It is time once again for you to help select my entries to the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Polls will close next Tuesday. All you have to do is vote in each of the 6 polls below: Photoshop Photojournalism Nature – Flower Nature – Misc. Hidden Treasures of Boone County… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Voting
LETTERS OR NUMBERS was another solid week! Hitting double digits for submissions for I think the 5th week in a row. I’ll check my math on that at some point in the future. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you came… Read More »WPC – WEEK 203 – LETTERS OR NUMBERS
The pictures in the folder named 2009-04-24 are from when Jesse and I went to Tom Harkin’s office and met with a member of his staff to encourage him to support ending the civil war in Uganda. We were very pleased with ourselves and decided to celebrate afterwards by meeting… Read More »2009-04-24
I made a recent stop at Boone’s local old timey ice cream shop for a malt and to pick up a couple glass bottles of Pepsi to pay off a 7 month (but who’s counting) debt. While I was there I spied a couple glass bottles of Bubble Up. Bubble… Read More »A PHOTO JOURNAL – PAGE 116
Before we get into pictures from the Indianola Balloon Festival I want to point out that I have been tinkering with the way that the blog comes to the inbox of Photography 139 email subscribers. If you have a gmail email account, you should have noticed the change starting on… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 1
This is my final collection of RAGBRAI pictures from last year when RAGBRAI passed through Boone. Now that I’ve published last year’s RAGBRAI photos it is time to hit the backlog and publish pictures from last year’s balloon festival.
It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a… Read More »Available as Another Possibility
My favorite theme was a very popular theme. BLACK & WHITE had a plethora of submissions from such exotic places as New York City to Indianola to Mount Pleasant to Roland to Woodward to near Adel. I was expecting a submission from Canada, but I’m guessing that that person just… Read More »WPC – WEEK 202 – BLACK & WHITE
There aren’t many pictures in the folder 2009-04-11, so I’m publishing photos from the folder 2009-04-20. The pictures from the folder 2009-04-11 are from when Derrick and Jen moved into their new house. They moved about a month after I moved. They have since moved again. I have not. They… Read More »2009-04-11 & 2009-04-20
A week or so ago the largest steam engine in the world pulled into Boone and spent the night. I wasn’t able to get a lot of great pictures of it because of its location and my work schedule at the computer mine. However, I was able to get a… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 73
After parting ways with the Howards in Van Meter after lunch after Larry’s graveside service, I decided to just kind of meander back to Boone and do a little town sign hunting for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. We left Grover Flavors about 4 PM, which was considerably later than I… Read More »Town Sign Project – Vol. 10
As the 2019 RAGBRAI continues to wind its way across Iowa, now seems like a good time to publish more pictures from the 2018 backlog of when RAGBRAI passed through Boone.
Last Saturday was the annual Boone County Fair barbecue contest. Baby Got Rack decided to take a different tact this time. Rather than entering the pizza, we decided to enter something new. Meatloaf Cupcakes. This was a big risk just based on the fact that the pizza was a surefire… Read More »Baby Got Rack Takes the Boone County Fair
I thought for sure that this week would not be a double digit week, but it was! The 4th straight week! That makes me happy that so many of you found your ANGER, which I consider to be one of the hardest them of this set of 52. A note,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 201 – ANGER
Now that the Boone County Fair is winding down and my collection of Boone County Fair Photography Contest entries are bagged up and safely stowed in one of the now TWO trunks that archive my past photo contest entries, I can release the results to the general public that didn’t… Read More »Boone County Fair Photography Contest Results
The pictures from the folder 2009-04-09 hearken back to a time that I was panicked that the world’s best toaster pastry was being removed from the market. There was a brief period where my local grocery store wasn’t stocking Toast ‘Ems! I set about photographing Toast ‘Ems, so I could… Read More »2009-04-09
REMINDER that starting tomorrow, my 5 entries for the Boone County Fair should be on display. They usually put them out about noon. They will be displayed in the Community Building. Thanks to: Logan Kahler Jesse Howard Michelle Haupt Shannon Bardole-Foley Monica Henning For selecting the 5 entries. Special thanks… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 16
When I went on my birthday road trip with Jesse back in May, I used the trip to Decorah as a chance to do some sign hunting for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. This was the first time that I had hunted for signs this year. I thought I would have… Read More »Town Sign Project Vol. 9
As we get very near the beginning of another RAGBRAI, I need to get more of last year’s RAGBRAI journey through Boone. As I was looking through these photos, I realized how great it would have been to have Rodan139 back then to get some aerial images of the mass… Read More »RAGBRAI – VOLUME 2
Dipping back into the 2018 backlog today. There is a one room schoolhouse that has been restored and is occasionally open to the public northwest of Boone. One June day, when we were returning home from our post church meal, Teresa, Logan, Mom, and I stopped to check it out.… Read More »One is the Loneliest Number
SIGNS were a very popular theme. In fact, it was the third week in a row that we hit double digits for submissions. I have a feeling that this week’s theme wont’t be so popular. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about submission rates,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 200 – SIGNS