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
GROUP PORTRAIT turned out to be surprisingly popular. When I woke from my slumbers this morning, about 15 minutes after arriving at the computer mine, I had only received 2 submissions. I thought there was no way we would get to double digits for submissions. But as the morning unfolded,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 194 – GROUP PORTRAIT
On Sunday before May Movie Night/Grill-out, I went out by the Fraser Spring to fly Rodan139. My original intention was to take a picture for the aerial photography class of the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. However, I didn’t really love any images I got enough to enter them in… Read More »Rodan139 – Fraser
When Jesse and I went on my pre-birthday road trip to Decorah I packed Rodan139 with me at the thought that I’d be able to crack it out someplace along the road trip. While Decorah and two waterfalls were the ultimate purpose of the road trip, I also thought that… Read More »Rodan 139 – Small Church
A month or so ago I took Rodan139 out to Don Williams to do a little drone photography. There was no crash or anything that was anything that even remotely resembled a crash, but there was a weird issue where my phone kept disconnecting from the drone. It wasn’t an… Read More »Rodan 139 – Don Williams
First things first. Even though Photography 139 doesn’t take days off, it does acknowledge holidays. I hope you have had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend, but also take the time to remember why it is you got a 3 day weekend. To honor the people who have died while serving… Read More »WPC – WEEK 193 – BLUE
Last Friday I took a birthday road trip with Jesse. It wasn’t my birthday, but it was the day before my birthday and I knew my actual birthday was going to be filled with working on my Mom’s bedroom ceiling and graduation open houses. So I took Friday off from… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 104
Dipping into the backlog again. This post finishes off all of the backlog from May of 2018! WooHoo! It once again draws on a consistent theme. Me taking pictures of Naima at Dickcissel Park. You might be wondering why I took so many of these pictures last year. The reason… Read More »Naima Takes Dickcissel
It has been awhile since we checked in with THE SELFIE PROJECT. I figured today was as good of a day as any to check out March before April is over. I’m not sure I did more interesting things in March than I did in February or January where it… Read More »Selfie Project – March
A couple Saturdays back I took Rodan139 back to the Harrier Marsh for a bit of a joy flight. I’m not sure I really had an agenda. Just wanted to take it out for a bit of a flight and snap a few photos. It was on this trip that… Read More »Back to Harrier
A few weeks back Rodan139 took a tremendous tumble from the sky. According to the flight log, Rodan139 fell out of the sky from 190 feet. It was going 40.3 MPH when it hit sweet, round, Mother Earth. Rodan139 was a hurting unit when I got to it. A couple… Read More »Lazarus Come Out!
You probably thought that with the weather warming up, you’d see more drone pictures courtesy of Rodan139. However, sadly. I have to report that Rodan139 met with a bit of a tragedy a couple weeks ago. Inexplicably, Rodan139 just fell out of the sky from about 200 feet. It was… Read More »Requiem for Rodan139
Last Thursday, the weather was actually warm enough that I was able to take the drone (from now on referred to as Rodan139) out to the Jay Carlson Wildlife Area for a few trips across the sky. Here are a few photos from the friendly skies: In the few weeks… Read More »Almost Divine
Seems like a good time to check in with the progress on THE SELFIE PROJECT. I don’t think that February was my best work. Apparently I need to get out more and see more people because it seems like I didn’t leave my house much in February from these pictures.… Read More »Selfie Project – February
I took a few alternate TRANSPORTATION pictures for last week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. All of these were taken with the new drone. There will be a more comprehensive blog on the drone if it ever warms up and I get to actually make some videos and what-not. I don’t know… Read More »Transportation – Alternate
A great week of participation for the theme TRANSPORTATION. Despite the blizzard or perhaps because of the blizzard a lot of people got some great TRANSPORTATION photos. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Christopher D.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 180 – TRANSPORTATION
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…