Last Friday when we left off, had left the Giant’s Causeway part of the Giant’s Causeway and were starting the trail to The Amphitheatre. This part was a fantastic workout! We definitely got our steps in on this day! And this wasn’t the last trail we would hit up. Here… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Amphitheatre Trail
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
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 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
AMERICA! 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, June 29, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: *1-Jason Baier – 2 weeks2-Sabas Hernandez – 2 weeks3-Monica Jennings – 2 weeks4-Johnathan Stensland –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 564 – AMERICA
This is the final collection of images from Day 1 of my trip to Ireland with Andy. It also includes one more filming location from the movie ONCE. Last Friday we left off we were admiring a busker and a couple of children that were dancing to their music. We… Read More »Ireland Day 1: Fair Play to Ya
It is the 1st day of July. Seems like a good time to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from June. I travelled a bit in June. Completely for leisure. And that felt pretty great. Here are the June Selfies: June 1 June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5… Read More »Selfie Project – June 2026
One of the bucket list restaurants on my list isn’t really a restaurant at all. It is an old gas station/cafe that used to sit along side the old Lincoln Highway. The Youngville Cafe. It went out of business in the 1960s, but is being preserved. To help maintain the… Read More »Tenderloining: Youngville Field Work
Last November I got together with Alexis and her family and shot some family photos. Here are some of my favorites from the photo shoot: As you know, my favorite kind of portraits are the candid ones!
When we left off last Friday we were wandering around George Street Arcade. We will begin there. Most of this collection will concentrate on street art that Andy and I found while walking back to Grafton Street to have our compromise supper at Captain America. Easily the worst meal of… Read More »Ireland Day 1: Street Art
I also setup a photobooth at the Henning 50th Anniversary Party. It wasn’t anything special. It was just a webcam, a television, a laptop, and a free photobooth program downloaded from the Microsoft store. The way it was setup, everything is horribly backlit, but in the Don Williams Shelter House,… Read More »Henning Party Photobooth
Last June I did some event photography for the Henning’s 50th Wedding Anniversary Party. It was a grand affair held out at the Don Williams Shelter House. Here are a few of my favorite pictures: It was a great event honoring great people and it was a great honor to… Read More »Henning 50th Wedding Anniversary Party
When I went on my annual Birthday Road Trip, Nader and I went up to the Orange City Tulip Festival. But while we were there, I cashed in on a chance to do some tenderloining. Orange City is the home of The Roadhouse. It is a restaurant of some reputation.… Read More »Tenderloining: Orange City Field Work
Last year the 3rd Annual Jay Janson Miniature Golf Invitational atrophied a bit. It was up to 4 competitors in 2024. But in 2025 it was down to just me and Jay. Which was about what it should have been. We went to some minigolf course that wasn’t even a… Read More »Jay Janson Invitational – 2025
Time for more pictures from Day 1 of my trip to Ireland. Day 1 we mostly hung around the Grafton Street area and I got to see some of the filming location of one of my all-time favorite movie: ONCE! In this collection is the 3rd location from the movie… Read More »Ireland Day 1: Not So Hard on the Fingers
Back on May 15, Nader and I hit up 515 Day in Ames to check out the annual Food Truck Showdown. I have to admit that at this point it was kind of slim pickings to find a food truck that I haven’t tried in this area. At least that… Read More »Food Truckin’: 515 Day Field Work