I’m going to publish the pictures from 2 old timey folder today because they are both pretty small. The pictures in the folder 10-28-08 are from a trip I took to Ottumwa with Sara. Jen inherited a house when her Uncle John passed away in Ottumwa. It was nice house… Read More »10-28-08 & 10-30-08
Here in the greater metropolitan area of Boone, Iowa we got somewhat of a blizzard starting last Saturday night and going into Sunday. While in Boone we didn’t get a ton of snow, we did get a ton of wind. On Saturday afternoon I went to watch the Iowa State… Read More »The “Great Blizzard” of 2019
I decided recently to buy a set of neutral density filters. I considered spending a good chunk of coin on some really nice filters, but while I was poking around looking for a set to buy I came across a set of 40 filters for cheap. Now I’m not a… Read More »That Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t There
Another Throwback Thursday. Throwing it back to pictures I took at the 2006 Iowa State Fair. These picture never appeared in “An Artist’s Notebook”. I uploaded them now because I am going through some nearly pre-Photography 139 photos and trying to get a grasp of a semblance of an organizational… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2006
Way back in May of 2018 I went to the Boone Area Humane Society’s Dog Obedience School to take some pictures of the class for the Boone Area Humane Society newsletter. A publication of some note. I have no clue what picture they used, but here are some of the… Read More »Obedient Dog
There is nothing particularly memorable about the Boone County Fair. It is just your typical rural county, county fair. But it is my rural county and my county fair, so I visit it a few times each year. Once to participate in the barbecue competition with Baby Got Rack. Another… Read More »Our County Fair is an Average County Fair…
I thought I would take a Friday off from regaling you with events from the Alamo Bowl Road Trip because, I do now own the drone that I have been planning to own for several months now. While admittedly, I only reached 9 of my 10 goals, nobody has seemed… Read More »Remember Tonight…
Loyal leaders may recall that I started up the Selfie Project again in 2019. At the end of every month I will check-in with it to share some of my favorites from the month. If you don’t want to wait until the end of the month, you can follow me… Read More »Selfie Project – January
There is quite the collection of images in the folder called 10-13-08. I can’t possibly include all of them in this here entry, so I’ll just have to pick out a few that I like the most. The pictures range from Gyro Day at the Computer Mine to the Ames… Read More »10-13-08
We loaded up the car and I punched the address of the Branch Davidians Compound into the GPS. I had absolutely no clue what we would find what we would find when we got to the place where 76 people died in the Waco Siege. You see, we had stayed… Read More »Alamo Bowl Road Trip: Branch Davidians
While I was preparing to write this entry I went down a rabbit hole on the origins of the term “swan song”. I have heard the term many times, but never really understood what it meant. Apparently there is a belief dating back to ancient Greece that swans stay mostly… Read More »The Proverbial Swan Song
Back in May I spied a yellow bird dancing around the branches of my cherry trees inspecting my cherry blossoms. I quickly grabbed the Alpha 77ii and went about the business of photographing the little guy. My neighbor to the east was outside and she tried to strike up a… Read More »Hope is the Thing with Feathers
I slept like a baby. Like an angel. Like a baby angel. I woke up in the morning ready to take on the world. After I got out of the shower I decided to walk the Motel 6 grounds to check out the lay of the land. I carried the… Read More »Alamo Bowl Road Trip: Magnolia
There are two types of pictures in the folder called 10-01-08. The first types are pictures taken during the restoration process of the Ames Party Bus. The second type is everybody’s favorite: flowers! Have a looksie! ON a future blog I will rehash the rise and ultimate demise of the… Read More »10-01-08
This collection of pictures come from a trip I had to Dickcissel Park with Naima back in late may. This must have been right before she started her allergy medication because as you will see, one of her eyes is looking pretty rough. Her allergy medicine isn’t cheap, but it… Read More »Dickcissel Park & Naima
Hitting the 2018 backlog. All of the pictures in this post were taken on June 26 in my yard. Except for the clematis. The clematis actually grows on the back fence of Stan and Noreen’s yard. Noreen is brilliant at growing clematis. A flower that is not easy to grow.… Read More »When I Walk with You…
Hitting up the 2018 backlog. Here is a collection of pictures I took on May 5 on a trip to Dickcissel Park with Naima: There are plenty of other pictures of Naima in the 2018 backlog. Plenty more!
Yes Virginia, there was a Photography 139 Calendar this year. However, I didn’t sell them this year. I just made a small run and gave them out to a very few small group of select people. Here are the pictures from the 2019 Photography 139 Calendar: The front cover is… Read More »2019 Photography 139 Calendar
Happy New Year to people who celebrate such things. I like to look at some meaningless statistics every 250 posts and I also look at fairly meaningless year end statistics. Just so happens that I get to combine them today!! Here is both a year in review and a celebration… Read More »Post #3252 – 2018 Year in Review
One of the photo projects I worked on in early 2018 was grabbing miscellaneous pictures for the Boone First United Methodist Church Directory. The person in charge of putting the directory together wanted some pictures of the Bell Choir and some pictures of Doug sermonizing. That is why these pictures… Read More »Boone FUMC Church Directory: Chapter 1
The images in the folder 09-21-08 run the gamut. There are pictures from Steve’s garden, pictures of my Aunt Linda, pictures of Brandon from his Senior Pictures Photo Shoot, and a picture of the table that became my kitchen table, eventually. The group pictures are from a Majors Family Reunion.… Read More »09-21-08