Night Trailing
Back in June it took a stroll out to the High Trestle Trail to do a little bit of experimental photography. These are the results: Andy day (or night) spend on the High Trestle Trail is a good day (or night).
Back in June it took a stroll out to the High Trestle Trail to do a little bit of experimental photography. These are the results: Andy day (or night) spend on the High Trestle Trail is a good day (or night).
A reminder that if you are looking for a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, the Boone First United Methodist Church is hosting one. And it’s free! All the information you need to know is below: With turkey prices up 25% this year and the average Thanksgiving meal up 4.1%, there will… Read More »Baby, Time Meant Nothin’
Back on March 15, I ducked into Rieman Music to visit Derrick and his crew and take a few pictures for that week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme that week was MUSIC. One of these pictures actually became my submission, but the rest, well they were relegated to the… Read More »Babe, It Couldn’t Have Been that Easy
Time to clean up the January backlog. These images I took back in January, but they never really fit into a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. Most of them are alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some were taken in the Boone High parking lot. Some were taken in my… Read More »You Could Never See
Since we’ve cleared up the entire 2024 backlog, time to start hammering away at the 2025 backlog. Here is a collection of images from January that never fit into any previous “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. Some of them are just of my outdoor Christmas tree decorations, but others are alternates… Read More »And I Showed You Stars
Time to clean out that 2024 backlog some more. This collection of mostly street photography images in downtown Boone. I think most of these were either alternate images for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme SYMMETRY and maybe some were images considered for a theme reveal image for REFLECTIONS. Have… Read More »Well, It was Nearly Summer
On Saturday I shared a collection of images from Greene County that were alternates for the ART theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Today I’m going to share the rest of the alternates. These were taken in Harcourt. Have a look: I’m almost out of 2024 images to share. Almost!
Time to clean up the backlog a little bit. These pictures were are alternates for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme of ART. I took these pictures in Dana, Iowa and Paton, Iowa.. Have a look! There are still more pictures from this road trip to share!
It is time to once again to clean up some of the backlog. This is a collection of images that I like, but never really fit into a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. Most of these images were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are the pictures: It always… Read More »I’m a Weirdo
Today’s entry is a collection of some rando portraits from last fall. Some are self-portraits that were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme SELF-PORTRAIT. The others were taken for the Computer Mine holiday card, although I don’t know if any of them were actually used. Have a look at… Read More »Some Portraits
Everybody loves Bokeh pictures! Here is a collection of pictures that were alternates for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme ANIMAL. They were all taken in my backyard. Here is the collection: It is always a joy to share pictures of Bokeh!
Time to clean out some more of the backlog. All of these images were taken in July of last year. They are images I like to one level or another, but they never quite fit into any previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. Some were taken in downtown Boone and the… Read More »I Want You to Notice
Time to clean up part of the back log. Here we are. The last night of May. 2025. And these images are from the backlog of images from June of 2024. These are images that I took, and I like, but never really found there way into a previous “An… Read More »I Want a Perfect Soul
Time to reveal the July image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JULY TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 150-600 f/5-6.3 DG DN FOCAL LENGTH: 276mm APERTURE: f/14 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/6400 ISO: 160 DATE TAKEN: August 2, 2024 I took this picture on my trip to the Indianola National… Read More »I Don’t Care if it Hurts
I made a horrible mistake yesterday. I didn’t mislabel or completely miss somebody’s submissions. Like I have done in the past. No. I completely forgot to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! (1 day late.) I apologize for missing it. The Computer Mine does not celebrate a single… Read More »I Wish I Was Special
My eyes adored you Though I never laid a hand on you My eyes adored you Like a million miles away from me You couldn’t see how I adored you So close, so close and yet so far Carried your books from school Playin’ make believe you’re married to me… Read More »My Eyes Adored You
Today is Adam’s birthday so I have to with him a happy birthday: Happy birthday Adam! I hope your birthday is another big advance in your recovery and we will see you back in the pulpit soon! +++++++ This is a comprehensive sweep of all the pictures from 2023 (except… Read More »In a Beautiful World
Time to share the balance of pictures I took on a road trip with Teresa to Oskaloosa. Most of these pictures are in Oskaloosa, but the last two are of the enigmatic community Christmas Tree in Slater. I am really getting close to being done with 2023 pictures. About all… Read More »You Float Like a Feather
To continue off yesterday’s post, this post is the beginning of the STREET PHOTOGRAPHY images I took in Oskaloosa. An underrated town. One more collection of images of this road trip with Teresa left to share. I didn’t reach my goal of being almost done with 2023 images by the… Read More »Your Skin Makes Me Cry
Back in December Teresa and I made a little road trip to Pella and Oskaloosa. There were 2 parts of this road trip. 1 was so I could take some STREET PHOTOGRAPHY pictures for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The other reason was so I could complete the Tenderloin Trail 2.0… Read More »You’re Just Like an Angel
Here is a collection of images I took back in November in Webster City. They are mostly alternate images for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme SIGN. Just walked around and did a smidge of the street photography. There was one more picture I took on this day that I wanted… Read More »Couldn’t Look You in the Eye