Last November Sony released a new Macro lens. You can bet dollars to Dutch Oven Bakery donuts that your boy pre-ordered that bad boy. Here are some specs of the new guy: Here are some of the first pictures I took with the new sweetness: I love it so! It… Read More »Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 GM OSS Macro
Time to share the rest of my Halloween pictures from last year. These are all from Halloween Parade or from downtown Boone. What might be apparent in the pictures, but maybe isn’t readily apparent, it was COLD! Not as cold as it was for the lighted parade last year, which… Read More »Halloween 2025 – II
If things have broken correctly, I am somewhere on the open road right now. Possibly Missouri or Kansas or Oklahoma or maybe even Texas. So I am nowhere near a computer and even if I was, I wouldn’t have the slightest inclination to stop and put together a post of… Read More »Week 568 Theme Reveal
A few Saturdays back Carla, Teresa, and I loaded up in the RAV4 and went to Clinton to do some troll hunting. On the way we stopped for breakfast at the Sunrise Café in Le Grand, Iowa. We decided to stop there because it was on a list of “8… Read More »Breakfast Club: Le Grand Field Work
Can you believe that this is the 6,000th entry in the blog known as “An Artist’s Notebook”? Every 250 posts or so I like to take a moment to reflect on where this post has been and post a lot of meaningless stats. As always on these posts, I like… Read More »Post 6,000
Last Friday we left off at the beginning of the actual Giant’s Causeway. It dawns on me that maybe people don’t know the story about the Giant’s Causeway. Why is a collection of the most unique looking rocks extending into the Atlantic Ocean called the Giant’s Causeway? Don’t worry I’ll… Read More »Ireland Day 2: More Giant’s Causeway
Thursdays are for flowers. This Thursday’s flowertography session in the rest of the daisy pictures I took for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme CONTRAST. Here are the remains: Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve a flower know for not smelling so good.
Last Wednesday I shared half the ANIMALS alternate images I took last November on a swing through McHose Park, Big Creek State Park, Jester Park, Saylorville Lake, and Ledges State Park. This collection will include the images that I took at Jester Park and at the Saylorville Spillway. The first… Read More »Isn’t it Something?
I took more Halloween related pictures than normal last year. In addition to the Trunk-or-Treat pictures I shared last Tuesday, I also took pictures of the pumpkins painted by the Youth Group, the trick-or-treaters that came to my house, and pictures at Boone’s first ever Halloween Parade. Here is the… Read More »Halloween 2025 – I
WARNING: NEXT MONDAY I WILL HOPEFULLY BE ON THE OPEN ROAD. POSSIBLY IN OKLAHOMA. POSSIBLY IN TEXAS. POSSIBLY IN KANSAS. IT IS HARD TO SAY. SO DON’T EXPECT ANY KIND OF REMINDER. YOU WILL HAVE TO BE YOUR OWN DOG. I WILL BE ON VACATION. IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHAT… Read More »WPC – WEEK 566 – COMMUNICATION
A couple weeks back I saw that a food truck that I hadn’t eaten at was going to be setting up show in McHose Park. I decided to make that my supper plans and headed out there for a little din-din. The food truck was the Wobbly Pin based out… Read More »Burgertime: McHose Park Field Work
Time for another collection of images I took on the Saturday of Pufferbilly Days last year. The last collection was all parade pictures. So is this collection. I still have one more collection of images left to share from the Saturday of Pufferbilly Days.
Last Friday we left off with Andy and I arriving at the Giant’s Causeway and working our way down the trail to the Giant’s Causeway. You might notice that you won’t see Andy in many of these pictures. You might wonder why? Andy is a great travel companion for a… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Giant’s Causeway
Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography collection took place in my basement. These images were taken for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme of CONTRAST. These pictures are good me thinks. Some of them might even be great, but there can only be one Immortal, there can be only one… Read More »No One’s Gonna Love You
Back in November I did a little bit of a loop around some central Iowa parks looking for animals to photograph for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme ANIMALS. I took Bokeh to the dog park. But after taking her home I went to Big Creek State Park, Jester Park,… Read More »Trust in Me and Fall as Well
Last year the Boone First United Methodist Church took place in the annual Trunk-or-Treat festivity. It is a pretty big deal in Boone. Thousands and thousands kids pour into Boone’s downtown area and get so much candy. The lines are so long it take over an hour to make the… Read More »Trunk-or-Treat 2025
CIRCLE! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, July 6, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Brandon Kahler – 1 week2-Jason Baier – 3 weeks3-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks4-Monica Jennings –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 565 – CIRCLE
After church a few weeks ago I took Brandon out for lunch for assisting with getting Morris, my 4 foot concrete alligator in place in my front yard. We went to Daisy’s Dog House in Ames. Logan, Dahlia, Jonah, and Andy all came along as well. Here are some cell… Read More »Hot Dog! Ames Field Work
Time to start sharing the rest of the pictures from Pufferbilly Days last year that aren’t related to the Photo Contest or Boone First United Methodist Church. The pictures in this collection are from the Pufferbilly Days Parade: Still plenty of Pufferbilly Days pictures left to share.
On Day 2 in Ireland we got up bright and early and hit the road for Northern Ireland. It was about a 3 hour drive from Dublin to our first stop: The Giant’s Causeway. There were a handful of must see things for me on our trip. The Giant’s Causeway… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Road to Giant’s Causeway
Last Thursday was the last collection of flower images from 2025. This is the first collection of images from 2026. These images are alternative images I took for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme of CONTRAST. Here are this Thursday’s flowertography images: Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve more CONTRAST alternates.