Here it is. The final collection of photos from everybody’s favorite Boone High Graduate, Saydie Howard! I’m not going to quote any canned advice. Saydie is a wise person. She will make good decisions and have a successful life. I have no doubt. Here are the remaining Saydie pictures: While… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Iota
Here is your reminder that you should get up on your FEET and take your WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE PHOTO, the theme this week is FEET: FEET! A reminder that a FEET picture is any photo that involves FEET! Happy photo harvesting! +++++++ A few weeks back I got together with… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 115
It is Sunday. It is 8 PM. It is time to check in with everybody’s favorite high school graduate… SAYDIE!!! Here is some more free advice for Saydie on how to live her life: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Theta
I knew that HUMOR was going to be a hard theme. As I write this, it would seem that many people struggled to find HUMOR in their everyday lives. I would have some commentary on that, but I’ll spare you at this time. As I am writing this, I am… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 148 – HUMOR
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers It is Sunday. It is 8 PM. It is time to check in with everybody’s favorite 2017 high school graduate… SAYDIE!!! I don’t have much more to add at this… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Eta
Happy Friday the 13th! You know what is funny about today? Nothing. Except for your reminder of this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. HUMOR! HUMOR! HUMOR! What is a HUMOR photo? It is a photo of something that is funny or of somebody reacting to something that is funny. Happy photo… Read More »I’ve Invested a lot of Me Inside these Lines, I’m Just Protecting ‘Em
HANDS was a popular theme! I’ll mark that down and make sure it isn’t in the next set of 52. Oh, you don’t like that? Then you better get to suggesting themes for the next 52. The way to do that is in the “Comments” section of this here blog.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 147 – HANDS
It is Sunday, so it is time to check in with everybody’s favorite Boone High graduate Saydie! Time for some more great advice on Saydie’s next adventure, college life! An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -Ben Franklin After this, are more than halfway done with Saydie’s Senior… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Zeta
Reminder, tonight at midnight is the deadline to vote on what pictures I enter at the Boone County Fair Photo Contest. Click on the link below to vote: If the website isn’t working for you, email/text me your votes. BOONE COUNTY FAIR PHOTO CONTEST ENTRY SELECTION You must have a… Read More »The 9 Emotions Project – Bethany
Reminder, you have until next Tuesday at midnight to vote on what pictures I enter at the Boone County Fair Photo Contest. Click on the link below to vote: BOONE COUNTY FAIR PHOTO CONTEST ENTRY SELECTION You must have a Facebook account or a Google+ account to vote. You vote… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Epsilon
Time again to check in with everybody’s favorite 2018 high school graduate, Saydie! I came across this quote from Alice Walker for graduates: Be compassionate to everyone. Don’t just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you, see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Delta
Time to check back in with my favorite 2018 high school graduate Saydie. Thought I would start with more of my favorite bits of wisdom given at commencement speech: Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Gamma
It is time for lap 2 in the Congratulations Saydie marathon. But before we get into the photo bonanza, I want to take a small quick time to take umbrage with one of the responses I received to the last batch of Saydie images. They pulled out the part of… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Beta
I’d just like to wish a full and hearty congratulations to all the Class of 2018 on their recent accomplishment of graduating from high school. I obviously don’t have any wise words about their future, but I can Google and find somebody that something wise once with the best of… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Alpha
More pictures of my brief trip through the Badlands with my Mom: More pictures from the Badlands in the coming days!
There was a healthy amount of MUSIC submissions for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. That is, MUSIC to my eyes. But you didn’t com here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Brooke Milligan Andy Sharp Kim Barker Christopher D. Bennett… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 139 – MUSIC
Every day is a good day to start a post with a quote from Malcolm X. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. I start with this quote because yesterday, Logan graduated from the finest university in all the… Read More »Tomorrow Belongs to the People Who Prepare for it Today
Time to hit the backlog again. Here are some family pictures we took when Elainie was in town… back in March… 2017. Unfortunately, the weather was terrible that day, so we were trapped inside. Hopefully, next time we do a family portrait, the weather will be more cooperative. +++++++++++++ A… Read More »One of Nature’s Masterpieces
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that’s real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone I know Goes… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 14
Every once in a while, a photographer gets to take important pictures. It is rare, but it does happen. I was given such an honor recently when Amber contacted me to take family pictures of her family before Christmas because her Grandpa was being put in hospice care. Here are… Read More »Amber’s Family
The world wasn’t ready for these PORTRAIT images on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: Most of these PORTRAITs were taken around the computer mine. Some were taken during communion at my church. Others were taken in… Read More »Strap a Grenade to my Head, Pull Out the Pin, My Photography is Mind Blowing, Ain’t Nobody Do It Like I Do It