On Saturday, the Tenderloin Appreciation Society hopped in one of Scottie D.’s many vehicles and headed north on 17 to Webster City. Home of the Grid Iron Grill and Sports Lounge. The current reigning Best Tenderloin in Iowa according to the Iowa Pork Producer’s Association. Scott and Porter had their… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Webster City Field Work
Hitting the back log again. These are images I took the day after some young hooligans set fire to the Cedar Bridge near Winterset. I’m not really sure what possessed people to burn down this bridge. While I do agree that the efforts of Robert James Waller are an affront… Read More »The Burned Bridge of Madison County
Here are some photos from the last 2 Iowa State football games I attended. Both ended in controversial defeats for Iowa State. The game against Oklahoma State, the bad call took the tying touchdown away from Iowa State, but I can understand why the bad call was made. There were… Read More »Lost in a Roman Wilderness of Pain
Hitting the backlog again. Going back to May when Mom, Teresa, Logan, and I went to What Cheer, Iowa for a flea market. After we left the flea market we went to Oskaloosa for lunch and then went through Pella on our way back home. Here are pictures from that… Read More »Flowers Heal Me, Tulips Make Me Happy
As me and my friendly neighborhood robocopy scripts make it through the back log, I’ve come across some images from the day I went down to Winterset after some young hooligans burned down one of the famous (or infamous depending on how you feel about “literature”) covered bridges of Madison… Read More »I Ain’t No Hogback Girl!
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is PORTRAIT: PORTRAIT Here is a good definition of PORTRAIT provide by the good folks at Wikipedia: Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – PORTRAIT
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
Here are a few pictures from a couple stops we made between Sioux Falls and Rapid City: Not pictured is Wall Drug. Wall Drug is a waste of time. Next time we check in with this little vacation we will take a look at Mount Rushmore.
On the way to the Black Hills we stopped at Falls Park in Sioux Falls. Because we got a late start to the trip, so we didn’t hang around Falls Park for long. Plus it was pouring rain and it was cold. I did snap a few photos before we… Read More »Falls Park
Now that I’ve been back to reality for 7 days, probably a good time to go over my vacation. FRIDAY Left work at 4 PM or so. Vacation starts. Had FNSC with Willy. Ate at Colorado Grill. After Colorado Grill. Started watching a new show, NARCOS. SATURDAY Breakfast at Legal… Read More »Remembered with Nostalgia
I haven’t made much progress on THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT lately. A disturbing amount of towns don’t have signs. That lack of town pride disappoints me. Gets me right in the feels. The negative feels. Here are 7 more town signs that I have reaped in recent weeks: Bouton Woodward… Read More »The Town Sign Project Vol. 2
Because I don’t have enough photo projects going on I have recently decided to start a new photo project. It is a project that I have started in the past and then quit. n Maybe I’m like Hollywood and I’m out of ideas, so I just reboot old ideas? Maybe… Read More »Introducing… The Town Sign Project!
It feels like I didn’t get off the couch much in July. I guess we’ll take a look. Here are some of my favorites from the month of July from THE SELFIE PROJECT: July 1 July 2 July 4 July 5 July 8 July 9 July 11 July 12 July… Read More »Selfie Project – July
On a recent trip to Algona with Joe we made a stop in West Bend and I knocked out Page 5 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Page 5 – Go somewhere really touristy and take nontouristy pictures. Here are a few of the pictures I took but didn’t select to… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 5
Here we are in August and I haven’t checked back into THE SELFIE PROJECT for the month of June. Here are some of favorites from June: June 2 June 5 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 13 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 18 June 20… Read More »Selfie Project – June
These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes for the SKY theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: If only these pictures believed in themselves. There is no telling what they might accomplish!
A couple months back Mom, Teresa, Logan, and I hopped into a vehicle of some kind and headed due east for famous What Cheer, Iowa and it’s even more famous flea market. It didn’t disappoint. I think a person could spend all day there and still not see all the… Read More »All the Fleas!
On the last day of my vacation I took a quick sprint up to Dolliver Memorial State Park. On my way there I passed through Dayton. I stopped in Dayton to look for something to fulfill Page 9 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. I found this picture just waiting to… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 9
On the last day of my vacation, I headed to Dolliver Memorial State Park. My mission was to complete Page 80 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Good news is that it worked out! Page 80 – Next time you pass something and think, “Hey that would make a great picture”,… Read More »A PHOTO JOURNAL – HENRY CARROLL – PAGE 80
Here are a few of my favorites from the ongoing Selfie Project from the month of May: May 2 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 9 May 10 May 12 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 27 May… Read More »Selfie Project – May
Thought I’d share another one of my favorite photos from my trip to Manhattan to visit Nate and Laura. This water tower is on top of Manhattan Hill. I think Manhattan Hill is one of my favorite places in Manhattan. Although on this recent trip I was introduced to Top… Read More »Manhattan Nights