When we left off, I had just won 1st Place in Black and White and 3rd Place in Color at the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, but had been completely rejected by the Iowa State Fair for the 4th year in a row. Whatever I was selling, the judges were not… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 2
Recently I’ve been working on an organizational project as I prepare to get rid of a bunch of things in Boone’s annual Citywide Cleanup in a couple of weeks. Part of this has been organizing every (almost) picture that I have entered in a photo contest, both physically in a… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 1
The pictures in the folder 2010-09-05 are of Shannon after she got a new haircut and of a turtle that was briefly in my custody in 2010. I don’t remember the exact details of the turtle, but it came from Dawn and then eventually was adopted by somebody else, but… Read More »2010-09-05
This is the final collection of pictures I’m sharing from the photo shoot with Alexis shortly before she gave birth to Anela. However, she doesn’t appear in any of these pictures. These are all pictures of big brother Kanoa. I still have a collection of Anela pictures and several collections… Read More »Alexis Prego Cuatro
The folder 2010-08-23 is absolutely stuffed to the gills. There are so many images in there I almost considered breaking it up into a couple posts, but decided against it. There are pictures in there from a trip to the Iowa State Fair and pictures of Jen and Derrick when… Read More »2010-08-23
It has been over 2 months since I got back to this photo shoot with the Stenslands at the end of 2020. It was a real blessing to have gotten so many of these pictures taken with Mom. She originally was just tagging along and then she went home and… Read More »The Stenslands 2020 – Beta
There aren’t many images in the folders 2010-08-13 and 2010-08-14 so I decided to combine them with the folder 2010-08-16 that contains many pictures from a trip I took to the Iowa State Fair. There are also pictures of Jesse and two of his progeny and of a moonflower. By… Read More »2010-08-13, 2010-08-14, & 2010-08-16
Here is the third installment of pictures I took of Alexis when she was pregnant with Anela. Although, the grand majority of these pictures are of Kanoa sporting his big brother shirt! I still have one more collection of these photos to share.
Here is the final collection of images from the 2002 photo shoot with the Degeneffe Boys: I look forward to the 2021 Degeneffe Boys Photo Shoot. +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is HANDS: HANDS A HANDS image is pretty simple. It is… Read More »Austin & Porter 2020 C
Here is the second collection of images I took of Anela from when she was 2 weeks old. I still have more Anela pictures to share.
Combining two folder as one folder only has a couple images in it. Most of the pictures from these folders are from an event know as Hedgegeddon. That was when I took out the hedge that surrounded my backyard. It was truly the battle of battles, but eventually with the… Read More »2010-07-29 & 2010-07-30
The pictures in the folder 2010-07-21 are from a photo session I had with Jen and Derrick while she was pregnant with Evie. We had 6 of these photo sessions as I documented the pregnancy process. This was the third of those sessions: By adding these pictures to the Photography… Read More »2010-07-21
Today is the second Sunday of Lent. I’m going to share a devotional by Reverend Ron Carlson: Giving up and letting go Rev. Ron Carlson John 2:13-22 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple those who were selling… Read More »The Stenslands 2020- Alpha
It is the first Sunday of Lent. It is possible you couldn’t get to church today for a wide variety of reasons. To help you out I’m sharing a devotional by Reverend Melissa Drake. “Knowing our Identity” Mark 1: 9-13: By: Rev. Melissa Drake, Southwest Region Superintendent We are in… Read More »Anela Chapter 1
Today I’m going to share some pictures I took of Jesse in a culvert that goes under the Senholz Trail near Linwood Cemetery. These pictures were alternates for Week 268 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme was FRAMED: This originally was going to start out a burning steel wool… Read More »The Underminer
I need to start out by wishing a Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody that celebrates today. Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, I know that there are a ton of people out there that are violently opposed to Saint Valentine’s Day. They call it a holiday invented by candy companies and the… Read More »Alexis Prego Dos
This is the final collection of pictures from when I went to Manhattan to take pictures of the triplets near their second birthday. Chaos! That is the only way to really describe what a photo session with 3 two year-olds with their own agenda. I should have brought a photo… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 4
I thought I would have posted the second and last collection of pictures of Amanda and Logan well before, but life happens. So here is the rest of the images of Amanda and Logan before she gave birth to Dahlia shortly thereafter: I look forward to a day when we… Read More »Amanda and Logan – Pre-Dahlia No. 2
August 9, 2006. That was the date where I first took keyboard in hand and began typing out the blog that I entitled “An Artist’s Notebook”. I entitled that first post “First Journal Entry”. The categories for that first post were “Blogging”, “Contests”, “Jay”, and “Sara”. This is the first… Read More »Post #4,000
A couple months back I met Alexis at McFarland Park to take some pictures of her shortly before she gave birth to Anela. While 2020 was a cesspool of terrible, I did add two great-nieces to my family. In Anela and Dahlia. Here is the first collection of Alexis pregnancy… Read More »Alexis Prego Uno
All the pictures in the folder 2010-06-05 are pictures of Derrick and Jen while Jen was pregnant with Evie. This was a part of a series of images we took to document Jen’s pregnancy as part of a PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. Here are some of those images: By adding these… Read More »2010-06-05