WARNING: Next Monday is Stephanie Kim’s birthday. I always take time to celebrate Stephanie’s birthday. So there is a good chance that I will be out celebrating and if that is the case, I will be too busy to send any form of reminders. You will have to be your own… Read More »WPC – WEEK 556 – AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
When this post publishes I will be somewhere in the sky between Atlanta, Georgia and Des Moines, Iowa. While I will have a computer sitting at my feet, I will have spent the morning running around airports and haven’t had anything that resembles the time to put together a post… Read More »Week 556 Theme Reveal
This is a different sort of a food adventure. Rather than a new place that I was trying, this is the last time I had a well loved tenderloin. By the time this publishes, the proprietor of the best tenderloin in Boone will have shuttered their doors and gone the… Read More »Requiem for a Tenderloin
It is the 7th day of April. Seems like a good time to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from March. I didn’t travel a ton in March. But I did watch a ton of basketball in my basement. Well… it was exciting to me. Here are the March selfies:… Read More »Selfie Project – March 2026
Recently the Iowa Beef Council announced the finalists for the 2026 Iowa’s Best Burger Contest. Here is a look at the map they put out: There are a ton of them that are pretty dang close to my front door and considering that I’m about out of food adventures to… Read More »I Scream: Council Bluffs Field Work
Last Saturday we left off in the middle of the Arnolds Park Amusement Park. Which is a remarkable for no other reason than because admission is free. You have to pay for rides sure, but you don’t have to pay to get in. And when you are just looking for… Read More »Arnolds Park Day Trip: Amusement Park
My food adventures really don’t concentrate on tenderloins enough. I don’t know that will change, but it probably should. This was the most recent tenderloin adventure I’ve had with my OG Tenderloin Buddy. The co-founder of the Tenderloin Appreciation Society. My guy and yours, Scottie D.! But this was a… Read More »Tenderloining: Redfield Field Work
It is time once again for the greatest sporting event of year. It is that time known as March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Once again, I will be sponsoring a NCAA Tournament Pool. There is no cost to enter the pool, except for pride. And if pride is… Read More »Cue: Ankeny Field Work
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve kind of suspended wishing people happy birthday from this site for the time being at least. Except one exception. If that birthday is included in the physical copy of the Photography 139 calendar. There are a bunch of birthdays in the digital calendar. But only… Read More »Selfie Project – February 2026
It is time I start sharing pictures I took at the Iowa State Fair last year. I only went to the Iowa State Fair 3 times last year. Once with the O’Gorshes to watch Evie and Layla do their Irish dancing thing. Once with Tall & Meaty for their barbecue… Read More »ISF: 08/07/2025 – Before the Dancing!
The Tuesday before Thanksgiving was an interesting day. It was the day that the new “Try Boone You’ll Stay” sign was put in place. This was a project that was several years in the making and it was made to replicate a sign that used to hang in Boone near… Read More »Cluck! Cluck! Ames Field Work
After admiring the Frank Gotch Statue, admiring downtown Humboldt, and having a tasty lunch, I headed south on 169 back towards Fort Dodge. But on the way down I stopped at Frank Gotch State Park. Frank Gotch State Park is where the two forks of the Des Moines River combine… Read More »June Road Trip: Back to the Dirty
For Elainie’s birthday meal she selected a taco place (well Mexican place) in Johnston that specializes in birria tacos. It was the second time in a few months I was taken to a place to have amazing birria tacos. Sabas and Elainie claimed that they don’t eat there very often.… Read More »Taco ‘Bout It: Johnston Field Work
A few weeks back the theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE was BLACK & WHITE. I used a picture of Johnny Orr from Hilton Coliseum as my submission, but you are a dang fool if you think that was the only BLACK & WHITE image I took that week. A… Read More »Transcendental Meditation
Time for the first collection of images from Day 5 of my work trip to Philadelphia. This was another day where I had to work (on a work trip, I know!) and the first part of the evening was going to the cheesesteak place the locals recommend and listening to… Read More »Philadelphia Day 5: The Streets
It is the third day of February. Seems like a good time to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from January. My travel was pretty minimal in January. I didn’t leave the state. But at least I made it as far away from my front doorstep as Grinnell. Also made… Read More »Selfie Project – January 2026
A few weeks back the theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE was BLACK & WHITE. I used a picture of Johnny Orr from Hilton Coliseum as my submission, but you are a dang fool if you think that was the only BLACK & WHITE image I took that week. A… Read More »Somewhere in Between
I only made 3 trips to the Iowa State Fair in 2025. One with the O’Gorshes. Another one with Tall and Meaty. Then a final one on the last day of the Fair with Teresa and Valerie to pick up my pictures from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. On… Read More »State Fairin’: Trip 3
Time to reveal the December image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. The final image. DECEMBER – 2026 The subject of the December image is me holding a candle during the Candlelight Service at Boone First United Methodist Church. I’m kind of a man’s man. No collar worker with blue… Read More »Des Moining III
Time to reveal the November image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. NOVEMBER – 2026 The subject of the November image is a water lily I found at the Des Moines Botanical Garden. I am a proud member of the Iowa Arboretum and with that membership I can get in… Read More »WPC – WEEK 539 – ENTERTAINMENT
Time to reveal the October image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. The subject of the October image was taken of the Cliffs of Moher. The time of day we visited the Cliffs of Moher it was just crazy with people. You couldn’t throw a dead cat without hitting 20… Read More »State Fairin’: Trip 2
