Iowa State Fair 2018 – More Flowers
Here is the balance of my flower pictures from my trips to the Iowa State Fair in 2018: I have one last collection of 2018 Iowa State Fair backlog pictures coming your way.
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Iowa State Fair 2018 – More Animals
You can still technically vote in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Poll right now, but it will shut down at some point today. So if you haven’t voted yet, then you need to get on it. By the time this post publishes, Baby Got Rack will have been judged and… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2018 – More Animals
Iowa State Fair – 2018 – Animals
There are just a couple of day s left to vote in my polls that will determine what pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting in 6 polls at once in too much for you, you can vote in one of the Hidden Treasures of Bone… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – Animals
2009-04-28 & 2009-05-01
There are only 3 days left to vote for what pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If you don’t think you have the time or energy to vote in all 6 polls right now, you can vote for one of the Nature polls right now! Nature Set… Read More »2009-04-28 & 2009-05-01
Iowa State Fair – 2018 – DNR
There are now 5 days left to vote for what pictures I will enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If it is too much for you to take on all 6 polls at once, you can vote in the Photojournalism poll below. At this point, there is a clear… Read More »Iowa State Fair – 2018 – DNR
Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 2
Reminder, there are 6 days left to vote for the pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting for 6 photos at one time is too much for you, you can vote for my Photoshop entry below: If you are ready to vote in all 6 polls,… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 2
Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 1
Before we get into pictures from the Indianola Balloon Festival I want to point out that I have been tinkering with the way that the blog comes to the inbox of Photography 139 email subscribers. If you have a gmail email account, you should have noticed the change starting on… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 1
Available as Another Possibility
It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a… Read More »Available as Another Possibility
WPC – WEEK 202 – BLACK & WHITE
My favorite theme was a very popular theme. BLACK & WHITE had a plethora of submissions from such exotic places as New York City to Indianola to Mount Pleasant to Roland to Woodward to near Adel. I was expecting a submission from Canada, but I’m guessing that that person just… Read More »WPC – WEEK 202 – BLACK & WHITE
A Photo Journal – Page 73
A week or so ago the largest steam engine in the world pulled into Boone and spent the night. I wasn’t able to get a lot of great pictures of it because of its location and my work schedule at the computer mine. However, I was able to get a… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 73
Baby Got Rack Takes the Boone County Fair
Last Saturday was the annual Boone County Fair barbecue contest. Baby Got Rack decided to take a different tact this time. Rather than entering the pizza, we decided to enter something new. Meatloaf Cupcakes. This was a big risk just based on the fact that the pizza was a surefire… Read More »Baby Got Rack Takes the Boone County Fair
WPC – WEEK 201 – ANGER
I thought for sure that this week would not be a double digit week, but it was! The 4th straight week! That makes me happy that so many of you found your ANGER, which I consider to be one of the hardest them of this set of 52. A note,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 201 – ANGER
Boone County Fair Photography Contest Results
Now that the Boone County Fair is winding down and my collection of Boone County Fair Photography Contest entries are bagged up and safely stowed in one of the now TWO trunks that archive my past photo contest entries, I can release the results to the general public that didn’t… Read More »Boone County Fair Photography Contest Results
2009-02-24 – Arizona Day 8
The pictures in the folder 2009-02-24/Arizona_Day_8 are from my last day in Arizona after the CMM had wrapped up. I took one last stroll around Satan’s Ashtray and then headed for the airport and back to Iowa. Back to where my new house was sitting there waiting. Waiting to be… Read More »2009-02-24 – Arizona Day 8
The Chicken Man
While I was hitting that 2018 backlog I realized that I have made a dreadful mistake. Last year Scott Krause dominated the chicken world at the Boone County Fair. He asked me to take a picture of him and his Champion Chicken. I gladly did so and then went home… Read More »The Chicken Man
Rajon Rando
WARNING: THERE ARE BOTH LEGITIMATELY DISTURBING IMAGES AND DEPICTIONS OF THE FEMALE BODY IN THE NUDE. IF THAT ISN’T YOUR CUP OF TEA, FEEL FREE TO SKIP STRAIGHT PAST TODAY’S BLOG NO SERIOUSLY. NORMALLY WHEN I PUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS UP, THE DISTURBING IMAGE IS A PICTURE OF AN IOWA… Read More »Rajon Rando
WPC – WEEK 196 – TREE
Once again, we had a week of double digit submissions. I believe that to be the third consecutive week. People like TREE(s). A bunch of TREE huggers,the lot of you! Which is good, because people who don’t like TREE(s) aren’t good people. But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 196 – TREE
A Photo Journal – Page 37
Last Saturday in between seeing GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS and heading up to Kamrar, for a birthday dinner, I talked Nader into posing for Page 37 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Page 37 – Use aperture to capture melancholy. I took a few other pictures of Nader before picking out… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 37
Rodan139 – Kamrar
I recently went to Pickles in Kamrar with Jesse, Jay, and Nader to celebrate my birthday. I packed up my camera and Rodan139 because I intended on knocking out a couple of needed photos on the trip. #1. I wanted get my GROUP PHOTO image for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.… Read More »Rodan139 – Kamrar
2009-02-18 – Arizona Day 4
The pictures in the folder called 2009-02-18/Arizona Day 4 are from my work/vacation to Arizona. Jesse and I spent the night at his brother’s house. We got up in the morning and ate at a local eatery. Then we visited a National Park called the Casa Grande Ruins. I think… Read More »2009-02-18 – Arizona Day 4
A Photo Journal – Page 21
This week I knocked out Page 21 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. I took one of the rubber dinosaurs I seem to have in every room of the house. Page 21 – Make something small look big. While only one picture can be adhered into the physical THE PHOTO JOURNAL,… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 21