Now that I’ve revealed all of the 2026 Photography Calendar I’m going to put together a super long post. I’m not joking, this is a SUPER long post. You might want to stretch out your scrolling finger before diving in to this one. Normally I might make this into 2… Read More »Let’s Talk 2026 Calendar!
Time to reveal the September image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. SEPTEMBER – 2026 The subject of the September image was Virgil the Owl. Virgil took up residence in a tree outside of Lagomarcino on the Iowa State campus this spring. So fortunately this owl was an easy owl… Read More »Des Moining II
Time to reveal the August image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. AUGUST – 2026 The subject of the August is a baby pig snoozing away at the Iowa State Fair. I have so many favorite parts of the Iowa State Fair and can’t wait until I actually get to… Read More »Philadelphia Day 2: The End
EDITOR’S NOTE: i DID SOME WEIRD FORMATTING THAT MIGHT LOOK REALLY WEIRD IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS VIA EMAIL. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GO TO THE WEBSITE TO SEE THIS POST PROPERLY. Time to reveal the June image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. JUNE – 2026 The subject… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge Year 12 in Review
Time to reveal the Mach image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. MARCH – 2026 Technical Details This picture is the ocean view looking back from the ocean view of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. If I was forced to pick my favorite part of the Ireland trip, I… Read More »State Fairin’: Trip 1
Time to reveal the February image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. FEBRUARY – 2026 Technical Details The subject for the February image is a macro image of an ant on top of a peony in my backyard. I probably took hundreds of images of ants on my peonies before… Read More »A Long Goodbye
After getting back from the City Hall area I wander around the Reading Terminal for a bit and then eventually met up with Lowell and we did something super touristy. I say that without shame, but with pride. I’ve always wanted to ride one of those double decker tour buses,… Read More »Philadelphia Day 2: Bus Tour
It is something I’d like to say I do every year, but I don’t. But I’m going to try this year. And that thing is to light a candle every Sunday during Advent Season. A virtual candle. Yes, but still a candle. So this week we are lighting the Peace… Read More »Big Pizza Pie: Decorah Field Work
Can you believe that this is the 5,750th entry in the blog known as “An Artist’s Notebook”? Every 250 posts or so I like to take a moment to reflect on where this post has been and post a lot of meaningless stats. As always on these posts, I like… Read More »Post 5,750
Back on April 19, I had a big photography day. I went to Pella to do a little tulip flowertography. And I closed out the day at Iowa State University taking pictures of Virgil, the owl living in the Lagomarcino courtyard. But in between those two photo sessions, I went… Read More »Mutual Aid Rally I
THE WINDOW FOR SUGGESTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE HAS CLOSED. So many great suggestions, it will be hard to winnow the list down to 52. Here is the list of suggestions: Angie DeWaard Lowell Davis Deb Powers Shannon Bardole-Foley Joe Duff Alexis Stensland Scott Degeneffe Andy Sharp… Read More »WPC – WEEK 530 – ANIMAL
One time I went overseasWith a woman I know too deepI live and breathe to hold her inI love to hear her speakWe went to people’s partiesAnd we haunted her old hometownWe rambled into restaurantsTracking her old friends down They all knew the magic numberThe weather, the kids, TVBut this… Read More »A Woman Oversees
Baby, you’re only gonna hurt your backLooking down like that, cut yourself a little more slackBaby, you’re gonna have a heart attackAnd they won’t thank you, they don’t make awards for that We know by now that time does not take sides We’re only humanI don’t need to see how… Read More »Human
Back in the spring the tree in front of Lagomarcino on Iowa State’s beautiful camps had an owl living in it. First chance I got, I ran over there and took some pictures of it. After all, owls are the most common bird for me to hear, but never see.… Read More »Owly
Day 5 in Ireland. We took a different route on this day than the others. Rather than driving somewhere, we decided to take a tour bus over to Galway via the Cliffs of Moher and The Burren. We got on the same tour bus with Jon and Angie and kind… Read More »Ireland Day 5
As you know, I enjoy buying photography toys. Often not useful. But sometimes just fun to play with. Which if you aren’t getting any joy out of photography, you are doing it wrong. I bought an entirely plastic toy camera for about 10 bucks early in the year, but that… Read More »Chuzhao
Is there some freewheeling watcherShooting marbles in the sky?Holding your years between their fingersWatching it burn till the fire dies Why is it heroic to untether?How is alone some holy grail?And if we really come and go unknownCouldn’t I find myself in jail? Oh, keeper how I love youI love… Read More »Returning to Myself
Last time we left off we were walking to the stadium for the game. Our good friends from the Luas told us to just follow the canal and we would get there. We should have followed their advice. We followed the canal most of the way, but then we started… Read More »Ireland Day 4: Part 2
… for falling in love. But Thursdays are for flowers. This is another flowertography session that took place in my yard while I was trying to get the ants on peony picture that I wanted. Have a look! Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve peonies. Maybe some ants, but definitely… Read More »You Can’t Blame Gravity…
Last Friday we started on the River Walk with Joe and Lowell. This week we will finish off the river walk and go through the restaurant where we got a late lunch. Here are the pictures: Still quite a few images left from my last day in Austin left to… Read More »Austin Day 5: More River Walk
Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography session took place in my yard. Many of these pictures were my pursuit of an ant picture on a peony. So I hope you like pictures of peonies and ants. What am I saying? Everybody loves macro pictures of ants! Have a looksie: Next… Read More »The Best Thing That’s Ever Been Mine