Last week’s theme really fired the imagination of some contributors as multiple people submitted multiple images for PAINTING WITH LIGHT. Mike Vest A Mike Vest B Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland A Carla Stensland B Dawn Krause A Dawn Krause B Justin Whitaker Dawn Weekly Poem Painting with Light Oh… Read More »RWPE #22 – Painting with Light
With the big holiday weekend there weren’t many submissions for last week’s theme – HARMONY. In fact, there were only two. Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest The Random Generator has spoken. The theme for this week is: Painting with Light This one is kind of tricky and involves… Read More »RWPE #21 – Harmony
Here are the submissions for last week’s theme – WILD: Dawn Krause A Dawn Krause B Michael Vest of Waxen Media Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey There were a couple of late submissions for FEET. They can be seen on the… Read More »RWPE #18 – Wild
“I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them? ” – The Birds I spent a good portion of my first day of vacation working on… Read More »Vacation Day 1 – The Birds
Here are a few extra, bonus images from the Lone Wolf photo shoot with Sara. Sara was full of creative ideas on this night and she helped improvise when I realized that I had left a key part of my tripod at home, making the tripod essentially useless and making… Read More »Lone Wolf Extras
These pictures were never in the running for RWPE #2 – Soothing, but I took them at the same time and keep forgetting to post them. I love fog.
The Eternal Seductiveness of Life Because the calendar is a landscape medium, this picture actually appears in the calendar in landscape form with not much of the allium showing but the flower. It was originally taken in portrait orientation.
This picture of Sara is still untitled. For the story behind this image, click on the link below: Sore Feet
Here is a look at the pictures that the committee had to choose from, but received no love. “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, Guess I’ll go eat worms, Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones, Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms. Down goes the first one, down goes the… Read More »Think I’ll Go Eat Worms
Becky made the final selection. Misplaced Plant Becky also had other pictures that she liked. They are below with the reason she liked them. “Fire Pit – Everyone can relate to this photo.” “Fireworks Fallout – This photo is original” “Color Daisies – This photo feels hopeful.” “Story St Fire… Read More »Becky Perkovich
My mom doesn’t own a computer or even know how to use one, so I had to bring her over to the Honest Abe office to have her look over the pictures for her to pick one. “Pardon and Sanctify Me” I actually thought that she would pick this one.… Read More »Charlotte Bennett (Mom)
I was pleasantly surprised by Jill’s choice. Since I had decided to have all people of the female persuasion pick the photos this year, I thought a frog picture would get very little love. But Jill came through for the frog. “It’ll Do Fine” I actually struggled with the naming… Read More »Jill Gorshe
I went to a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association on Friday night with Sara and Amy. It was an interesting evening. The basic point of the night was wine tasting and art for sale. I don’t drink, so I mostly looked at art. However, there was one point where… Read More »Raise a Glass
On Friday night I went to an American Diabetes Fundraiser with Sara and Cousin Amy. I have more to write on that little evening, but I will wait until I get the pictures from that event from Sara. After we left the event, Sara and Amy agreed to accompany me… Read More »Sore Feet
A little before the 4th of July, I purchased a box of sparklers. I had some thought of what I wanted to do with them, but seeing how I’m never at home and few people visit me at night, I had not much of an opportunity to do what I… Read More »The Most Tolerable Third Party
I had a pretty great 4th of July! I woke up in the morning and headed to Ames at about 9 am. I met Shannon and her cousin Matthew for a pretty sweet breakfast of biscuits and gravy that Shannon made. Then I headed over to Jen and Derrick’s to… Read More »4th of July
I was yet to be satisfied with my images of the alliums, so I wandered back for a 3rd session with the night and the flowers. When I look at these pictures, I recall the words of Marc Chagall: “Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of… Read More »Night Flowers: Session 3
After the failures of the first night, I made some adjustments and went out and took some more night flower pictures: Much more was learned.
I bought a new camera recently. If you are lucky (very lucky) you might even get to see it someday. If you are blessed beyond belief, you may actually get to even touch it someday. I’ve been experimenting with taking pictures of flowers at night with this new camera. That… Read More »Night Flowers: Session 1
Day 6 in Arizona was more work. At the conclusion of the work day, we were bused out into the “middle of the desert” for a “western roundup” party. If you could get away from the cheeseball band that was lip syncing and playing to backing tracks, it was a… Read More »Arizona Day 6