Movie was ACTION JACKSON. The Feature was BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA. Jay made us ribs. It was a good night. It was also a good night to knock off Page 121 of… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 121
Now seems like a good time to check-in with my favorite pictures from my August SELFIE PROJECT pictures. It would seem that I had a successful month of August. I met Vice-President Joe Biden. I competed in a barbecue contest at the Iowa State Fair. I also competed in a… Read More »Selfie Project – August
SKY wasn’t a super popular theme, but it was still popular enough to hit double digits and keep the streak alive! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Elizabeth Nordeen Monica Henning Kim Barker… Read More »WPC – WEEK 208 – SKY
Pufferbilly Days is upon us! That means that by the time this entry sees the light of the day the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest should be up for delay. In addition to the 6 photos that all of you helped select, Carla has entered photos. Logan has entered photos. Vest… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 18
On Saturday, the Iowa State Cyclones opened their season by thrashing an upstart team from Cedar Falls. The referees tried valiantly to keep the Purple Hawks in the game by awarding them 2 touchdowns they didn’t earn. The first was an incomplete pass that UNI “recovered” and returned for a… Read More »Iowa State 29 Northern Iowa 26
The holiday weekend did take the predictable hit on participation rates, but considering it was a holiday, I can’t complain about participation rates too much. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! Jen Ensley-Gorshe Kim Barker… Read More »WPC – WEEK 207 – TOY
There are a wide variety of pictures in the folder 2009-05-29. They range from pictures of socks that Shannon made to Ernie trimming trees to baby worst birds to invites to my housewarming party to pictures Sara took at my housewarming party. The guy in the picture with me and… Read More »2009-05-29
A couple Tuesdays back, Baby Got Rack took its award winning Meat Loaf Cupcakes to the Iowa State Fair to compete against the best the Cyclone State has to offer. I believe there were 8 other combatants in the category of Combo/Specialty and 44 combatants altogether. Here is a collection… Read More »Baby Take State Fair
Hitting up the backlog with another collection of pictures from Pufferbilly Days last year. These pictures are from when Bethany, Nora, and I visited the petting zoo. I believe that to be all of my 2018 Pufferbilly Days pictures backlog.
RED was another extremely popular theme. In fact, I daresay that these last few weeks have been the most successful weeks in the history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:… Read More »WPC – WEEK 206 – RED