Now that the State Fair has ran its inevitable course, I can reveal what pictures I entered in the State Fair Photography Salon.
I guess this means I need to start focusing some effort on the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest.
The submissions for FEET:
Cathie Raley A
Cathie Raley B
Cathie Raley C
Christopher D. Bennett
Mike Vest A
Mike Vest B
Julie Johnson
The theme for next week is:
This is a twist on a theme from last year, so there isn’t a need for a look back.
I don’t want to get arrogant, (since my last attempt was a complete and utter failure) but I will hopefully be on vacation in Minnesota at this time next week. Therefore I will probably not be near a computer and able to publish your submissions. So what will publish at this time next week will just be the theme for the following week. I will publish any submissions later in the week when I return.
A few weeks back I went on a road trip with Sara, Cousin Amy, and the Funk to have lunch at an Amish woman’s house in Kalona. The trip was set up by the Funk who has ties to the Amish community in Kalona as she is formerly Amish.
I’ve really only known the Funk for a few months now, but she is truly one of the most fascinating human beings I’ve ever met. Not just because she is formerly Amish, but I can’t lie, that part fascinates me.
I really find the Amish community to be fascinating and to have somebody to ask question after question after question after question to is really cool for me.
The pictures of the Amish woman’s (Ruby Miller) house are being held back for Personal Photo Project #77, but here are a sampling of the other pictures we took on this incredible day.
Disclaimer: I go to Kalona about once or twice a year with my Mom. I never photograph the Amish while I’m there because I know that it is not something that they would enjoy (clearly not the right word). But on this trip I did take a couple of pictures of some Amish at the urging of the Funk. One of the pictures I took was of an Amish volleyball tournament. I really wish I would have been able to stop the car and enter the tournament. I have a history of dominating religious tournaments. A Pentecostal volleyball tournament here and a Mormon basketball tournament there. However, Amish volleyball tournament was not to be added to my list of life experiences.
Kalona Dairy
Kalona Dairy
Picture for The Story Project
Flower for Sale at the Bakery
The Funk in the Community Store
The Funk in the Community Store
Clematis
Good Grass Fed Beef
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Sara in Stringtown
Another bonus of this trip was taking Sara to Sister’s Garden. I’ve always kind of viewed it as Sara’s mothership even though she had never been there before. Now that has been remedied.
Next week’s Wednesday random picture collection will be from a baseball game I attended in Minnesota.
More pictures of my Grandma’s flowers…
More pictures from the Whispering Beauty Series tomorrow.
This actually started out to just be pictures of my Grandma’s peonies, but it encompassed several of her flowers at the time I photographed them.
Here are more pictures from the Whispering Beauty Series.
More pictures from my Grandma’s garden tomorrow.
These pictures are from a vacation we took up near the Nisswa area.
These pictures come from:
Backup/Old My Pictures/Minnesota Vacation
Next week’s folder is:
Backup/Old My Pictures/New Folder
Unfortunately I have been so busy this year that I have only made one trip to so some frog photography. That seems like a minor tragedy that I should remedy sometime soon. Perhaps over the 4th of July weekend.
Here are more frog pictures from the Time’s Fun Series.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project involves a trip to Northwest Greenhouse.
After I got done hanging out with the Augustin turkeys, I spent some quality time with their peacocks. Here are more pictures from the Ugly Feet Series.
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve frogs.
I took these pictures of turkeys at Micky’s dad’s place after our turkey “hunt”.
If you are interested in Micky’s world, I would urge you to visit his new re-designed website:
Next week’s Personal Photo Project deals with that most tricky of birds, the peacock.
These pictures are from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Insects
IMAGE LOST
Grasshopper
I believe both of these pictures were taken at Ledges when we were photographing Willy’s part of The Beaver Machete Massacre Project. For some reason that makes me nostalgic for having a day off in the middle of the week. That must mean I’m in desperate need of a vacation.
Next week’s folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/JC Janson
