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
The pictures in the folders 2010-04-22, 2010-04-24, & 2010-04-25 are mostly interconnected. The grand majority of the pictures were take on the first day I took of vacation back in 2010. A ton of them are tulip picture. But there are also some frog pictures. Flowertography and frogtography in one… Read More »2010-04-22, 2010-04-24, & 2010-04-25
Today is a collection of small folders with a just a couple images here and there, that I just wanted to get cleaned up and out of my organizational workflow. Feels good to get some of those cobwebs cleared out.
Today I’d like to share a collection of flower pictures I took in late June. Still plenty of flower pictures left to curate.
The grand majority of pictures from the folder 2010-04-19 are from the Iowa State’s Spring Game in 2010. There is also one picture that was used for Week 15 of Year 1 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme was LONG EXPOSURE. Looking through these pictures really made me miss… Read More »2010-04-19
Today I want to share the balance of the images from the sunflower field at Badger Creek Recreation Area near Van Meter. I’ll definitely have to try to get back there next year. Could be an annual trip. Like my trips to State Center and Pella. At least they are… Read More »Painted Without Instruction – 2020 – Beta
Here is a collection of flower pictures I took with a flash ring back in late July. Lilies. Hollyhocks. Moonflowers. Oh my! I think I’ve finally started to put a dent into all the flower pictures I’ve taken during the pandemic. Maybe not a big dent, but you can definitely… Read More »Who You Are to Me
Back in August I started experimenting with bellows to take macro images. Here is a handful (and by handful, I mean a handful if you are the man who killed Inigo Montoya’s father) of images from the fist trial run. These pictures are only the slightest cropped to remove a… Read More »SupercalifragilisticMACROlidocious
The inspiration for today’s picture collection was beautiful flowers. The inspiration for today’s “An Artist’s Notebook” journal title is from a for King & Country song entitled “Together”. Think we are all probably looking for a little hope after the sh!tshow that was the Presidential Debate on Tuesday. This is… Read More »If You’re Looking for Hope
Back in late July, it was all the rage to go to the sunflower field at Badger Creek Recreation Area and post photos. So, one Saturday morning, Teresa, Mom, and I loaded up into the car and drove down there. I didn’t post any photos on social media, but I… Read More »Painted without Instruction – 2020 – Alpha
This is a collection of flower pictures I took in late July. Most with a flash ring. The ones that aren’t were taken at Jester Park. Just a reminder that moonflowers are my favorite flowers.
In early August I went on a small road trip with my Mom. The end goal was to see some buffalo at the Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge. However, on the way there, we made a stop at the rose garden in State Center. Early August has the potential to be… Read More »Sorrow and Gladness – 2020
Every once in awhile, and it is a very rare every once in awhile, people ask me where I come up with the titles for my “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. The once that aren’t glaringly obvious. Frequently they are taken from quotes. But frequently they are taken from songs I’m… Read More »That Wasn’t Me