The folder 2010-08-23 is absolutely stuffed to the gills. There are so many images in there I almost considered breaking it up into a couple posts, but decided against it. There are pictures in there from a trip to the Iowa State Fair and pictures of Jen and Derrick when… Read More »2010-08-23
This is a collection of some more of the first pictures I took with the Tamron wide angle lens. some are at the courthouse. Some around the high bridges. Some around the Kate Shelley Museum: I do love that wide angle zoom lens! +++++++ This is your reminder that this… Read More »Wide Angling
It has been over 2 months since I got back to this photo shoot with the Stenslands at the end of 2020. It was a real blessing to have gotten so many of these pictures taken with Mom. She originally was just tagging along and then she went home and… Read More »The Stenslands 2020 – Beta
Back in February I cruised around Hardin County harvesting town sign photos. This was a solo trip. These are some of the non-town sign pictures I took on the trip. New Providence – This round gym was recently featured in a movie. Gifford Union Whitten Eldora Steamboat Rock Ackley I… Read More »Hardin County Auxiliary Images
This is the third and final batch of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85. These (most of them) pictures were taken at the sculpture garden in downtown Des Moines. I still might get into the technical details of the Lensbaby Velvet 85 some day, but today… Read More »Even More of that Velvet 85
There was a decent amount of submissions for FACE this week. Apparently lots of you know a FACE or two that you like. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Kim Barker Kim Barker Kio Dettman… Read More »WPC – WEEK 295 – FACE
There aren’t many images in the folders 2010-08-13 and 2010-08-14 so I decided to combine them with the folder 2010-08-16 that contains many pictures from a trip I took to the Iowa State Fair. There are also pictures of Jesse and two of his progeny and of a moonflower. By… Read More »2010-08-13, 2010-08-14, & 2010-08-16
Here is another small collection of some of the first images I took with the Lensbaby Velvet 85 back in January: I’m still going to go into some detail about what makes the Lensbaby Velvet 85 such a special unique lens at some point. Just not today. +++++++ This is… Read More »More of that Velvet 85
The third new lens I purchased at the beginning of the year was a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Art Lens. I had a 50mm macro lens, but I needed a longer macro lens. Here are the first pictures I took with it: I might go into some technical… Read More »Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Art Lens
At the moment of the publishing of this journal entry, my Covid vaccine will be fully marinated. It will have been two weeks since my second shot. While life won’t return to normal exactly, I look forward to at least, maybe eating in a restaurant, or maybe having a movie… Read More »Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 Di III RXD Lens
I should point out that I messed up the coding in yesterday’s post. You should go to that post again to see the corrections in the code that allow you to see Kim’s and Shannon’s submissions. My Christmas present to my self was a Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 lens. I… Read More »Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8
There was a decent amount of submissions for TRAVEL. It looks like several people left their house this weekend and had TRAVEL adventures. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Elizabeth Nordeen Jodie Cue… Read More »WPC – WEEK 294 – TRAVEL
The pictures in the folder are from when the Creek formerly known as Squaw flooded Duff Avenue in the August of 2010. I’m not being sarcastic, I just know that they recently changed the name of Squaw Creek, I just have no clue what they changed it to. Ioway maybe?… Read More »2010-08-11
So I’ve made a decision about THE SELFIE PROJECT. I’ve decided to start it backup tomorrow. Saturday, May 1. I did a few selfies during the month of April. They weren’t for this suspended project, per se, but I threw them in that gallery and I will share them here,… Read More »Selfie Project – April
Back in early March, I was in Des Moines, so I wandered around Graffiti Alley and took some pictures. I’m sure I’ll be back there to photograph it again at some point in the future.
Union County is the last county of I completed with my Mom. We went through a few counties on that road trip, so there are still a couple individual town signs from that trip to share, but Union County is the final county that we took to completion. I had… Read More »Town Sign Project: Union County
Here is the third installment of pictures I took of Alexis when she was pregnant with Anela. Although, the grand majority of these pictures are of Kanoa sporting his big brother shirt! I still have one more collection of these photos to share.
There was a decent amount of submissions for HANDS. Including, what I believe to be the first ever submission by Amy Peterson. Very excited to have Amy as a future contributor and I expect big things from here in the future. But you didn’t come here to listen to me… Read More »WPC – WEEK 293 – HANDS
The folders 2010-08-06 & 2010-08-09 are pretty small, so I combined them into one post. Half of them are pictures of a hibiscus. The other half are pictures of butterflies. Then there is one random picture of my feet. On a personal note, I really miss those shoes. Actually I… Read More »2010-08-06 & 2010-08-09
Here is the final collection of images from the 2002 photo shoot with the Degeneffe Boys: I look forward to the 2021 Degeneffe Boys Photo Shoot. +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is HANDS: HANDS A HANDS image is pretty simple. It is… Read More »Austin & Porter 2020 C
This set of Town Sign Pictures is from the last town sign harvesting road trip I went on with my Mom. We went through a couple counties on that Saturday. The first one was Madison County: Here are some facts about Madison County: + The population is 15,679. + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Madison County