All the pictures in the folder 2010-05-26 are of daisies. I believe they are from a daisy patch in Cap Erbe Park. They were taken for Personal Photo Project #24 – “The Girl in the Blue Skirt”. I’ve had mixed results growing these kind of daisies in my yard. Some… Read More »2010-05-26
Here is another collection of pictures of me playing with the concept of freezing a flower in ice and then taking a picture of it. The flower is a zinnia. I believe that this is the time I switched to making ice with distilled water. I should have kept better… Read More »Marnie
There was a very large collection of images in the folder 2010-05-24. Most of them are flower pictures. Some taken from my yard. Others taken from Reiman Gardens. I’ll just get to it, because there is a ton of photos here: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery,… Read More »2010-05-24
I need to start the day by wishing a couple people a happy birthday. I need to start with my nephew Brandon. Happy birthday Brandon! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ It is also Frank’s birthday. Frank was instrumental in getting this… Read More »On the Rocks
Today’s collection of pictures was taken in the middle of August. I was still playing around with photographing a flower frozen in a block of ice. I was still using a normal daisy. This is a concept that I will continue to play with in the future and this wasn’t… Read More »Girl Don’t Play the Fool Now
Here is a collection of pictures I took at Dickcissel back in early September. Mostly of Naima, but one wildflower picture. Naima sure enjoys her trips to Dickcissel.
Just a quick little collection of pictures from here and there to clean up some small folders that hadn’t been curated, so they can be put to bed and the robocopy script ran upon their heads. There are some larger photo shoots I really need to start tackling. Can’t put… Read More »Ivor the Engine Driver
The pictures in the folder 2010-05-07 were all taken in Brookside Park. Some during the day. Some at night. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory: PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT OF THE WEEK… Read More »2010-05-07
When I got a refund for my Iowa State football season tickets back in August, I used the money and put it towards the purchase of a new lens. The biggest gap in my Sony mirrorless line up was what I would call a mid-telephoto lens. I don’t need a… Read More »Tamron 70-180 f/2.8
I need to start today by wishing all veterans a Happy Veterans Day! Happy Veterans Day! Here are some facts about the veteran population in the United States from the History Channel: 18.2 million living veterans served during at least one war as of 2018. 9 percent of veterans are… Read More »Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day
I just want to start by congratulating Joe Biden on winning the election to become the next President of the United States of America! Back when I was on President Quest 2020, my search for who would be the next President of the United States, I did go see Joe… Read More »Spread the Faith
The pictures from the folder 2010-05-02 are from the day that Alexis and my Mom came over and planted some flowers at my house. Mostly around my light post. A flowerbed that I am going to expand, maybe considerably, in 2021. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery,… Read More »2010-05-02
I need to begin today by wishing Elainie a happy birthday. Happy birthday Elainie! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be. +++++++ Back in late October, we got a bit of unexpected snow. I took a few flower pictures afterwards. Fortunately, fall weather wasn’t… Read More »In the Cold October Snow
Back in September, I took some supermacro images while I was expereminting with bellows. I need to get back to that. Macro photography is a good winter photo subject. Not that I’m ready to give up the out of doors yet, or at all, but you know what I’m saying.… Read More »Macrolicious
This post is mostly a catch-all of cleaning up some image collections taken back in August, that were either going to part of bigger journal entries that I have abandoned or just a few rando pictures taken here and there that I just want to clean up and get out… Read More »A Little Here, A Little There
I took these pictures on what was surely a beautiful July day. I was beginning to work on a photo project where I freeze a flower in a block of ice. I still really haven’t got one I’m looking for exactly, but this was the beginning of the dream. A… Read More »Ice Ice Daisy
Whew! This is a big one. Just by adding these pictures to the SmugMug Gallery from the folder 2010-04-29, I was able to fix 5 “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. I believe I added pictures to 14 different photo albums. The pictures in this folder are taken from over several days… Read More »2010-04-29
Here is another collection of alternates for last week’s BLACK AND WHITE theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some were taken on my way back from Manhattan, Kansas. Some were taken around my house. Some were taken around my Mom’s house. Some were taken out by Don Williams. I can’t… Read More »Back in Black and White
Here is a collection of flower pictures that I took back in July. I could see one of these making the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar. I actually had a request of sorts on a picture to put in the calendar. First time that has happened in quite some time. The… Read More »Flower Deeds. Done Dirt Cheap.
You know that BLACK AND WHITE is my favorite theme. You know darn well that I’m going to have lots of BLACK AND WHITE alternates. Lots and lots of alternates. Actually I think I have less alternates than I normally do for BLACK AND WHITE. That being said, I’m still… Read More »Put that Fire in Your Soul
I should start by pointing out that I jacked up Kalista’s submission yesterday for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. This is what it was: Kalista Howard It came in after the 11 AM deadline and in my haste to get the picture posted before the 12:01 autopublish, I didn’t double check… Read More »It’s Been a Long Time Coming