The day I harvested the town signs of Pottawattamie County and Harrison County I started from Nate and Laura’s place in Manhattan, Kansas. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip: Beattie, Kansas Council Bluffs Crescent Council Bluffs McClelland Neola Persia Missouri Valley I have one more… Read More »Pottawattamie and Harrison County Aux – Vol. 1
SLICE OF LIFE got more results than I am expected. You people have impressed me! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, May 9, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: + Linda Bennett – 1 week + Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 2 weeks + Angie DeWaard – 3 weeks +… Read More »WPC – WEEK 348 – SLICE OF LIFE
A long, long time ago when I revealed the towns signs of Monroe County I pointed out that the town of Melrose, Iowa had a memorial up in their town park to honor the 1936-37 Melrose Shamrocks boys basketball team. A team that the Des Moines Register honored as the… Read More »Monroe and Mahaska County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
Here is the second collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Cedar County. A few of these are taken in Muscatine County. A few are taken in Benton County. The majority of them are taken in West Branch at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. Herbert… Read More »Cedar County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2
The Saturdays of repairing broken “An Artist’s Notebook” post from the past are gone. At least I think I hope they are. I’m sure there is still work to be done still. There always is work to be done. Therefore, I’m not sure what will occupy Saturdays. It will probably… Read More »Linn and Jones County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
Several months back I cruised around Decatur County and Wayne County with Vest harvesting their town signs. This is the first collection of auxiliary images I took on this trip: Weldon Le Roy Humeston Garden Grove Leon You may recall a few weeks ago I talked about a sweet free… Read More »Decatur and Wayne County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
Several months back I cruised around Kossuth ad Winnebago County harvesting their town signs. This is the third and final collection of auxiliary images from that road trip. The next time we hit the open road and share some auxiliary images from TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trips, we will be… Read More »Kossuth and Winnebago County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3
Today is a big day for Iowa State athletics. Iowa State is one of only two schools that have both their Men’s and Women’s basketball team still alive in the NCAA tournament. For the Men, this is pretty shocking since they only won two games last year. This was the… Read More »Kossuth and Winnebago County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2
Back on Monday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. I once again should thank Elizabeth as she assisted on a few of the photos this month. Here are the pictures from February: February 1 – A is For… February 2 – B is… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – February 2022
The May picture for the 2022 Photography 139 Calendar is a picture of an elk from Jester Park. It was from the first “real” photography session I took after taking a few weeks off from photography. Tomorrow I will reveal the June image. +++++++ Here is another collection of images… Read More »Southwest Auxiliary Images Vol. 2
Several weeks back Logan and Brandon accompanied me on a town sign harvesting trip to Cass County Iowa. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip: Adair County Anita Wiota Cumberland Griswold Cold Springs State Park I do want to point out that I do not venerate… Read More »Cass County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
Here is the balance of images from my road trip with Jesse to harvest the town signs of Cerro Gordo and Worth County: Mason City Rock Falls Plymouth Grafton Legend has it this place has great chicken! Bolan Kensett Northwood Manly I love the part about the town of Bolan… Read More »Cerro Gordo and Worth County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2
A few weeks back I made a solo trip to Kossuth County to harvest their town signs. Kossuth County is the largest county in Iowa covering 972 square miles. Pottawattamie County is second, covering 950 square miles. It was twice split into two counties with the northern section broke off… Read More »Town Sign Project: Kossuth County
Here is the final collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Hancock County. Although I would say about 50% of these pictures were taken in other counties. Like Winnebago County or Cerro Gordo County or Worth County. Forest City Pilot Knob State Park Fertile Thornton… Read More »Hancock County Auxiliary Images Vol. 3
A few weekends back I tooled around Humboldt County and harvested their town sign. Here is a collection of some of the auxiliary images I took on this road trip, including some I took as I went back south threw Calhoun County. Humboldt Renwick LuVerne Livermore Ottosen Rutland Gilmore City… Read More »Humboldt County Auxiliary Images
This is a reminder that if you are interested in entering the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest, the deadline is next Wednesday: To download the entry form and the rules, click on the link below: Entry Form A special thanks to Michelle for modifying the form so you don’t have to… Read More »Marion County Auxiliary Images
This collection of images is cleaning up some random photos from January and February. The highlight and the majority of these images are taken from when Logan brought Dahlia over see Mom and Teresa. That was a good day! +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »Congregation
Back in March I made a solo trip up to Franklin County to harvest the town signs that I was missing. Here are some of the auxiliary images I took while I was up there. Popejoy Bradford Hampton Chapin Sheffield Hampton Again Geneva Beeds Lake State Park Coulter Franklin County… Read More »Franklin County Auxiliary Images
The folders 2010-09-06, 2010-09-11, and 2010-09-13 were all fairly small, so I decided to combine them into one post. Two of the folders include images that were taken for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, which back then was known as the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. The other pictures are of Dawn’s… Read More »2010-09-06, 2010-09-11, and 2010-09-13
There weren’t many pictures in the folders 2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, and 2010-08-30 so I combined them with the folder 2010-08-29. Most of the pictures are from a baby shower Sara and I (she really did all the work) for Jen and Derrick when Jen was preggers with Evie. There are also… Read More »2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, 2010-08-29, and 2010-08-30
This is a collection of some more of the first pictures I took with the Tamron wide angle lens. some are at the courthouse. Some around the high bridges. Some around the Kate Shelley Museum: I do love that wide angle zoom lens! +++++++ This is your reminder that this… Read More »Wide Angling