Time to reveal the May image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. MAY – 2026 Technical Details The subject of the May image is a spider sculpture in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines. This is one of those pictures that when I distributed the calendars I learned that… Read More »Selfie Project – December 2025
Time to reveal the Mach image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. MARCH – 2026 Technical Details This picture is the ocean view looking back from the ocean view of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. If I was forced to pick my favorite part of the Ireland trip, I… Read More »State Fairin’: Trip 1
Here we are. Time to share all the pictures I considered for the 2025 Calendar but did not make the cut for one reason or another. Could be that I decided it wasn’t good enough. Or because a similar picture was chosen over it to be placed in the calendar.… Read More »I Wanna Have Control
Time to reveal the December image of the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: DECEMBER TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7 IV LENS: Sony 50mm f/2.8 Macro APERTURE: f/8 SHUTTER: 1/2000 ISO: 100 DATE: April 13, 2024 This picture of a bird soaring through the sky was taken at the Last Chance Cemetery… Read More »WPC – WEEK 487 – MOTION
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day! I forgot to mention this last Monday cause it had slipped my RADAR. The Computer Mine doesn’t care about civil rights all that much, so while government employees, schools, and bankers get the day off, I’ll be working it to the bone all… Read More »WPC – WEEK 435 – UGLY
I love the songs I hated when I was young Because they take me back where I come from When every broken heart seemed like the end When everyone was someone different then But I can’t be alone in a crowded room Where my thoughts, they run like water down… Read More »Harder to Forgive
I haven’t seen my father in some time But his face is always staring back at me His heavy hands hang at the ends of my arms And my colors change like the sea But I don’t worry much about time lost I’m not gunning for the dreams I couldn’t… Read More »Most of All
Time for a second collection of images from the Color the Wind Festival in Clear Lake that I attended with Teresa. Despite the cold it was a pretty amazing experience. There is a fair chance I will go back again this year. See what new crazy and amazing kites people… Read More »Color the Wind – Two
WARNING! NEXT MONDAY I WILL BE ON THE ROAD, SO NEXT WEEK’S POST WILL PUBLISH LATE AND THERE MIGHT NOT BE ANY REMINDERS. PLAN ACCORDINGLY! I need to start this post by wishing Russ a happy birthday. Happy birthday Russ! I hope you have lots of visitors today! +++++++ I… Read More »WPC – WEEK 413 – NEGATIVE
SELF-PORTRAIT! Maybe not the most artistic theme, but on the other hand, it is a chance for some of you to introduce yourself to the rest of you. But did a bunch of people do that? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on… Read More »WPC – WEEK 412 – SELF-PORTRAIT
Day 2 in Chicago was the first day where I actually had to work. Kim was setting up things at the convention center in the morning and let us know when to head over to do our thing. Tony, Lowell, and I got breakfast at the hotel and then walked… Read More »The Windy City: Day 2A
Found myself today I took my cross up and walked away With amazing grace and an open eye Even though I’m born to lose my way Tomorrow comes on a hurricane And the weight of the world’s been on your mind No-one sees it coming And no-one walks when they… Read More »In the Morrow
I might normally start today with a picture celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day. But I don’t really celebrate. I’ll be working for the man with my nose to the grindstone, swinging my computer mine pick away. If I’m lucky, I might be able to get a Reuben. The West Street Deli… Read More »Viva Las Vegas: Day 1B
Today I reveal the March image for the 2023 Photography Calendar. March I took this picture of this American Gothic barn near Mount Vernon, Iowa on a TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip with Michelle on November 14, 2021. Here is a picture of us standing in front of it: Here… Read More »Caroline
Today I’m going to share a collection of images that I took for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme BLACK & WHITE, but they didn’t make the cut. As you know, BLACK & WHITE is my first love in photography and therefore will always be a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »I Wore Makeup When We Dated
This is the third and final collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Appanoose County. Here is the final collection: Centerville Little Flock Chapel Mystic Rathbun Lake Rathbun – Some of these future edits are kinda sarcastic edits. Photoshop editing jokes, everybody gets those, right?… Read More »Appanoose County Aux – Vol. 3
Today is a monumental day. It is the last of our Saturday walks down memory lane. With this last collection of images, I was able to fix all the blogs that had missing pictures due to my constant changing of image gallery hosts. The last entry to be fixed was… Read More »Memory Lane Denouement
The grand majority of the pictures in the folders 2011-06-13, 2011-06-14, and 2011-06-17 are from a trip to Kalona to eat an authentic Amish meal with Funk, Sara, and Cousin Amy. This was before Funk became a total badass and started spending her free time climbing mountains in Peru. There… Read More »2011-06-13, 2011-06-14, and 2011-06-17
The pictures in the folder 2011-06-08 are from a time I went with my Mom over to my Grandma’s house to photograph some of her flowers. She always had beautiful flowers. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s… Read More »2011-06-08
Several months back I cruised around Kossuth and Winnebago County harvesting their town signs. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images I took on this trip. Most are from the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend. Many more are from near the Kossuth County Freedom Rock in Whittemore.… Read More »Kossuth and Winnebago County Auxiliary Images
I don’t usually run THE SELFIE PROJECT in back to back years, but since I took a break from it for a bit in 2021, I decided to make an exception and bring it back in 2022. Before getting into my favorite images from January of 2022, I want to… Read More »Selfie Project – January 2022