Another Pufferbilly Days event that I photographed was the Pufferbilly Days Dog Show. Technically, it is a pet show, but the only pets that show up are dogs. I mean, it is pretty obvious why nobody enters a cat, but I would think that somebody would enter a guinea pig… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Dog Show
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -Saadi This is a quote attributed to the Persian poet Saadi Shirazi. He was a Persian poet that lived in the 13th century. I have tried to find the original context of this quote, but have failed miserably.… Read More »Sorrow and Gladness 2022 – Vol. 3
Time to share the second collection of images I took at the State Center Rose Garden back on June 18. It is one of my favorite flower gardens in Iowa. I definitely try to hit it every year. It was part of a full day of photography. I started at… Read More »Sorrow and Gladness 2022 – Vol. 2
A quick heads up. If you were thinking of going to or entering an animal into the Pufferbilly Days Dog and Exotic Animal Show, because of the extreme heat of today it was postponed. It is now tomorrow at noon at the park on 9th and Story. +++++++ I have… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – July 2022
A reminder that this Friday is the deadline for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Entries are to be submitted to the Chamber office by 5 PM. I hope there are plenty of submissions this year! Or at the least, more than there were last year. +++++++ Was WILD a WILDly… Read More »WPC – WEEK 358 – WILD
On Saturday Baby Got Rack competed in the Boone County Fair Barbecue Competition. The Iowa Farm Bureau Cook-out is the technical name I believe. The bad news is that we were definitely rusty. In fact, it might have been the worst performance in Baby Got Rack’s storied career. The good… Read More »Baby Got Rack – Boone County Fair Prep
WORK sure can be a lot of WORK. But how many people put in the WORK of getting a WORK photo? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, July 11, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):… Read More »WPC – WEEK 357 – WORK
Trending back to Day 5 of my Computer Mine trip to Miami Beach. This was the only day I got to do much photography. We actually left the convention center at a decent time. We had an appetizer party hosted by the sales team that I attended, but then I… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 5 – A7II – Uno
It has been 5,795 days since August 9, 2006. 5,795 days since I first took keyboard in hand and started the blog portion of the Photography 139 website. The portion I pompously named “An Artist’s Notebook”. The part I started with the words: So here is the first journal entry.… Read More »Four Thousand Five Hundred
I thought this Sunday I would get back to Formal Portrait Sundays, but today didn’t unfold how I planned at all. Not even a little bit. Instead, I’m going to share some pictures I took with the real camera on the first day of my work trip to Miami Beach.… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 1 – A7II
On Tuesday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. It was month of random prompts and I think for the most part, there is some good work mixed in with mediocre work. The kind of thing you get with a Photo A Day Challenge.… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – May 2022
I promised you more information about the Great Pyramids of Iowa. Here is information from a Des Moines Register article titled: “Pyramids? Haunted angels? These are 6 of Iowa’s oddest graveyards to visit before you die.: Three small Egyptian-style pyramids at the back of Hickory Grove Cemetery near Avery are… Read More »Monroe and Mahaska County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3
The grand majority of the pictures in the folders 2011-06-13, 2011-06-14, and 2011-06-17 are from a trip to Kalona to eat an authentic Amish meal with Funk, Sara, and Cousin Amy. This was before Funk became a total badass and started spending her free time climbing mountains in Peru. There… Read More »2011-06-13, 2011-06-14, and 2011-06-17
The pictures in the folder 2011-06-08 are from a time I went with my Mom over to my Grandma’s house to photograph some of her flowers. She always had beautiful flowers. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s… Read More »2011-06-08
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. I usually like to put out a devotional on Ash Wednesday, but time got a way from me as I continue to play catch-up with nearly every aspect of my life. I thought I would share the devotional from the Methodist Bishop in Iowa, Laurie Haller.… Read More »Standing in My Way
The pictures in the folders 2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14 are mostly from a Mother’s Day celebration we held at my house. But there are also pictures there from the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT (now known as THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE) and Logan running track. By adding these pictures to the… Read More »2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on August 8, 2022. Many of these pictures were taken in a special creative mode, if you think they look “different”. There are only a couple of collections of flower pictures from my Mom’s… Read More »My Eyes Can only See as Far as You
Lots of nature type pictures in the folder 2011-04-30. Many of the pictures are from when Micky and I went turkey hunting. Some are of frogs. Some are of turkeys. Some are of the deadliest game… peacocks. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to… Read More »2011-04-30
This is the final collection of flower pictures I took at the Iowa State Fair in 2021. There are also a few pictures of a monarch butterfly that I also captured, photographically. I’m already looking forward to the 2022 Iowa State Fair. Hope to get there a couple times again.… Read More »Throw It All Away
The pictures in the folders 2011-04-10, 2011-04-17, and 2011-04-23 are mostly of tulips from a trip I took to Pella back in 2011. But there are also a couple pictures there from Year 2 of the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. I’m pretty sure that over 10 years later those same… Read More »2011-04-10, 2011-04-17, and 2011-04-23
Here is the final collection of auxiliary images I took on a couple of road trips to southwest Iowa to harvest town signs. Most of these are in Page County, but a few are in Ringgold County. Clarinda Shambaugh While the Facebook algorithm is destroying humanity, this robot is out… Read More »Southwest Iowa Auxiliary Images Vol. 6