Sorrow and Gladness – 2012 My annual trip to the State Center Rose Garden was kind of bittersweet. I went earlier than normal because of how early flowers have been blooming this year. As it turns out, I probably went too early and it was definitely too windy to get… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #110
Whispering Beauty – 2012 Peonies are perhaps my favorite flower that I don’t own. I’ve been considering remedying that recently, I’m just not quite sure where to put them in my yard. They are also the one flower I think that just begs you to go crazy with the saturation.… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #108
I have had an army of people take care of Naima while my Mom has been in an out of the hospital the last few months. I am in the debt of all those people: Jay Jason Gary Logan Alexis Johnathan Amy Herrick Carla Teresa Jim Jordan Jesse Plus, I’m… Read More »Even More Naima
Shannon contacted me about contributing some photos to the wall near her desk at the United Way of Story County office a couple months back. I was able to get those pictures ordered for her and she got them on the wall a couple weeks back. I don’t have a… Read More »United Way Wall
Portrait of a Dog I Know It is pretty well established that I like pictures of animal noses. This was simply a picture of Naima’s nose. However, since this is notoriously difficult to photograph, here are a few other attempts at dog nose from the Portrait of a Dog I… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #104
Here are a couple photos of Naima when she helped Jay & I carve our pumpkins on Halloween and a couple from her first experience with snow.
These pictures come from the following folder: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Godzilla-Transformer Combos Show of hands: How many of you can’t believe that somebody could take so many pictures of a Godzilla action figure? Next week’s folder: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Transformers
I only had time last year to make a handful of calendars. If you didn’t get a calendar this year, I am sorry. I only had one left and I gave it to Nader because he actually called and asked for one. If somebody begged I suppose I could print… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #99
The following pictures came from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Godzilla Composites You can really get an idea of how bad I used to be at Photoshop. Next week’s folder will be: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Godzilla Layers
These pictures come from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Godzilla Backgrounds Next week’s pictures will come from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Godzilla Backgrounds
These pictures came from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Crayfish Lobby Card Experiment Next week’s photos will come from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Godzilla Backgrounds
The following pictures came from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla Next week’s pictures will come from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla/Crayfish Lobby Card Experiment
Intestines of the Earth I’m sure many people clicked on a link or opened up an email and thought, I didn’t really want to see macro photography of a worm. Here is the deal. It isn’t equipment. It isn’t technical knowledge. It really isn’t even opportunity that separates artists. It… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #93
These pictures come from: Backup/My Pictures/Animals/Marsh Next week’s pictures will come from: Backup/My Pictures/Godzilla
General housekeeping note: I am so incredibly behind on my photo editing that I’m going to take a week or so off from blogging in an attempt to get caught back up. After all like the guy with all the billboards in eastern Iowa says, “No one can serve two… Read More »The Archives: Edition Forty-Three
These pictures come from: backup/My Pictures/A Scene from the Woods From now on out these pictures will be digital, for the most part. Therefore the quality of the pictures will be better, but maybe not the quality of the photography. The pictures in this folder come from the old RMB… Read More »The Archives: Edition Forty-Two
The submissions for EYE: Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett This week’s theme: PATHS A look back at last year’s submissions for PATHS: PATHS – 2010 Only 11 weeks left. Now I’m wondering if anybody is wondering what will replace the failed Random Weekly Photo Experiment on Mondays. I know nobody… Read More »RWPE Y2 #41 – EYE
I hate the phrase “things happen for a reason” more than I hate any other phrase in the world. That doesn’t mean that I don’t necessarily believe in fate, but for the most part I don’t like fate. Its plans run contrary to my plans, no matter how hard I… Read More »Giant Steps
Rancho Augustin This personal photo project was to wander and photograph the man interesting things at Rancho Augustin (not an official title). The light quit on me quicker than I wanted, so I will have to revisit this place and project again. Micky is undeniably the greatest frog photography assistant… Read More »Personal Photo Project #85
The pictures are from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Real to Life/Color Apparently at one time I thought these were some of the most important color pictures I had taken. In retrospect, I have no clue why. Next week’s folder will be: Old My Pictures/Real to Life/Special Effects