Nature’s Amen – 2012 As Boone’s premiere hollyhock gardener I felt that I better take more photos of my hollyhocks this year than last year. The week’s Personal Photo Project reflects that commitment. More from the Nature’s Amen – 2012 Series: More hollyhocks tomorrow!
Happy Things – 2012 This week’s project was to photograph coneflowers. Coneflowers are probably a top 5 flower for me. Admittedly, they aren’t much to look at, but I find the transformation the flower makes over its total lifespan to be fascinating. The rest of the Happy Things – 2012… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #128
Unceasing Effort I’m sure that it is well documented that I love alliums. They are definitely in my top 5 favorite flowers. Probably top 3. This week’s project was simply to photograph alliums. The rest of the Unceasing Effort Series: I was fortunate to grow some alliums this year. I… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #127
More pictures from the The Girl in the Blue Skirt Alpha – 2012 Series: Not entirely sure what next week’s Personal Photo Project of the Week will involve. It all depends on what I can get edited. Best guess is that it will involve aliums.
The Girl in the Blue Skirt Alpha – 2012 This week’s photo project was to photograph daisies. More of the The Girl in the Blue Skirt Alpha – 2012 Series: More daisy pictures tomorrow.
Conundrum This week’s Personal Photo Project kind of borders on the edge of being a failure. I wanted to photograph this flower because I found it to be interesting looking. Unforutnately, the time I took these pictures is the only time I saw this flower blooming. I checked on it… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #120
Tree Library This week’s project was to take a few photos at the Iowa Arboretum as I was scouting it for a wedding that I was going to be photographing in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I ended up having very little time out there to photograph as by the… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #119
The rest of the pictures from my annual trip to the Northwest Greenhouse with my Mom. Also known as the Plant Happiness – 2012 Series. I made a deal with Vivian while I was there to give her one of these pictures for their store. I guess I need to… Read More »Personal Photo Project Week #117 Beta
Plant Happiness – 2012 Pictures from my annual trip to the Northwest Greenhouse with my Mom. More pictures from the Plant Happiness – 2012 Series: More from the Northwest Greenhouse “tomorrow” – “nudge-nudge. wink-wink.”
Mad with Joy – 2012 This year’s iris pictures came from my Mom’s irises, my Grandma’s irises, and some irises next to a small country church in the middle of nowhere. The rest of the Mad with Joy – 2012 Series: I have to confess that my hatred of irises… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #116
A few weeks back I posted about a collection of photos of mine that grace the wall of the United Way of Story County’s lobby wall. I finally got a chance to get down there to see the wall in its glory on Saturday before Shannon and I went to… Read More »United Way Wall
In one of my few blogs of the last few months I wrote about a camera phone app called Lightbox. I wrote how I was tired of waiting for Instagram to come to Droid, so I was trying out an alternative. In the last week or so, Instagram finally came… Read More »Instagram!
There has been a void in my computer bag since last August when my favorite lens went kaput. I finally got around to replacing it recently. Tamron 60mm Macro Lens This is the 1st picture I took with the new lens. Here are a few of the technical specifications of… Read More »Tamron SP60mm f/2 Di II 1:1 Macro Auto Focus Lens
Sorrow and Gladness – 2012 My annual trip to the State Center Rose Garden was kind of bittersweet. I went earlier than normal because of how early flowers have been blooming this year. As it turns out, I probably went too early and it was definitely too windy to get… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #110
Whispering Beauty – 2012 Peonies are perhaps my favorite flower that I don’t own. I’ve been considering remedying that recently, I’m just not quite sure where to put them in my yard. They are also the one flower I think that just begs you to go crazy with the saturation.… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #108
Can Upset Stomach If Eaten in High Quantity This week’s project was to photograph some of my grandma’s chives. More pictures from the Can Upset Stomach if Eaten in High Quantity Series:
Rebels This week’s project was to photograph my Mom’s columbines. More from the Rebels Series: Columbines are a very photogenic flower. I’ll have to revisit them again next year.
Shannon contacted me about contributing some photos to the wall near her desk at the United Way of Story County office a couple months back. I was able to get those pictures ordered for her and she got them on the wall a couple weeks back. I don’t have a… Read More »United Way Wall
Still Laughing 2012 There are a lot fewer tulip pictures this year, both the obvious and the weather played a big part in that. In fact, due to the fact that almost all flowers are blooming a month early this year, I’m pretty sure I will miss out on most… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #100
I only had time last year to make a handful of calendars. If you didn’t get a calendar this year, I am sorry. I only had one left and I gave it to Nader because he actually called and asked for one. If somebody begged I suppose I could print… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #99
Dissimilitude This project was to take some pictures with the High Contrast Monochrome setting on the Alpha 35. I probably don’t play with this setting enough. More pictures from The Dissimilitude Series: If you are wondering, I don’t know the chick in the last picture in front of Gaslamp. She… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #97