Category Archives: Iowa State

365 Day Photo Project: 71-77

I think this is also a pretty interesting collection.



Day 71 – Fall Colors


Day 72 – Red


Day 73 – Emotion


Day 74 – Something Closeup


Day 75 – On the Table


Day 76 – Landscape


Day 77 – Make You Laugh

This week’s themes:

Day 78 – A Glimpse
Day 79 – Opposites
Day 80 – A Battle
Day 81 – Made You Smile Today
Day 82 – Letters
Day 83 – A Mask
Day 84 – Creature of the Night

I’ll be interested to see where this week’s themes take me…

Iowa State vs. Tulsa

A couple weeks back I took the camera to Iowa State’s season opener. Derrick did an excellent job holding the secondary lens.

Here are a few pictures from the game:



Not sure how many games the rest of the season I’ll take the camera to, but wanted to do it at least once.

On an unrelated note, congratulations to Kim, who became the latest person to subscribe to Photography 139’s An Artist Notebook via an email subscription. Welcome aboard Kim!

365 Day Photo Project: 29-35

All things considered, I think this week went very well.


Day 29 - Rusty
Day 29 – Rusty

Day 30 - Clock
Day 30 – Clock

Day 31 - On the Horizon
Day 31 – On the Horizon

Day 32 - Card
Day 32 – Card

Day 33 - Blue Moon
Day 33 – Blue Moon

Day 34 - You, Now
Day 34 – You, Now

Day 35 - Father
Day 35 – Father

The themes for this week:

Day 36 – Far Away
Day 37 – In My Mailbox
Day 38 – A Leaf
Day 39 – Sunlight
Day 40 – Illusion
Day 41 – At Night
Day 42 – Generations

The Archives: Edition Fifty-Eight

The images below come from the following folder:

Backup/My Pictures/New Folder

The majority of these pictures come from a concert my friend Mike’s band (Lesser Known Saint) had at the M Shop.










































I remember telling Mike after the show how much I loved watching him “dance” on stage. He got mad and told me he wasn’t “dancing”, he was “thrashing”.

Lesser Known Saint was still patrolling the Twin Cities area until recently. I understand that they have broken up now and are pursuing separate projects.

Next week’s folder will be:

Backup/My Pictures/People/Display Pictures

Iowa State Spring Game

People have asked me for analysis from the Spring Game and I don’t really have much to give. I don’t really put much stock in the Spring Game for predicting anything for the coming season.

Here are my few observations. Take them for what they are worth:

  • Jerome Tiller looked the best of the quarterbacks by far. But none of them look like world beaters.
  • It looks like we have depth at all positions for the first time in a really long time.
  • Both the offensive and defensive lines look improved.
  • It was nice to see some receivers making plays. Some of the receivers we’ve had in the last couple years (Hamilton, Williams) are some of my all-time favorite Cyclones, but we have lacked a playmaker at that position since. . . . .  I don’t know. . . . Ed Williams?
  • Steele Jantz isn’t the second coming of Seneca Wallace, but there is hope that he isn’t the second coming of Lucca Staiger either.
  • The fan turn out was disappointing.  Yes it was cold. Yes you are soft if you didn’t show up.

Here are some pictures from the game:


Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

Iowa State Spring Game - 2011

I am ready for September 3rd when we demolish UNI to get the season started.

RWPE #48 – Active

Apparently the theme ACTIVE had the result of making everybody inactive. Then at least a few people should be pleased to know that ACTIVE has been eliminated as a theme for next year. Here are the submissions for a curiously inactive week:



Mike Vest


Christopher D. Bennett

I went down to the Random Theme Generator’s office and socked it a good one. As it was slightly dazed, I grabbed it by the scruff of the neck and told it to “give me a theme that will fire the creative energy of the people”.

I felt bad for ruffling the feathers of the Random Theme Generator, so I sat it down and helped straighten out the cheap suit it likes to wear on working days.

Then it spat the theme for this week out at me:

LOVE

Brilliant!

After all, everybody has somebody they love or some thing they love. Everybody should be able to come up with one visual concept or example of love. Right? If a person couldn’t, wouldn’t they in essence be a horrible shell of a person that was just barely getting by in this world? Like me on Thursday nights?

I hope my calculations are correct and there is an explosion of LOVE pictures in my mailbox next week!