ROAD TRIP! What a great theme and an even better way to spend a day or two. Nothing calls to me like the open road. But did it call to many other people? Or did people stay firmly entrenched on their couches? You will have to keep scrolling to find… Read More »WPC – WEEK 398 – ROAD TRIP
Today seems like a good day to share the rest of the pictures that I considered for the 2023 Photography 139 Calendar, but did not use. Just because I rejected these images this year, doesn’t mean that one of them couldn’t show up in a future calendar. +++++++ This is… Read More »Tried So Hard to Be Everything that You Liked
Today I’m going to share a collection of images that I took for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme BLACK & WHITE, but they didn’t make the cut. As you know, BLACK & WHITE is my first love in photography and therefore will always be a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »I Wore Makeup When We Dated
I’m kicking the decision about Formal Portrait Sunday down the road another week. This collection is the last of the pictures I took in 2021 to share. A couple are from Halloween night. I don’t get many trick-or-treaters I know these days. So there are only two pictures of people… Read More »On Balance – 2021
Here is the third and final collection of tulip images from Pella I took back at the beginning of May. A garden I would like to visit in the future is the Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden, but it is only open to the public from 12-2 on Fridays.… Read More »Still Laughing – 2022 – Collection 3
#INSTAGOOD proved to be a pretty popular theme. Which is good, because there literally isn’t an easier theme on the Year 9 Calendar. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, April 25, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: + Angie DeWaard – 1 week + Jesse Howard – 1… Read More »WPC – WEEK 346 – #INSTAGOOD
The pictures in the folders 2011-04-10, 2011-04-17, and 2011-04-23 are mostly of tulips from a trip I took to Pella back in 2011. But there are also a couple pictures there from Year 2 of the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. I’m pretty sure that over 10 years later those same… Read More »2011-04-10, 2011-04-17, and 2011-04-23
It is -9 degrees as I sit down to write this entry. I don’t mind the cold too much, but it still makes me long for warm August days and the Iowa State Fair. Standing in the Discovery Garden, photographing flowers. One of my organizational projects of 2021 is to… Read More »Closer to You
A few weeks back Jesse and I traveled up north to harvest the town signs of Cerro Gordo and Worth County. This trip included a stop at the Music Man Square in Mason City. Music Man Square is devoted to the history of famous composer. Wilson is most famous for… Read More »Cerro Gordo and Worth County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
This Saturday from 8-12 we are going to have the final sale at my Mom’s house. There is still lots of glassware and collectibles for sale. A few tools. Many decorations. Maybe some furniture. Some other stuff will be added this week as well I’m sure. The address is 111… Read More »Painted Without Instruction – 2021
I usually like to make it to Pella about a week before their annual Tulip Festival. It is a perfect combination of nobody is around and most of the flowers are blooming. This year I bungled my calendar and didn’t end up there until a week after the Tulip Festival.… Read More »Orange City’s Little Cousin
This collection of images is cleaning up some random photos from January and February. The highlight and the majority of these images are taken from when Logan brought Dahlia over see Mom and Teresa. That was a good day! +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »Congregation
This is the third and final batch of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85. These (most of them) pictures were taken at the sculpture garden in downtown Des Moines. I still might get into the technical details of the Lensbaby Velvet 85 some day, but today… Read More »Even More of that Velvet 85
Here is another small collection of some of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85 back in January: I’m still going to go into some detail about what makes the Lensbaby Velvet 85 such a special unique lens at some point. Just not today. +++++++ This is… Read More »More of that Velvet 85
I should point out that I messed up the coding in yesterday’s post. You should go to that post again to see the corrections in the code that allow you to see Kim’s and Shannon’s submissions. My Christmas present to my self was a Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 lens. I… Read More »Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8
The March image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken at Badger Creek Recreation Area. It was taken in the sunflower field there. It was taken on July 25, 2020. It was taken with a Lensbaby lens. Here are some details on the picture: DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 LENS:… Read More »Rodan139: Community Thanksgiving
The January image of the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar was taken in lower Ledges. It was taken on January 4, 2020. It was taken shortly after a recent snow fall. One sad part about the printed version of this picture in the calendar is that the picnic table gets cut… Read More »Kanoa at 1!
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
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
31 straight weeks of double digit submissions!! The third straight week that I didn’t send any reminder text messages this morning and still made double digits like it ain’t no thing, but a chicken wing on a string. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot… Read More »WPC – WEEK 242 – TREE
30 straight weeks with double digits!! The second straight week that I didn’t send any reminder text messages this morning and still made double digits easy. You dig? But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Elizabeth… Read More »WPC – WEEK 241 – NOSE