When we last visited the collection of images from Day 1 of my trip to Philadelphia, Lowell and I had just left the Independence Hall area. In this collection we will go by the cemetery where Benjamin Franklin is buried on our way to Chinatown. Here are the pictures: If… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Walk to Chinatown
Back on April 19, I had a big photography day. I went to Pella to do a little tulip flowertography. And I closed out the day at Iowa State University taking pictures of Virgil, the owl living in the Lagomarcino courtyard. But in between those two photo sessions, I went… Read More »Mutual Aid Rally I
Now it is time to begin sharing the collection of cruddy cell phone pictures of the trip home from Ireland to the Cyclone State. We got up in the morning and headed to the lumber yard/cafe and then headed to a grocery store to find a post office so that… Read More »Travel Home Day 1
Earlier in the year I took a solo trip up to Clear Lake for their annual kite festival known as Color the Wind. I was unsure if I was going to make the trip as the weather was a little dodgy in the early morning, but I decided to at… Read More »Color the Wind 2025 – I
Back in April I went to Philadelphia for several days on a trip for the Computer Mine. The first day was a travel day, so after I got to Philadelphia, the rest of the day was really mine. After I got checked in to my hotel Lowell and l I… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Walkabout Begins
There aren’t many cruddy cell phone pictures from Day 6, the last day in Ireland to share. One of the things we did was far too dangerous to have a cell phone out. It wasn’t dangerous for us, but a cell phone would have definitely gotten lost. Plus I definitely… Read More »Ireland Day 6
This is it. The final collection of images from my work trip to Austin, Texas. When we left off last Friday, we were walking around the Texas State Capitol. We will begin inside the Capitol and the rest of the pictures are from the walk back to the hotel. Once… Read More »Austin Day 5: The Walk Back
Last time we left off we were walking to the stadium for the game. Our good friends from the Luas told us to just follow the canal and we would get there. We should have followed their advice. We followed the canal most of the way, but then we started… Read More »Ireland Day 4: Part 2
The last collection of images I shared from the Iowa State-Iowa game were pictures from around the Big Noon set. This collection of images are from the Spirit Walk. Here are some pictures: Still one more collection of images from this pre-game left to share. Maybe next Saturday.
Last Friday we started on the River Walk with Joe and Lowell. This week we will finish off the river walk and go through the restaurant where we got a late lunch. Here are the pictures: Still quite a few images left from my last day in Austin left to… Read More »Austin Day 5: More River Walk
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
On Day 3 of Austin, I was able to get away from work enough to do a quick little walk around our area and do some night street photography. Here are some pictures: The next day in Austin, there wasn’t much of anything, as far as photography, but I’ll share… Read More »Austin Day 3: Night Street Photography
This is the final collection of 2024 images (besides the Howard Family Photo Shoot) I have to share. Then the 2024 backlog will be all but clear! Have a look: Feels good to have that 2024 backlog all but cleared.
Going to wipe out the rest of the 2024 images (with the exception of the Howard Family Photo Shoot) in the next 2 days. These are a bunch of images that I liked, but never really found their way into a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. They are all over… Read More »We Sat on Your Roof
This week’s flowertography comes from the 3 distinct trips I made to see Stink Floyd. You don’t know Stink Floyd? Stink Floyd was a corpse flower at Reiman Gardens that bloomed in May. Here are some facts about Stink Floyd from the Reiman Gardens website: Origins The corpse flower (Amorphophallus… Read More »Don’t Leave Me Now
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!
Today’s food adventure covers the travel day Andy and I had that began in Fort Dodge, Iowa and ended in Dublin, Ireland. I was going to do a thing where I calculated how much money I spent on food on this trip, but I didn’t do a very good job… Read More »Ireland – Travel Day
This is the final collection of images I took while walking around Austin with Lowell on a work trip there. When we concluded last Friday we were just getting ready to leave the Museum of the Weird. We will begin there and then take a walk down Austin’s famous Sixth… Read More »Austin Day 1: Sixth Street
In late October last year I made a trip over to Deal’s Orchard near Jefferson. I snapped a few photos. Have a looksie: The last few pictures were a picture of the stained glass flower that Jen made me for being in her wedding.
Last time we left off with Day 1 of my Austin trip we were in the Museum of the Weird. This second collection will also take place entirely in the Museum of the Weird as well. A museum I visited with Lowell. Here is the second collection of images: There… Read More »Austin Day 1: More Weirdo
This is kind of a 2 for 1 food adventure. Back in June I went on kind of a boredom road trip with no real destination in mind. In fact, I don’t know that I really went anywhere. My initial thought was maybe to go to Denison and the Donna… Read More »Big Pizza Pie: Humboldt Field Work