Time to share the rest of the images that were rejected for the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. Some of these are similar to ones included in the calendar. They come from a wide range of projects. From auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT to alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »2024 Photography 139 Calendar Rejects: The Ending
It is time to share the July image from the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar image. It is a picture taken with Rodan139 of somebody setting off fireworks on the 4th of July in my neighborhood. JULY I chose this image since I felt the fireworks represented the 4th of July… Read More »WPC – WEEK 433 – HUMANS
Time to share the May image for the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. It is a picture taken off of I-80 near the exit that takes you to the Amana Colonies: MAY I chose this picture for May because I usually put a picture in May that is a picture that… Read More »Liberty Bowl Trip Cell Phone Pictures
Another town festival I attended this year was the Stanhope Watermelon Day with Teresa. This first collection is of pictures I took wandering around before the festival really got started. Before the parade was started. Still plenty of pictures left to share from this trip.
This week’s food adventure is looking back on 2023’s edition of Taco Tailgate. If you have forgotten. Taco Tailgate is the annual tailgate event for an Iowa State football game where Jorge makes me tacos. He makes tacos for other people, but I think they are mostly for me. This… Read More »Taco Tailgate 2023
Time to finish off the March backlog. All of these images were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in one way or another. Some were for BLUE. Others were for COMPETITION. It feels good to have the March backlog cleared out. I don’t think April is ready for a backlog… Read More »Feel Sorry for Yourself
This is the second to last collection of auxiliary images from trips I made to harvest signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. I made this trip with Teresa. This collection starts where the last collection left off. Just outside of Bloomfield. The Dutchman’s Store is located in Cantril and I… Read More »Davis County Aux. – Vol. 3
I need to start this milestone post by wishing Elainie a happy birthday! Happy birthday Elainie! I hope your birthday is amazing!! +++++++ Today is also Layla’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAYLA! I hope you have an awesome birthday! +++++++ Can you believe that this is the 5,005th entry in the… Read More »Post 5,005
Time to start sharing the final collection of auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. The final county I harvested town signs from was Davis County. Teresa went on the final THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip. There are only 4 incorporated towns in Davis County, so there were stops… Read More »Davis County Aux. – Vol. 1
I got a chance to take Rodan139 out of the hangar recently to stretch its wings and check for a new firmware update that was rumored, but it was not there. I took it to Goeppinger Field to photograph some of the street art done by Boone High students for… Read More »Rodan139: Homecoming Art
Today is Sarah’s birthday so I need to say Happy birthday Sarah!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Weird thing is that the picture above was taken during the great solar eclipse debacle of 2017 and today there is a solar eclipse that you can see in a few parts of these United States.… Read More »Don’t You Think I Loved You Too Much to be Used and Discarded?
Time for another collection of images from my trip to Scott County to harvest their town signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. This collection was taken entirely in Davenport. Here is the fourth collection: Still one more collection of images from Scott County left to share. Then it will be… Read More »Scott County Aux. – Vol. 4
I took a ton of pictures on Saturday that are alternates for the BLACK & WHITE theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. So buckle up, this is going to be a long post. Even though most of these images can be broken into two different events. 1. Trip to Jester… Read More »But You Broke Much More Than That
Time to start sharing the auxiliary images from my trip to Scott County to harvest their town signs. Scott County was the second to last county I went to for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. It was a county I knew would be challenging cause of the Quad Cities, but it… Read More »Scott County Aux. – Vol. 1
I need to point out that today is the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States over 20 years ago. I think I’ve recounted my experience on 9/11 here before. I think it probably wasn’t much different than most people that didn’t live in an attacked city. Going… Read More »WPC – WEEK 417 – SHOES
Time for the final collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Dubuque County. The first few images in the collection are from the New Melleray Abbey. It is a monastery of Trappist Monks that supports themselves by making coffins. Yes. Coffins. Here is some information… Read More »Dubuque County Aux. – Vol. 4
I had forgotten that I had went back to Madrid after RAGBRAI had left their town and took a picture of the art that Madrid put on their streets to greet the RAGBRAI riders. I will get more into what Madrid and other towns did for RAGBRAI when I get… Read More »Rodan139: Madrid RAGBRAI Art
On the Tuesday of RAGBRAI I went to check out the festivities in Luther. I expected Luther to be empty by the time I got there and expected everybody to already be in Ames. But Luther was absolutely packed. I’m guessing the people at Whatcha Smokin’ must have made a… Read More »Rodan139: RAGBRAI East of Luther
During the Tuesday of RAGBRAI, Logan and I drove west to take some pictures of the riders making their way across Iowa. It had been several years since I’ve checked out RAGBRAI, but I had a great time or at least found so many great photo opportunities which is essentially… Read More »Rodan139: RAGBRAI West of Jefferson
Time for another collection of images from my road trip to Lee County and Van Buren County to harvest their town signs. All of these pictures are taken in Lee County. West Point West Point has a badass window painter. So I think this is badass. There are scores of… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 2
This final collection of images from Day 2 in Chicago start as I was doing a walkabout of Wrigley Field. When I was a kid I really loved baseball, but as an adult that love has really waned. I hate to say it, but baseball is boring and it takes… Read More »The Windy City: Day 2C