A few weeks back I cruised around Floyd County to harvest their town signs. It was a good trip. Here are some facts about Floyd County: + Population is 15,713. Making it the 49th most populous county in Iowa. Behind Clay County and above Page County. + The largest town… Read More »Town Sign Project: Floyd County
It has been 5,795 days since August 9, 2006. 5,795 days since I first took keyboard in hand and started the blog portion of the Photography 139 website. The portion I pompously named “An Artist’s Notebook”. The part I started with the words: So here is the first journal entry.… Read More »Four Thousand Five Hundred
I want to start this post with the text of a text that Joe sent me last week. If I haven’t said, the WPC really helps me be present and look at the world a little differently. Thanks for facilitating! If there was a mission statement for THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »WPC – 353 – SERVICE
This is the final collection of pictures from the 2021 Baugher Family Photo Shoot. All of these pictures are of Anela and one could argue there are too many of them, but when there is magic between the photographer and the model, is it possible for there to be too… Read More »The Baughers 2021 – Volume 4
Back in late January I made a trip out to Jackson County to harvest the balance of their town signs. Here are some of the auxiliary images I took on that trip: Andrew Springbrook Bellevue Saint Donatus There is one more collection of auxiliary images left to share from this… Read More »Jackson County Aux – Volume 1
In this post I am going to share pictures I took with the A7II on Days 3 and 6 of my work trip to Miami Beach. I did not crack out the camera at all on Day 4. On Day 5, I actually got away for a bit and took… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 3 and Day 6 – A7II
About a month ago I finally started buying flowers for my flower pots and urns. I took a few pictures then. But apparently only pictures of a dahlia, some petunias, and a marigold. I’ve probably spent like $200 on flowers this year. So far. I’m terribly far behind on yardwork,… Read More »Tragedy
Time to share another collection of auxiliary images I took while cruising around Buena Vista and Palo Alto County harvesting their town signs: Sioux Rapids Linn Grove Mallard Ayrshire Emmetsburg (I think) The next time we hit the open road for auxiliary images from a TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip,… Read More »Buena Vista and Palo Alto Aux – Vol. 2
A few weeks back I headed up to Mitchell County to harvest their town signs. It was a good trip and I really enjoyed my brief time in Mitchell County. Here are some facts about Mitchell County: + Population is 10,558 making it the 70th most populous county in Iowa.… Read More »Town Sign Project: Mitchell County
A quick housekeeping note: for the last couple of months I haven’t been able to email people with a Gmail account. If you have written me and I haven’t written back, I have tried, just Gmail security has been dumb. However, on Friday, I believe I finally got all the… Read More »WPC – WEEK 352 – CHILDREN
A few weeks back I got together with Jayton again to take some more senior pictures. Here is the first collection of my favorites from that photo shoot: Next Formal Portrait Sunday I will share a final collection of pictures from the Baugher Family Shoot.
Back at the end of last year I cruised around the counties of Buena Vista and Palo Alto counties harvesting their town signs. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images I took on this trip: I still have one more collection of auxiliary images to share from this trip… Read More »Buena Vista and Palo Alto Aux – Vol. 1
On Day 2 of my trip to Miami Beach for the Computer Mine I had a little bit of free time in the evening to do a little street photography in the blocks around our hotel. One of the first things I learned was it would take 10 minutes (at… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 2 – A7II
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson Back in early may I bought some geranium hanging flower baskets for my front yard. Here are some pictures I took of the geraniums. I think hanging geranium flower baskets in my front yard is going to become traditional. I like… Read More »So Does Hope – 2022
Back in December I met a fairly short trip (by TOWN SIGN PROJECT standards) to Iowa County to harvest their town signs. This is a collection of the auxiliary images I took while there, but there are a bunch at the beginning from Newton. Next time we hit the open… Read More »Iowa County Auxiliary Images
A few weeks back that I headed up Emmet County to harvest their town signs. It is a small county with only 6 incorporated towns. Here are some facts about Emmet County: + Population is 9,322 making it the 79th most populous county in Iowa. Below Clarke County and above… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: EMMET COUNTY
FLOWER has proven to be a pretty popular theme. I’m always not sure how these things will go because I know more than a few people that just absolutely HATE flower photography or as my forthcoming book will be called, flowertography. Not only do they HATE flower pictures, they in… Read More »WPC – WEEK 351 – FLOWER
I thought this Sunday I would get back to Formal Portrait Sundays, but today didn’t unfold how I planned at all. Not even a little bit. Instead, I’m going to share some pictures I took with the real camera on the first day of my work trip to Miami Beach.… Read More »Miami Beach – Day 1 – A7II
A few weeks back I met up with Jen and the rest of the Gorshes (sans Derrick) to watch Evie dance at the Renaissance Fair. I took a few pictures of the event. Here are some of my favorites. At some point, I’ll share the rest of the pictures from… Read More »Celtic Dancing Fair
On Tuesday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. It was month of random prompts and I think for the most part, there is some good work mixed in with mediocre work. The kind of thing you get with a Photo A Day Challenge.… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – May 2022
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