Not a ton of submissions for CITY and this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I worry that many of my followers are country bumpkins that fell off the turnip truck before they could make it to a big city like say… Boone, Iowa. Despite the lack of submissions, they do range… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 138 – CITY
Every day is a good day to start a post with a quote from Malcolm X. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. I start with this quote because yesterday, Logan graduated from the finest university in all the… Read More »Tomorrow Belongs to the People Who Prepare for it Today
The following images (and this collection is all over the place) came from the folder 04-30-08: Karen One of the bitter parts of this collection is that Karen has passed away since this picture was taken. Many of these pictures were taken during Olivia’s Stitching Time. A sewing circle that… Read More »04-30-08
Several weeks back I headed up to Minnesota to celebrate Nora’s 2nd birthday. Took a few photos. Thought I’d share a few photos: Nora is so impressed with my gift! She is so cute! I can hardly wait until Christmas when I can giver her more books that don’t excite… Read More »Birthday!!!
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is CITY: CITY A CITY picture is any picture of a CITY, like a cityscape or that is taken in a CITY. Happy photo harvesting!
In case you don’t follow politics closely, one of the leaders of the March for Our Lives Movement is Emma Gonzalez. She is a survivor of the Parkland shooting in February. She has a very short haircut. Her sexual orientation is none of our business. You may remember her from… Read More »Skinhead Lesbian for Gun Control
On Saturday I decided to look for Town Signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT in the Story County area. Here is what I was able to track down: Roland, Iowa McCallsburg, Iowa Zearing, Iowa St. Anthony, Iowa Bangor, Iowa Clemons, Iowa State Center, Iowa Colo, Iowa Collins, Iowa Maxwell, Iowa… Read More »The Town Sign Project Vol. 6
The world wasn’t ready for these ARCHITECTURE pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer… I took all of these photos while I was out looking for town signs. They range from Roland to Cambridge. You’re welcome… Read More »I Wreck these Stages, Real Talk, Better Give Me Space ‘Cause I Am Chasing
A good week of submissions for ARCHITECTURE. I have no doubt that my outhouse picture inspired many a person to submit this week. This week, the Photography 139 Empire extended as far east as Chicago. As far north as Roland, Iowa. As far west as the Des Moines Airport. As… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 137 – ARCHITECTURE
Time to hit up the back log. These pictures are from Russell, Jesse, and I’s trip to Memphis to watch Iowa State stomp the Memphis Tigers in the Liberty Bowl. I am a fan of Elvis. I get that from my Mom. From her I grew up listening to Elvis… Read More »Graceland
The following images are from the folders 04-22-08, 04-25-08, and 04-26-08: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery I was able to restore these historic An Artist’s Notebook entries to their original glory: LITTLE WHITE LYE PRODUCT ENDORSEMENT PART 3 AMES JAYCEES SANDBOX FILL The soap pictures were… Read More »04-22-08, 04-25-08, 04-26-08
Since the weather outside has been turning less frightful, I’ve been trying to take Naima on a walk or at least an adventure about every day. At last week’s Friday Night Supper Club, I nearly nodded off after consume massive amounts of Casey’s Taco and Hot Sausage pizza, while watching… Read More »No! Not Bird Defecation AND Excretion!
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is ARCHITECTURE: ARCHITECTURE An ARCHITECTURE photo is a photo of a building or a part of a building. That is basically all there is to it. As many of you may know (and by many I mean very few) I… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – ARCHITECTURE
This is one of probably 2 entries for An Artist’s Notebook about my Saturday morning last. This is about the later part of my morning, but you must know a little bit about the early morning to understand how this strange turn of events happened. The earliest part of my… Read More »Miller Estate Auction
On Friday and Saturday of last week I did a little bit of Town Sign harvesting. The full story will follow the new signs, but I’ll just say that I on both trips I made some (by my standards) pretty cool discoveries. Elkhart, Iowa Huxley, Iowa Cooper, Iowa Jamaica, Iowa… Read More »The Town Sign Project: Vol 5
The world wasn’t ready for these GOVERNMENT pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer. Here are GOVERNMENT alternates: If you are wondering why the bird photos are considered GOVERNMENT, it is because those pictures were taken… Read More »You Ain’t Never Been in My Book and I Got a Problem with It, Why? ‘Cause You Acting Like You Read My Pages!
After a couple big weeks of participation, this week took a nosedive. Big time. Apparently not many people we open to the wide world of GOVERNMENT photography. That is okay, maybe better luck this week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 136 – GOVERNMENT
Last Sunday the Methodist Men had our annual Chicken Noodles Brunch. I took a few photos of the event: You may recall that the weather last Sunday was less than idyllic. Loads of snow dropped on the metropolitan Boone area and the temperatures were cold as well. The turnout for… Read More »Cluck Cluck Noodles
The following images are from the folder 04-19-08: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following classic An Artist’s Notebook entries to their original glory: LITTLE WHITE LYE BONUS SPRING GAME If you want to check out more pictures from Iowa… Read More »04-19-08
On Good Friday I descended upon downtown Des Moines to take a picture for Page 105 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Take a photograph that could only be taken today, not yesterday or tomorrow. I took off from the Computer Mine early on Good Friday and went to Des Moines… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 105
A friendly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is GOVERNMENT: GOVERNMENT A GOVERNMENT photo is any photo that relates to either an agent of the GOVERNMENT, a building of the GOVERNMENT, or a product of the GOVERNMENT. Get off the couch and get your camera in your hands.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – GOVERNMENT