Badlands Vol. 3
More pictures of my brief trip through the Badlands with my Mom: More pictures from the Badlands in the coming days!
And I Wonder How the World Gon’ Take This; They Might Hate It, But You Don’t Know Anything About Me!
The world wasn’t ready for these MUSIC photos on Monday. Not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: The majority of the pictures were taken at Rieman Music in Ames. If you have any music needs, this is definitely the place… Read More »And I Wonder How the World Gon’ Take This; They Might Hate It, But You Don’t Know Anything About Me!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 139 – MUSIC
There was a healthy amount of MUSIC submissions for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. That is, MUSIC to my eyes. But you didn’t com here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Brooke Milligan Andy Sharp Kim Barker Christopher D. Bennett… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 139 – MUSIC
Badlands Vol. 2
Time to hit the backlog again. More pictures from my trip through the Badlands with my Mom: More from this trip coming your way at some point in the near future!
05-03-08
The images in this blog are from the folder 05-03-08: By adding these images to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following historical An Artist’s Notebook entry to its original glory: CARDINAL GYMNASTICS ACADEMY The pictures of Alexis doing gymnastics was at her gymnastics recital,… Read More »05-03-08
Mr. 3000
So here is the first journal entry. I felt like having as pretentious sounding name as possible for my journal. I have a few goals about this journal. My main goal is just to actually write in it. My second goal is to be as truthful as possible towards my… Read More »Mr. 3000
Badlands Vol. 1
Time to hit up the backlog again. This time, to my quick trip through Badlands National Park with my Mom: More pictures from Badlands are in the hopper. Same Photography 139 Channel. Possibly a different Photography 139 Time.
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 138 – CITY
Not a ton of submissions for CITY and this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I worry that many of my followers are country bumpkins that fell off the turnip truck before they could make it to a big city like say… Boone, Iowa. Despite the lack of submissions, they do range… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 138 – CITY
Tomorrow Belongs to the People Who Prepare for it Today
Every day is a good day to start a post with a quote from Malcolm X. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. I start with this quote because yesterday, Logan graduated from the finest university in all the… Read More »Tomorrow Belongs to the People Who Prepare for it Today
04-30-08
The following images (and this collection is all over the place) came from the folder 04-30-08: Karen One of the bitter parts of this collection is that Karen has passed away since this picture was taken. Many of these pictures were taken during Olivia’s Stitching Time. A sewing circle that… Read More »04-30-08
Birthday!!!
Several weeks back I headed up to Minnesota to celebrate Nora’s 2nd birthday. Took a few photos. Thought I’d share a few photos: Nora is so impressed with my gift! She is so cute! I can hardly wait until Christmas when I can giver her more books that don’t excite… Read More »Birthday!!!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 137 – ARCHITECTURE
A good week of submissions for ARCHITECTURE. I have no doubt that my outhouse picture inspired many a person to submit this week. This week, the Photography 139 Empire extended as far east as Chicago. As far north as Roland, Iowa. As far west as the Des Moines Airport. As… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 137 – ARCHITECTURE
Graceland
Time to hit up the back log. These pictures are from Russell, Jesse, and I’s trip to Memphis to watch Iowa State stomp the Memphis Tigers in the Liberty Bowl. I am a fan of Elvis. I get that from my Mom. From her I grew up listening to Elvis… Read More »Graceland
04-22-08, 04-25-08, 04-26-08
The following images are from the folders 04-22-08, 04-25-08, and 04-26-08: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery I was able to restore these historic An Artist’s Notebook entries to their original glory: LITTLE WHITE LYE PRODUCT ENDORSEMENT PART 3 AMES JAYCEES SANDBOX FILL The soap pictures were… Read More »04-22-08, 04-25-08, 04-26-08
No! Not Bird Defecation AND Excretion!
Since the weather outside has been turning less frightful, I’ve been trying to take Naima on a walk or at least an adventure about every day. At last week’s Friday Night Supper Club, I nearly nodded off after consume massive amounts of Casey’s Taco and Hot Sausage pizza, while watching… Read More »No! Not Bird Defecation AND Excretion!
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – ARCHITECTURE
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is ARCHITECTURE: ARCHITECTURE An ARCHITECTURE photo is a photo of a building or a part of a building. That is basically all there is to it. As many of you may know (and by many I mean very few) I… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – ARCHITECTURE
Miller Estate Auction
This is one of probably 2 entries for An Artist’s Notebook about my Saturday morning last. This is about the later part of my morning, but you must know a little bit about the early morning to understand how this strange turn of events happened. The earliest part of my… Read More »Miller Estate Auction
The Town Sign Project: Vol 5
On Friday and Saturday of last week I did a little bit of Town Sign harvesting. The full story will follow the new signs, but I’ll just say that I on both trips I made some (by my standards) pretty cool discoveries. Elkhart, Iowa Huxley, Iowa Cooper, Iowa Jamaica, Iowa… Read More »The Town Sign Project: Vol 5
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 136 – GOVERNMENT
After a couple big weeks of participation, this week took a nosedive. Big time. Apparently not many people we open to the wide world of GOVERNMENT photography. That is okay, maybe better luck this week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 136 – GOVERNMENT
Cluck Cluck Noodles
Last Sunday the Methodist Men had our annual Chicken Noodles Brunch. I took a few photos of the event: You may recall that the weather last Sunday was less than idyllic. Loads of snow dropped on the metropolitan Boone area and the temperatures were cold as well. The turnout for… Read More »Cluck Cluck Noodles
04-19-08
The following images are from the folder 04-19-08: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following classic An Artist’s Notebook entries to their original glory: LITTLE WHITE LYE BONUS SPRING GAME If you want to check out more pictures from Iowa… Read More »04-19-08