Category Archives: State Fair

Flowers, State Fair, Steph

State Fair Flower

Another flower from the Iowa State Fair Discovery Garden. This time from my trip with the old Campus crew.


Discovery Garden Flower

After taking this picture, I sat down at a picnic table with Steph and Kellie eating some kind of fried potato concoction, when a lady from New Jersey sat down with us.

She started out friendly enough. She told us about her daughter who lived with her. How they were trying to make it to all 48 states by the end of the year. But then the signs of being from New Jersey started to come out.

First, innocently enough. She started telling us about how she used to be a ballerina, but some choreographer from ballet studio x was ruining that ballet because his choreographry was so terrible.

Then she moved on to telling us about how some county fair in New Jersey was better than the Iowa State Fair.

Then she started talking about how New York has the best pizza in the world.

Let’s stop there, because let’s be honest, New York Style pizza is the worst style of pizza in the world. There is a reason it is a buck a slice. That floppy mess is best used to feed rats on the subway.


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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/6.3
EXPOSURE: 1/320
DATE: 08-20-2016 – 15:54
LATITUDE: 41.59489°
LONGITUDE: -93.55144°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Steph
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Money” by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Art, Basketball, Black & White, Iowa State, Jeff Daniel, Photoshop, State Fair, Steph, Still Life, Street Photography, Yin

It’s Dollars to Doughnuts!

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Here are some general pictures from my recent trips to the Iowa State Fair with Baby Got Rack, Stephanie, Kelly, Yin, Jeff, and the Beavers!

I was going to tell this story about the New Jersey woman I met that was just the worst. Like all people from New Jersey. But at this time I think it is just enough to point out that people from New Jersey are the worst.

If I get motivated, I might leave the story in the COMMENTS section of this here post later.

So without further adieu…


It was a successful Iowa State Fair. Next year, I might unretire and enter the Photo Contest again. Of course, I said that about Pufferbilly Days as well and decided that it just wasn’t for me this year.

Baby Got Rack, Contests, Scottie D., State Fair

State Champs!

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As some may have heard from various social media outlets or via press release, Baby Got Rack competed at the Iowa State Fair barbecue contest in the Combination category last Tuesday and brought home the championship.

Word on the street is that we were very close to winning the Grand Championship, but fell just short because we didn’t have our own barbecue sauce. An oversight that has been remedied. 4X over.

Here are a few photos from the day.





We were set up and ready to rock by 5 AM.


This corn dog stand can take a long walk off a short pier.


Marcus holding down the smoker.


Chicken and pork loin on!


IPTV setup a timelapse camera in our booth, but didn’t use the footage in their show.


Meat check.


Meat resting.


This guy’s shirt. Came to the right place.


60 total barbecue combatants.


Never hurts to work the Staties.


Getting the pizza ready.


The Marriage Saver


Scott and the judges.


Cynthia Fodor spent quite a bit of time hanging around our booth.


Media Obligations


More Media Obligations


Even More Media Obligations. This interview was on IPTV.

The Grand Champion Judges


Scott receiving his award. If we would’ve won Grand Champion, he would’ve gotten that crown.

I also took some pictures of the preparations, but we don’t want any of the trade secrets going public.

If you’re sad you missed Baby Got Rack’s most recent competition, we will be competing again during the Pufferbilly Days barbecue contest. We will be looking to defend our People’s Choice Award. We have a few tricks up our sleeve for this one. An ace in the hole from a marketing standpoint. Almost as good as our trademark fedoras.

Some come up and try our free samples on Sunday, September 11. Downtown Boone. Follow the smell of smoky and goodness. Vote for Baby Got Rack! The one vote you can cast this fall that you won’t regret later.

Animals, Birthdays, Flowers, Macro, Scottie D., State Fair, Teresa

Discoverbee

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Yesterday, Baby Got Rack competed at the State Fair barbecue contest. After we got the pork and the chicken on the smoker, we had a couple of hours to kill. We smoke the chicken and pork for close to two hours and then we allow the meat to rest another hour.

During this time, we mostly conversate, dance, and wait anxiously for root beer stands to open. While Scottie D. and Marcus held down the fedora fort, I used a small amount of this time to pay my respects to the spot on the fairgrounds that used to hold Jennie’s Grinders. Then I went to visit probably my favorite part of the fairgrounds, Discovery Gardens.

While I was there, I took this picture:


As always, when I take a bee picture. I ask you all to take a moment to remember the horrible bee attack that decimated Houston in the 1970s. Never forget!

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO:640
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE:1/160
DATE: 08-16-2016
LATITUDE: 41.59489°
LONGITUDE: -93.55139°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Team Baby Got Rack
EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Retreat” by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Also, I’d be a failure if I didn’t recognize the anniversary of the birth of long time Photography 139 supporter and long time sister Teresa Kahler!



Happy Birthday Teresa!

Flowers, Macro, State Fair

Flower Contest

Here is another flower photo, but it isn’t from the flower garden, it is from the flower contest.


Flower from State Fair Flower Contest

This almost concludes the State Fair pictures.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 1600
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2016 – 15:34
LATITUDE: 41.59535°
LONGITUDE: -93.55075°
ALTITUDE: 253 meters

Flowers, State Fair

rausgeschmissen werden

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Here it is… the picture that got me kicked out of the Iowa State Flower Garden…




But don’t worry, I probably still got at least a couple of pictures from the state fair trip to come.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 1000
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE TAKEN: 08/22/2015 – 18:36
LATITUDE: 41.59488°
LONGITUDE: -93.55154°
ALTITUDE: 242.4 meters above sea level

Flowers, Macro, State Fair

Coney

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Time to look at another flower picture from the Iowa State Fair…


Coneflower at the Iowa State Fair

I wish I had this color of coneflower in my personal garden. That is something I may have to try to remedy in 2016.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
LENS: 60mm f2 Macro
ISO: 1600
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/3.5
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/15 – 18:36
LATITUDE: 41.5947°
LONGITUDE: -93.55157°
ALTITUDE: 240.7 meters above sea level

Flowers, State Fair

Daisy Bush

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Oh… why not take a look at another flower from the Iowa State Fair?




Don’t worry. I’ll be out of these by next year’s State Fair. I’m almost to the picture that got me kicked out of the flower garden.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
LENS: 60mm F2 MACRO
ISO: 1000
FOCAL LENGTH 60mm (90mm – 35mm equivalency)
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 -18:31
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.1″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 4.5″
ALTITUDE: 242.22 meters

Black & White, Flowers, State Fair

Osteospermum

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It has probably been too long since I posted a picture from the Iowa State Fair flower garden. Better remedy that:


Iowa State Fair Daisy Bush

Daisies have always been one of my favorites to photograph.

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CAMERA: Sony SLT-A65V
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm (35mm equivalency – 90mm)
ISO: 1000
APERTURE: f/4
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 08/22/2015 18:31
LATITUDE: 41° 35′ 41.2″
LONGITUDE: 93° 33′ 4.5″
ALTITUDE: 242.25 meters