In a sad, but necessary decision, the Iowa State Fair officially cancelled for this year yesterday. They sent out the following email: The Iowa State Fair Board, the governing body who oversees the Iowa State Fair, today voted to postpone the 2020 Iowa State Fair until August 12-22, 2021, amid… Read More »Ghost in a Dream
35 days working from home in the book. I did discover a new positive about working from home this week. I had to go into the physical computer mine twice this week because Apple products suck. They really do. I have nothing positive to say about them. But that isn’t… Read More »You Know, I Hurt Myself As Well
Since Monday’s reveal of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE submissions I have been flooded (virtually) with questions about what Naima listens to when she has her headphones on. To be honest, she doesn’t listen to music on headphones. She finds them to be incredibly uncomfortable, as the pictures below will surely… Read More »A Spectacle Monopolized
This collection of images from the 2019 backlog are from December. The pictures of Naima I took out at her favorite stomping grounds, Dickcissel Park. The pictures of Willy are from track at Goeppinger Field. The Willy pictures are alternates for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme of SPORTS/GAMES. Really… Read More »Chewed Up and Spit Out and Booed Off Stage
I took several pictures of my sad, pathetic, battered, old trombone. These are the ones that didn’t make the big cut for the big show on Monday. That poor trombone should probably go in the trash, but I worry that the trash man wouldn’t even accept it. +++++++ This is… Read More »The Numbing Sensation of Everything
Happy Friday the 13th everybody! Considered to be a very unlucky day, but considering how bad of a shape our country is in right now, I don’t want to invite any more bad luck. So I am going to celebrate by watching a Friday the 13th movie tonight. Not sure… Read More »Hurting My Head from Things that I Said
By the time this email flies through the tubes of the internet and gets flushed down into your computer, phone, web tv, or whatever device you use to upload Photography 139 content into your brain, the Super Bowl will probably be somewhere in the third quarter. You will probably be… Read More »There is No Blame, Only Shame
Last Saturday I took Naima for a walk around Ledges to take a picture for the HDR theme of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Obviously I took more photos than the one I shared. Here are the ones that didn’t make the cut: Since HDR (true HDR) is the taking of… Read More »The Constant Shame of My Existence
Today’s post features some pictures I took back in February. Some are pictures I took for the RUINS theme of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in Colo. The majority of the pictures are of Naima playing around in the backyard of the Photography 139 Studio. Some of these pictures clearly don’t… Read More »A Jazz Standard
Hitting up the the 2018 backlog with some pictures I took of the Iowa State-Drake women’s basketball game. I think I took these pictures for a SPORTS theme week for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I’m glad that I did, because I got some pictures of probably the best player in… Read More »GOAT
Here is another post from the 2018 backlog. These are mostly pictures of Naima. I think they might have been alternates for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme the week they were taken. I’m not entirely sure and I’m not up to that level of soul searching and research. There is… Read More »Dogface
It is well established that my favorite theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is BLACK & WHITE. Therefore I took several BLACK & WHITE pictures in the last week and not just the picture of Taylan that I used as my submission for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a… Read More »Available as Another Possibility
…the strength of street knowledge. I don’t usually take a bunch of extra pictures for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE any longer, but with a theme like STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, it really screamed to take a ton of images. So that is what I did. On Saturday morning I went down to… Read More »You are About to Witness…
I took a few alternate TRANSPORTATION pictures for last week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. All of these were taken with the new drone. There will be a more comprehensive blog on the drone if it ever warms up and I get to actually make some videos and what-not. I don’t know… Read More »Transportation – Alternate
I haven’t published alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE for quite sometime because I haven’t taken excessive WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE images like I had been. However, last week I did take a few more ART pictures, so I thought I would share them: All of these pictures were taken on… Read More »Art is a Lie…
Happy Friday the 13th! You know what is funny about today? Nothing. Except for your reminder of this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. HUMOR! HUMOR! HUMOR! What is a HUMOR photo? It is a photo of something that is funny or of somebody reacting to something that is funny. Happy photo… Read More »I’ve Invested a lot of Me Inside these Lines, I’m Just Protecting ‘Em
A reminder that this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is HANDS. HANDS! A HANDS photo is any photo that involves HANDS. I would say that everybody has HANDS, but everybody doesn’t. However, I can bet that everybody knows somebody that has HANDS. This project is easy peasy. Happy… Read More »In 10 Minutes, I Still Couldn’t Explain What’s Inside my Brain, Don’t Mess with It!
Reminder, you have until next Tuesday at midnight to vote on what pictures I enter at the Boone County Fair Photo Contest. Click on the link below to vote: BOONE COUNTY FAIR PHOTO CONTEST ENTRY SELECTION You must have a Facebook account or a Google+ account to vote. You vote… Read More »Some of this Brain is Off Limits; I’m Off in a World that You Don’t Get; ‘Cause You Ain’t Ever Been In It!
The world wasn’t ready for these SELF-PORTRAIT pictures last Monday, mostly because I was in Vidor, Texas. The world also wasn’t ready for them this Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: You’re welcome world! +++++++++++++++ Reminder, you… Read More »My Life Is A Mess, Better Watch Your Step When You Step In It!
Those of you that know me well or are paying attention to this here blog know that tomorrow at 7 AM I hit the road for a Mission Trip to Houston. We will leave Saturday morning. Stay a night at a church near Fort Worth on Saturday night and then… Read More »And What You Gon’ Be When You Grow up Chris? I Doubt They Will Get It!
I need to start this post with yet another apology. On Monday, when I posted the submissions for RELIGION and THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE I did not post a second picture submitted by Andy. This was not an error of carelessness like in some past weeks. I legitimately didn’t know… Read More »You Still Wonder Why I Existed, I Exist in a World That’s Real Different!