First of all, Happy Halloween! After a 1 year hiatus, I’ll be able to handout candy to trick-or-treaters. Which also means, I will be able to replenish the candy bar selection in the Union Street Theater. It has gotten pretty bad, since I didn’t buy any candy last year. I… Read More »Celestial Dome
From the 2018 backlog. I took these flower pictures in September of last year. It seems a crime that it took me over 12 months to publish them. However, if I ever get caught up on my backlog, I plan on keeping this blog more of an up to date… Read More »Believe in Tomorrow
On Monday night, I choked when I had a chance to show a person that has a real good chance to be the next President of the United States a picture of Naima. We both have irresistible golden retrievers and we had a moment there. However, Naima is supposed to… Read More »Choked
Hitting up the 2018 backlog again. This is a collection of photos I took while I was playing with the panorama setting on the trusty old 77ii. Most of them were taken out a Dickcissel Park. This was a trip with Naima that involved her running off some pheasants. I… Read More »Subtly Dissolves
Another day. Another good time to hit up that 2018 backlog. These images were captured in July. They were taken in my back yard. Last year I had a hollyhock renaissance. That didn’t translate to a bumper crop of hollyhocks this year, but I boldly predict a ton of hollyhocks… Read More »Spoken without a Sound
Back to the 2018 backlog. This is a collection of pictures I took on a day I went down to Ledges to photograph some flooding. Ledges floods so frequently these days that I rarely even bother to go photograph it. In fact, I didn’t check out Ledges flooding at all… Read More »By Ignorant Rulers
Another Pufferbilly Days has drawn to a close. Seems like a fitting time to share the pictures that my loyal fans selected for me to enter into the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest and furthermore, if any of those pictures received any form of love. Here are my entries: Displayed –… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Results
RED was another extremely popular theme. In fact, I daresay that these last few weeks have been the most successful weeks in the history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:… Read More »WPC – WEEK 206 – RED
I recently went over to my Grandma’s house with my Mom to take a picture for Page 117 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. I don’t usually explain what the directions for the page before I unleash the picture on the world, but I’m going to explain the theme first this… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 117
This is the final collection of pictures from my trip to the Indianola Balloon Festival in 2018. I didn’t make an appearance at the Balloon Festival in 2019, so I’m sure I’ll have to make an appearance in 2020. In fact, I’d like to actually take a balloon ride in… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 3
Much to the chagrin of floraphobes like Russell Kennerly, FLOWER proved to be an exceedingly popular theme. Possible the most submissions ever for one theme in the 6 year history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. There is even a first time submission from Elizabeth. At the Computer Mine there is… Read More »WPC – WEEK 205 – FLOWER
Reminder, there are 6 days left to vote for the pictures I enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If voting for 6 photos at one time is too much for you, you can vote for my Photoshop entry below: If you are ready to vote in all 6 polls,… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 2
I made a recent stop at Boone’s local old timey ice cream shop for a malt and to pick up a couple glass bottles of Pepsi to pay off a 7 month (but who’s counting) debt. While I was there I spied a couple glass bottles of Bubble Up. Bubble… Read More »A PHOTO JOURNAL – PAGE 116
Before we get into pictures from the Indianola Balloon Festival I want to point out that I have been tinkering with the way that the blog comes to the inbox of Photography 139 email subscribers. If you have a gmail email account, you should have noticed the change starting on… Read More »Indianola Balloon Festival – Volume 1
It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a… Read More »Available as Another Possibility
The pictures from the folder 2009-04-09 hearken back to a time that I was panicked that the world’s best toaster pastry was being removed from the market. There was a brief period where my local grocery store wasn’t stocking Toast ‘Ems! I set about photographing Toast ‘Ems, so I could… Read More »2009-04-09
Ever since the first time I flipped through THE PHOTO JOURNAL and landed on Page 109, I knew exactly where I wanted to take that picture. I flipped flopped on what I wanted the subject to be, but I never waiver on the setting. It wasn’t until a week or… Read More »A Photo Journal – Page 109
Last Saturday when I decided to go see Bernie Sanders, I knew it would be the perfect opportunity to knock off Page 112 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Bernie Sanders was speaking at the Sun Room at the Memorial Union at noon, which gave me the perfect opportunity to get… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 112
A couple weekends back up I went to Minnesota to check out the Final Four festivities and check-in with a few people I hadn’t seen for a long time. On Sunday morning I hit a donut shop with Becca and Shawn. Then I went to Minnehaha Falls to kill sometime… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 90
The weather last week was all over the place in Central Iowa. Beautiful one day. Windy enough to blow down one side of the Burger King garbage corral the next. Then beautiful again. Then a few snow flurries the next. Then beautiful again. While the weather was all over the… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 187 – FAVORITE COLOR
Last Saturday I continued on my goal to try to finish THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT as Joe agreed to pose for Page 82. Before you ask, yes, Joe legitimately think the world is flat. Not only does he believe that the world is flat, he is an evangelical for the… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 82