Small people talk about other people. Average people talk about things. Great people talk about ideas. When I first began my sentence with the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire, there was a ludicrous sign posted in the crew room that had this observation written on it. I’m not… Read More »The Dumbest Thing Shannon Bardole has Ever Done
A couple weekends ago I made a trip to State Center with Teresa and Mom so I could photograph their rose garden. As is frequently the case, they got bored and left me behind so they could go to a gas station. When they came back they told me that… Read More »Flame On
Loneliness is Underrated This is a bit unusual. Up until this week I have posted the Personal Photo Project of the Week in the order that the project was attempted. This picture of Willy was actually slated for a June 11th publishing, but I decided to slide it up a… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 20
I broke Day 9 into two post because of the large amount of pictures, if you recall. You are about to see the rest of those pictures. After all the flowers were planted, we all went our separate ways to wash up. Then the family reunited at the Stensland home… Read More »Vacation Day 9B – Mother’s Day Early
I’m going to split my final day of vacation into two posts due to what could be a large amount of photos. After church on Sunday I went with my Mom to Northwest Greenhouse to get new flowers for the yard. I prefer perennials because I don’t really want to… Read More »Vacation Day 9A – Some Color
I don’t recall if I woke up in my own bed or on my own couch on Thursday morning, but I definitely slept good and solid after getting home close to midnight the previous night. I think that I was able to fall asleep rather quickly after the 3.5 hour… Read More »Vacation Day 6 – Campus
I was set on going back to the Cyclone State on Tuesday night after visiting Faust on his day off, but Bethany and Becca requested that I stay one more night. I had no plans for Wednesday (Sara’s attempt to convince me to go to Iowa City failed since she… Read More »Vacation Day 4 – Cotton Candy
I was contacted a few weeks back by my old friend Kristine Langill about doing a little photography for a benefit she was helping run. The event was a Battle of the Bands, plus a date auction and a silent auction. A few pictures from the event: Strong Like Bear… Read More »A Benefit
When me and my chums were in high school, we would spend a few choice nights of the Spring, Summer and Fall in my Mom’s backyard playing Homerun Derby with a big red bat and a plastic baseball. Homerun Derby was a double elimination tournament that consisted of a series… Read More »Home Run Derby: The Next Generation
Here are a few extra, bonus images from the Lone Wolf photo shoot with Sara. Sara was full of creative ideas on this night and she helped improvise when I realized that I had left a key part of my tripod at home, making the tripod essentially useless and making… Read More »Lone Wolf Extras
On Carrie’s birthday she requested that I take a few pictures of the Baier clan. Here are my favorite pictures from that day. But before we got too deep into these pictures I need to point out a couple of things. First, the addition of these pictures to the Friends… Read More »The Baiers
On Sunday I descended into the depths of Missouri and Kansas on Sunday to watch Alexis compete in competitive cheerleading. I had spoken with our Associate Pastor Andrea about good barbecue joints in Kansas City and she recommended Jack Stack for ribs and Oklahoma Joe’s for sandwiches. I looked into… Read More »Be Aggressive!
I don’t know if there is much reason to dwell on the Iowa-Iowa State game. I think the only positives to come out of the game is that if you are going to lose, play your absolutely worst game that you can possibly imagine. Plus, Iowa is a quarterback away… Read More »The Iowa Hawkeyes
I’ve taken the time to post some pictures from the Iowa State-North Dakota State in the Iowa State Cyclones Football – 2009 Album. It was a night game, so regrettably there are only a few images, but these are some of my favorites. Me with my Aunt Barbara, Cousin Mary… Read More »North Dakota State
Here are a few pictures from another mini-adventure. I will not answer questions about this trip, (it was a spiritual quest and that is all you need to know) but I will let leak the following tidbits: Faust really hates nature. Perhaps even more than Bill fears nature. I was… Read More »Vacation Stuff – Two
This past weekend was the Pufferbilly Days photo contest. I had 6 different people pick the 6 different entries this year. The first person to pick was Sara Junck. She picked the picture below: “Cozy Combination” Sara actually took slightly over the 24 hour deadline. She waffled back and forth… Read More »Sara Junck
Today is the birthday of some very special people! Happy Birthday to all of them! Derrick Gorshe For more pictures of Derrick: Click on Me Jill Gorshe And of course… My Nephew Logan For more pictures of Logan: Click on Me
Friday Night Bonne Finken played Ames on the Half Shell. Here are a couple of images. For about 50 more images, click on the link below: Bonne Finken This Friday the band will be Kountertop.
I had a pretty great 4th of July! I woke up in the morning and headed to Ames at about 9 am. I met Shannon and her cousin Matthew for a pretty sweet breakfast of biscuits and gravy that Shannon made. Then I headed over to Jen and Derrick’s to… Read More »4th of July