Last Saturday I went down to Manhattan, Kansas to watch Nate graduate from Kansas State University with a degree in Food Science. He will be finding another job soon and hopefully moving closer. Here are some pictures from the party: I transported the cake from Boone. Don’t worry, I didn’t… Read More »Natuation
ODD CAMERA ANGLE has proven to be an oddly successful theme! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Submitted by Andy Sharp – Photo by Don Lester Angie DeWaard Bill Wentworth Christopher D. Bennett… Read More »WPC – WEEK 326 – ODD CAMERA ANGLE
Here is another collection of images from my trip to New York City I took with Jesse. This collection is a bit more random. Some are taken on Liberty Island. The rest are kind of random. I hope if you ever make it to New York City, you have as… Read More »NYC – Four
This year for our family Thanksgiving I wanted to attempt to make root beer. I had Glenn Peterson’s recipe in hand and I also fruitlessly pursued another recipe, but I’m not really sure how different root beer recipes can get. Glenn’s recipe was a little vague on a couple things,… Read More »Sneaky Snake Root Beer
Yesterday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. November really seemed to fly by, with the holiday and other commitments. I think there are some good pictures in here and somethings that I forgot even happened in November. Here are some of my favorites: November 1 November 2… Read More »Selfie Project – November
Once again, this year my church hosted a free Thanksgiving meal for the community. Once again, due to the pandemic it was carryout only. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the day: You can look at all the images by clicking on the link below. They haven’t been… Read More »Boone FUMC Community Thanksgiving – 2021
Here is another collection of images from my trip to New York City with Jesse back in 2011. Most of these pictures are taken around Ellis Island, but some are taken where all the white collar criminals hang out. It was scary hanging out in such a bad neighborhood, but… Read More »NYC – Two
The pictures in this collection are in a folder called New York City. These pictures are from a trip I took with Jesse to visit my cousin Sarah and her beau Tim. They live in Manhattan. We made this trip in 2011 and I thought that I’d probably go out… Read More »NYC – One
A few weeks back the Triplets and Jonah had a birthday party at the KOA near Adel. I wasn’t able to make the party because it was schedule for the same time as the Iowa State-Oklahoma State football game that I was scheduled to attend. But I did have time… Read More »Triplet + Jonah Birthday Party
As I’ve indicated before, the 2011 folders are a disaster. These images cover most of the March 2011 folders. These are mostly pictures that were taken for the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT (now called THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE), but a few were taken for a PERSONAL PHOTO PROJECT. By adding… Read More »March Misc.
The pictures in the folder 2011-02-27 are from a photo shoot I did with Jill. Some are for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. One was displayed at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. Here are the pictures from the folder 2011-02-27: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I… Read More »2011-02-27
On Sunday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. One thing that always happens when I look back at a month’s worth of pictures I’m always surprised at some of the things that all happened in the same month. That? That happened this month? I thought that was… Read More »Selfie Project – October
Reminder this is the last day to submit ideas for next year’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme. Leave you suggestions in the comments section of today’s journal entry. It looks like a few people have people they consider to be a HERO. But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 320 – HERO
The images in the folders 2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20 are mostly from THE NINE EMOTIONS PROJECT. Then there is also a picture I took for Valentine’s Day. Here are the pictures in the folders 2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able… Read More »2011-02-13, 2011-02-17, and 2011-02-20
The pictures in the folder 2011-02-11 are of Jesse and Jay posing for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. Here are the pictures from 2011-02-11: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entry to its original glory: PERSONAL PHOTO… Read More »2011-02-11
This is the final set of peripheral images I took on my road trip with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. The last couple of pictures are from Maxwell that I took on my way back home. I stopped there because I still needed to photograph their Freedom… Read More »Warren County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3
In the next few weeks I will be compiling a list of the next 52 themes. If you have ideas for me to consider, place it in the COMMMENTS section of this here journal entry. I might not use them, but I will definitely give them the consideration that they… Read More »WPC – WEEK 318 – PASSION
The images in the folder 2011-02-09 are actually taken on film. They are double exposures. I love double exposures. Yes, you can certainly fake double exposures with Photoshop and some digital cameras will do them. In fact, I need to get back into that. In fact, I need to run… Read More »2011-02-09
On Tuesday night Layla wanted to go to a 4-H Photo Scavenger Hunt on the Iowa State Campus, but both her parents were indisposed. They asked me to take her and since 4-H photography runs through the blood of this family (both my sisters were accomplished 4-H photographers) I agreed… Read More »4-H Photo Scavenger Hunt
I’m still trying to piece together a folder of 2011 images that make sense. The pictures in the folder 2011-02-06 are from when Jen and Derrick posed for THE 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT. I still need to fire this project back up and get more victims… err models. Here are the… Read More »2011-02-06
This is the final collection of auxiliary images I took while on a road trip with Carla to Butler County to harvest their town signs. Clarksville If you aren’t down with Mollie B, you aren’t down with me. Allison Greene Aredale Bristow Butler Center Ackley I plan in great detail… Read More »BUTLER COUNTY AUXILIARY IMAGES VOL. 2