A couple weeks back I took the camera to Iowa State’s season opener. Derrick did an excellent job holding the secondary lens.
Here are a few pictures from the game:
Not sure how many games the rest of the season I’ll take the camera to, but wanted to do it at least once.
On an unrelated note, congratulations to Kim, who became the latest person to subscribe to Photography 139’s An Artist Notebook via an email subscription. Welcome aboard Kim!
I might have said last week that this random Wednesday collection was going to feature Maddux. Next week’s collection will feature Maddux.
A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of helping chaperone the youth group from my church on a mission trip to Minneapolis.
As you have undoubtedly heard, my point and shoot went kaput on this trip, so I didn’t get as many photos as I wanted. However, with the pictures I had taken and pictures contributed by Sarah and Maddie I was able to put together this video of the trip to show during the church service on Sunday.
Of course, if you subscribe to this blog via email or RSS feed, you will have to go to the website to watch it.
One note on the video. I do think it ended up being the perfect song for the video and I really struggled with the song until I ultimately settled on this acoustic version of Live Like That by The Street Prophets.
I think this song and this version of the song worked perfectly for the video. I played with the original radio release, but I decided it was too hard of a song for our congregation. But I found an acoustic version of it on YouTube performed by The Street Prophets for KLove radio.
While searching for the perfect song I listened a lot of the Matt Maher station on Pandora while walking Naima.
Originally, I was going to go with Matt Maher’s Hold Us Together.
Then I changed to Brandon Heath’s Give Me Your Eyes.
Then I changed to Jason Gray’s Remind Me Who I Am.
Then I changed back to Matt Maher’s Hold Us Together.
But once I found the acoustic version of Live Like That, the choice was obvious, even though I love all those other songs.
Even though, you’ll see these pictures in the video, here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip:
Bible Study on a Hill
What 1 Ton of Rice Looks Like Before We Got There
What 1 Ton of Rice Looks Like When We Are Done with It!
Maddie Boxing Rice
Kiley and Sarah getting their hair done at Mary’s Place
Emily During Bible Study
Paige, Kiley, Grace and Erica Ready at Feed My Starving Children
Finishing Up at Feed My Starving Children
Blessing the Food Packs at Feed My Starving Children
Sarah, Grace, and Alan Making Boxes at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Jacob and Marshall Boxing Meat at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Erica, Gabe, and CJ – the end of the frozen meat line at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Bagging Noodles at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Erica, Maddie, Amber, and Kiley Sorting Clothes at ARC
Brenton, CJ, and Jacob Sorting Clothes at ARC
Gabe and Jake Organizing Clothes at ARC
Marshall, Jake, Alec, and Alan Working the Back of ARC
Sarah Styling in ARC
Minnehaha Falls
Breakfast!
Andrew During Bible Study
Alec and Grace Draining the 1 Ton Bag of Rice
Emily and Amber Weighing Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Sarah Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Paige Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Steph and Ryan Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Erica, Amber, Sarah, Emily, Maddie, and Grace at the Global Market
Ammie and Paige Playing Sorry at Mary’s Place
Jake and Kids Showing Off their Creation at Mary’s Place
Brenton, Sarah, Grace, Emily, Amber, Erica, Jacob, Paige, Steph, Jake, Ammie, Allan, Ryan, Yours Truly, Gabe, Jake, Alec, Maddie, Kiley, Sarah, Andrew, CJ, and Marshall at the Sculptue Garden
It was an amazing trip and I hope I asked back for next year’s mission trip.
The majority of these pictures come from a concert my friend Mike’s band (Lesser Known Saint) had at the M Shop.
I remember telling Mike after the show how much I loved watching him “dance” on stage. He got mad and told me he wasn’t “dancing”, he was “thrashing”.
Lesser Known Saint was still patrolling the Twin Cities area until recently. I understand that they have broken up now and are pursuing separate projects.
Back in early July, Jill came home to play piccolo and flute (on America the Beautiful) for the Boone Municipal Band during the Iowa Municipal Band Festival.
Here are a few pictures from the event, but really they are just more pictures of Evie.
As of the writing of this journal entry, I have no clue what I will be posting next Wednesday.
Even though I only recently started the tradition of posting movie reviews on Wednesdays, I’m already walking away from that tradition. I want to keep this website about photography as much as possible, so I’m going to start posting my movie reviews on my collective blog:
Robot Monster Bros.
If you were to follow that link, you would not find any movie reviews. You will find an explanation of why I do my movie reviews the way I do. You will also find a posting the 10 Things I Learned in NYC. In the near future, I should have a review of Cedar Rapids up.
Wednesdays now will be more of a random photography day. This way I get more photography on the photography website and more writing on the writing website.
Here are some random pictures from my trip to New York City:
The Carnegie Deli, our first stop after the hotel.
The Melo – That is what I am talking about!
Maybe the best cheesecake of my life.
Central Park
Central Park
Central Park Horse
Manhattan Skyline from Central Park
Broadway
David Letterman does not amuse me, but this was still kind of cool.
“Don’t want to be an American Idiot. Don’t want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind (fudge) America….”
Want to know what 72 dollars worth of alcohol looks like in NYC? Sarah and Tim are showing it off.
Steph and I after American Idiot
Jesse and I after American Idiot
Amy’s Bread’s Red Velvet Cake. Tim said this would be the best red velvet cake of my life. Shhh…. My Mom’s is better!
Sarah and I outside of Amy’s Bread
More random New York City images will be coming your way next Wednesday and don’t forget to check out the other website for my list of 10 things I learned in NYC.