Not a ton of submissions for CITY and this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I worry that many of my followers are country bumpkins that fell off the turnip truck before they could make it to a big city like say… Boone, Iowa. Despite the lack of submissions, they do range… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 138 – CITY
Here are a few Easter pictures from both the Rise of the Son Service and the breakfast that followed: Photo credit for the majority of these photos go to Jaxon. I’m still waiting for the day he submits a photo for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
Thanks to everybody that came out to Pizza Ranch last night and supported the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group! The event was a smashing success and we broke the previous record (which we also held) for most scratch raised at a Boone Pizza Ranch Fundraiser! My phone was… Read More »Thanks a Thousand And Some Change!
This is your last reminder. There is a fundraiser for First United Methodist Church Youth Group tonight at Pizza Ranch from 5-9. Bring a copy of this voucher: And Pizza Ranch will give us $2. There will also be tip jars on the tables so that you can donate additional… Read More »Final Reminder: Pizza Ranch Fundraiser Tonight!
As you may have guessed, I have a ton of alternative BLACK & WHITE images for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The world wasn’t ready for them on Monday. I’m not sure the world can handle them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: Some of these pictures were… Read More »I’m a Mean Photog, Better Feed Me Fauxtogs or Feed Me Picts, Ah, Feed Me Both of ‘Em
What are you doing next Wednesday night? I bet you’re going to eat! Why not go to Pizza Ranch and support the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group? From 5-9 PM next Wednesday night, if you eat at the Boone Pizza Ranch and give them one of the vouchers… Read More »Pizza Ranch Fundraiser – Next Wednesday
I know it is also Valentine’s Day, but Ash Wednesday is the more important holiday. So Happy Ash Wednesday! If you don’t know what Ash Wednesday is, it is the day that Christians post selfies that look something like this: File Photo If the Selfie Project was still ongoing, I’m… Read More »Happy Ash Wednesday!
More alternatives for COLORFUL that the world couldn’t handle on Monday. I’m hoping it can handle them now: Most of these photos were taken at Boone First United Methodist Church. A few were taken in the campustown area of Ames. The pictures of Naima were taken in the Photography 139… Read More »Them Photogs, They Coming Up on Me; I Cut Off the Ladder, And I Told ‘Em,”Bye-Bye”
The world wasn’t ready for these COLORFUL pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world can handle them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: All of these photos were taken at Boone First United Methodist Church. Many of them with an in-camera special effect. More of these… Read More »This Ladder of Photography I Climbed; I Took the Machete; The Game Isn’t Ready
While I was working on “Friday’s” blog post, it occurred to me that perhaps it was time to share my biggest photographic screw-up of 2017. I have many weaknesses as a photographer. My greatest weakness is that I have a tendency to dink with camera settings. That isn’t the bad… Read More »Forgive Me for My Human Frailty
Pages 50-51 in the PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT are “A record of missed photo opportunities”. I think that the actual intention is to write down missed opportunities, but I translated it to mean times when the only camera I had on me was my phone. Sometimes that resulted in serviceable pictures… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Pages 50-51
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
I don’t usually explain the titles of the entries in The Artist’s Notebook, but I’m going to explain this one. Last night as I was restlessly watching a DVRed copy of THE HUNT FOR THE ZODIAC KILLER and thinking about general events of the day, I played a snap from… Read More »Manger Things
I wanted to start today’s entry into An Artist’s Notebook by thanking Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile to the Senate. Thank you Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile to the Senate. Thank you Alabama for not sending a serial pedophile that thinks that homosexuality should be a… Read More »#Methodists2Houston
I don’t know that I did much that was particularly interesting in November, but I do feel like I did get some interesting photos, even though it doesn’t feel like I did that much in November. Here are my favorites from THE SELFIE PROJECT from the month of November: November… Read More »Selfie Project – November
I hope all of you had a marvelous Thanksgiving weekend! I had a particularly great Thanksgiving weekend myself. On Thursday morning I got up and went down to the church (Boone First United Methodist represent!) to take photos of our annual Thanksgiving. This is the second year in a row… Read More »Relationship Goals
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Rather than my standard picture of an inflatable turkey, thought (with apologies to Lecrae, I’d give thanks for some of the many blessings in my life. Count it up, count it up, count it up. Line ’em up, line ’em up, line ’em up. Blessed with a… Read More »Won’t Take that Credit; I know Where We Get It; Them Blessings Be Comin’ from God Above
You can tell the year is starting to wind down. I don’t feel I did the best work on THE SELFIE PROJECT in October. It admittedly wasn’t the busiest month of the year for me, but I still had plenty of things go down. I’ll have to try to do… Read More »Selfie Project – October
A month or so back, my church (Boone First United Methodist Church, represent!) had their annual-ish summer is over kickoff party. So it doesn’t really have a name. But a bunch of Methodists get together at Herman Park and throw down some food and have a good time. Here are… Read More »Ain’t No Party Like a Methodist Party!
I might have posted these pictures earlier, but up until Saturday it still made me sick to think about how Iowa State blew a double digit to an inferior team from the other side of the state. Then Saturday happened. After Iowa State’s historic road victory over the #3 team… Read More »Time Doesn’t Heal Anything, It Just Teaches Us How to Live with the Pain
Here is your weekly reminder that this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is ART: ART ART! Such a great theme! But what is ART? I’m partial to the definition of Marc Chagall: Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – ART